Canada (Nova Scotia)

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This guide contains public integration notes for CA-NS, the Nova Scotia register. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and register-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, legal forms, roles, and status values is the pricing page.

Canada (Nova Scotia) coverage, pricing, and sources

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CA-NS covers entities registered in Nova Scotia. In Canada a company is incorporated either federally or in one province or territory, and each keeps its own register. A federal corporation that registers in Nova Scotia to do business there keeps its own record in Canada (Federal): its Nova Scotia registration is returned here flagged as such (a branch registration, with its home jurisdiction), never as a Nova Scotia incorporation. CA on its own is not a jurisdiction.

Data Sources
Company Identifiers
Search Capabilities
Supported Entity Types
Quirks & Gotchas
Data Availability

Data Sources

Source	Role	What it provides
Registry of Joint Stock Companies (RJSC Connect)	Primary source for search, company data and legal representatives	Registered name, former and trade names, entity type, status and its date, registration date, registered office, directors, officers with the office held, partners
Canada’s Business Registries	Supplementary	Business Number of Nova Scotia records
GLEIF	Supplementary	Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), when one matches the registry ID

Search, company data and legal representatives are read live from the public record of the Registry of Joint Stock Companies, so every request reflects the register as it stands. One read serves both datapoints. A read takes up to a minute, so company data is available in verification mode only, not in onboarding mode.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Registry ID	7 digits	`3023784`	Assigned by the Registry of Joint Stock Companies (“Reg. Number”). Spaces are ignored.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`registryId`	7 digits	`3023784`	All entities. Same value as `company.id`
`businessNumber`	9 digits (the BN root)	`104902135`	When the register publishes it on Canada’s Business Registries
`lei`	20 letters and digits		When GLEIF has a unique match

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Example	Match Type	Notes
By name	`Sobeys`	Name	Every entity whose name contains the words, at most 50 results, exact matches and active entities first
By registry ID	`3023784`	`id`	Exact match

Search is free. Only company data retrieval is charged.

Active companies only

Search returns inactive entities too (struck off, revoked, amalgamated, dissolved). Each result carries the register’s status, so activeOnly=true removes the closed ones. A registration revoked less than a year ago can still be reinstated and is kept.

Supported Entity Types

Entity type	Supported	Notes
Limited companies, unlimited companies (ULC), private investment holding companies	Yes	Company data, directors and officers
Co-operatives, societies	Yes	Company data, directors and officers
Partnerships, limited partnerships, sole proprietorships	Yes	Company data; partners (people or corporations)
Nova Scotia registrations of federal, other-province or foreign corporations	Flagged	Returned as an extra-provincial registration with its home jurisdiction; directors and officers as filed in Nova Scotia
Business names and name reservations	No	Trade names and reservations are not entities; a company’s active business names are returned as its trade names

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Extra-provincial registrations	A corporation incorporated federally or in another province also has a Nova Scotia registry ID. Its legal form is the extra-provincial type (`Extra-provincial Corporation Federal`, standardized as `Corporation`), it carries no incorporation date, and `status.statusDetails.additionalInfo` names its home jurisdiction (`CA-FED` for a federal corporation).
Officers and their offices	Officers hold one of the register’s offices (President, Vice-president, Secretary, Treasurer) or an office in the filer’s own words, returned as typed (`EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER`) with the standardized role read from the title. A person with two offices appears once per office.
No addresses for people	The register publishes no address for directors and officers.
The recognized agent is not returned	The person or firm that accepts service in Nova Scotia is not a legal representative.
No shareholders, no beneficial owners	The register publishes neither. Nova Scotia companies keep their register of individuals with significant control themselves.
No activity codes	The register records no industry classification.

Data Availability

Datapoint	Available	Notes
`company`	Yes	Live from the register
`legalRepresentatives`	Yes	Directors, officers and partners, live from the register
`shareholders`	No	Not published
`ultimateBeneficialOwners`	No	Not public
Documents	Not yet	Filed documents and profile reports are sold by the register

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