Canada (Prince Edward Island)

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This guide contains public integration notes for CA-PE, the Prince Edward Island register. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, legal forms, roles, and status values is the pricing page.

Canada (Prince Edward Island) coverage, pricing, and sources

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CA-PE covers entities formed or registered in Prince Edward Island. A federal corporation registered in the province is a Canada (Federal) company: use countryCode: "CA-FED" and its corporation number for the company itself. CA on its own is not a jurisdiction.

Data Sources

Source	Role	What it provides
Corporate/Business Names Registry (Prince Edward Island)	Primary, read live	Search, the entity record (company data, directors and officers)

The register keeps two systems: its current one, and the original one, which still holds non-profit corporations and co-operative associations and the records made before the register moved. We read both and return one record per entity.

Company Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Registration number (`registrationNumber`)	1 to 6 digits	`15854`	The register’s own number, kept in the company identifiers. Current records use their printed Business Number as the company id.
Business Number (`businessNumber`)	9 digits	`102535762`	Issued by the Canada Revenue Agency and printed by the register. A trade name is printed as its owner’s Business Number, a hyphen and its own registration number (`102535762-130724`).

Search and company data use the printed Business Number as the id for current records, including the registration suffix for a trade name. The native registration number remains in the company identifiers. Non-profit corporations, co-operatives and older records use their registration number as the id.

Search Capabilities

Search is live, by name, registration number or Business Number. A name search covers both systems of the register and lists corporations, co-operatives, non-profits, partnerships, sole proprietorships, trade names and extra-provincial registrations, active and inactive. A Business Number search returns the business and the trade names registered under it. Each system returns at most 20 matches, exact names first. Rarely, a search can take up to a minute.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Prefill and verification read the same record	`company` and `legalRepresentatives` are read live from the register in both modes, and the answer is the same. A prefill request usually takes a few seconds. Rarely, the register cannot be reached within the time limit of prefill mode: the request then fails with a retryable `source_unavailable` error. Retry after a minute, or use verification mode, which waits for the register.
People	Directors and officers are returned by name, with the office as filed. The owner of a sole proprietorship is returned as owner. The register prints the partners of a partnership and the owner of a trade name as bare names, without saying whether each is a person or a company: they are not returned.
Extra-provincial registrations	Returned as registrations, with their home jurisdiction in the status details. A corporation incorporated under federal law is pointed to Canada (Federal).
Former records	A corporation that moved to the current system is read there. When its current record cannot be matched, the original record is returned with its status explained.
Unknown number	If the register has no entity with the number, the request ends as not found and is not charged.

Data Availability

Datapoint	Available	Notes
`company`	Yes, live (prefill and verification)	Name, former and trade names, type, status, registration date, address, nature of business
`legalRepresentatives`	Yes, live (prefill and verification)	Directors and officers, or the owner of a sole proprietorship
`shareholders`	No	The register prints shareholder names on some records, without holdings
`ultimateBeneficialOwners`	No	No public register
Documents	No	The register issues no downloadable document; its record is returned as company data

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