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This guide contains public integration notes for CA-QC, the enterprise register of Quebec. 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 (Quebec) coverage, pricing, and sources

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A company’s jurisdiction is where it was incorporated. In Canada a company is incorporated either federally or in one province or territory, and each keeps its own register. The Quebec register also records every federal and out-of-province corporation that does business in Quebec: such a record is a registration in Quebec, not a Quebec incorporation. CA-QC returns it as the Quebec register prints it, says in the legal form where the corporation was constituted, and, for a federal corporation, links it to its Canada (Federal) record when the link is unambiguous. CA on its own is not a jurisdiction.

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

Data Sources

Source	Role	What it provides
Registraire des entreprises du Québec, état de renseignements	Primary source for company data, directors and officers, shareholders and beneficial owners	Names, status, legal form and constituting act, head office, registration and constitution dates, economic activities, employees in Quebec, annual updates, directors and their offices, officers, partners, the three main shareholders, ultimate beneficiaries
Registraire des entreprises du Québec, open data	Search, and `company` in prefill mode	Every registered enterprise, active and struck off, with its names, status, legal form, head office, dates and employees in Quebec, published by the register twice a month. A new NEQ is looked up on the register itself
Corporations Canada	Supplementary	The federal corporation number and Business Number of a federal corporation registered in Quebec
GLEIF	Supplementary	Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), when one matches the NEQ

In verification mode (the default), company data, directors and officers, shareholders and beneficial owners are read live from the enterprise’s public record (its état de renseignements), so every request reflects the register as it stands. One read serves all four datapoints. In prefill mode, company is answered from the register’s open-data file instead, in about a second. Only company is offered in prefill mode: the open data names no person. See Prefill mode below.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Québec enterprise number (NEQ)	10 digits starting with `11` (legal persons), `22` (sole proprietorships), `33` (partnerships and associations) or `88` (some public bodies)	`1140710543`	Assigned by the Registraire des entreprises to every enterprise registered in Quebec, for life. `/v2/company` accepts it with spaces or hyphens.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`neq`	10 digits	`1140710543`	Every enterprise. Same value as `company.id`
`federalCorporationNumber`	Digits only, 4 to 8 digits	`4261607`	A federal corporation registered in Quebec, when Corporations Canada holds exactly one active corporation under the same name. Use it with `countryCode: "CA-FED"`
`businessNumber`	9 digits	`835752437`	With `federalCorporationNumber`, as Corporations Canada records it. The Quebec register does not publish the Business Number
`lei`	20 letters and digits		When GLEIF has a unique match

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

GLEIF is the supplementary data source for this identifier. company.identifiers.lei is returned when the NEQ has a unique match against a GLEIF record registered with the Registraire des entreprises. Coverage varies by entity; the field is omitted when no unambiguous match is available.

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Example	Match Type	Notes
By name	`Alimentation Couche-Tard`	Name	Legal names, versions in another language and every other name used in Quebec, current and former
By NEQ	`1140710543` or `1140 710 543`	`id`	Exact match

Search runs on the register’s open data, refreshed twice a month. An enterprise registered since the latest publication is found by NEQ (searched on the register itself, which takes longer) but not yet by name. /v2/company reads the register live in verification mode, and the same open data in prefill mode.

Search is free. Only company data retrieval is charged.

Active companies only

Search returns struck-off enterprises too. Each result carries the registration status, so activeOnly=true removes them.

Supported Entity Types

Entity type	Supported	Notes
Business corporations (société par actions)	Yes	Directors and officers, three main shareholders, beneficial owners
Federal and out-of-province corporations registered in Quebec	Yes	Flagged in the legal form; federal ones linked to `CA-FED` when unambiguous
Partnerships (general, limited, limited liability, undeclared)	Yes	Partners as owners; the partners who bind the partnership as representatives
Sole proprietorships	Yes	The person running the business as owner, representative and 100% beneficial owner. Searchable by trade name only
Non-profits, cooperatives, co-ownership syndicates, associations	Yes	Directors and officers. No shareholders
Struck-off enterprises	Yes	Reported as closed, with the date and the cause the register prints

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Prefill mode: open data, `company` only	In prefill mode, `company` comes from the register’s open data, published twice a month: names (with former names and versions in another language), status, legal form and where the enterprise was constituted, head office, registration and constitution dates, and employees in Quebec. It does not include economic activities, annual updates or the `CA-FED` link of a federal corporation. An enterprise registered since the latest publication, or a sole proprietorship without a trade name, ends as not found in prefill mode: request it in verification mode. `legalRepresentatives`, `shareholders` and `ultimateBeneficialOwners` are verification mode only.
A registration is not an incorporation	A federal corporation registered in Quebec has `legalForm.englishTranslation` “Business corporation, constituted under federal law (Canada) and registered in Quebec”. Its `incorporationDate` is the date it was constituted (federally); `registrationDate` is the date it was registered in Quebec. Its directors and beneficial owners filed in Quebec may differ from its federal record.
A struck-off registration is not a dissolution	For a corporation constituted outside Quebec, a struck-off status ends its registration in Quebec only: `closureReason` is `OTHER` and `additionalInfo` says so. Check its home jurisdiction for its existence.
Shareholders: the three largest, no percentages	A business corporation declares its three shareholders with the most votes, in order, and whether the first holds the majority. No percentage is published, so `sharePercentage` is not returned.
Beneficial owners: bands, since 2023	Ultimate beneficiaries have been declared and public since 31 March 2023. The register publishes a band (for example “more than 75% of the voting rights”), returned as `percentageRange`, separately for voting rights and fair market value.
Beneficial owners: empty lists are answers	`ultimateBeneficialOwners` succeeds with `[]` when the enterprise is exempt by law (reporting issuers, non-profits, financial institutions, co-ownership syndicates and others), has not declared yet, or declared only an enterprise the law treats as a natural person (a reporting issuer often declares itself).
Withheld home addresses	A person can ask the register to withhold their home address and publish a professional address instead. Only a published home address is returned, as `residenceAddress`.
One representative per office	A director who is also president is returned twice: once as `Director`, once as `President`.
Several names	The legal name, its version in another language and the other names used in Quebec (trade names, often many) are returned in `commercialNames`; former names in `legacyLegalNames` and `legacyCommercialNames`.
Activity codes in the description	The register classifies enterprises with its own economic activity codes. They are returned in `activityDescription` (code and label), not yet as structured activity codes.
Employees in Quebec only	`employeeCount` is the band the enterprise declares for its employees in Quebec.
Annual updates	`statutoryFilings.annualFiling` gives the year of the last annual update and the deadline of the next one, as the register prints them. Whether a filing is overdue is not derived.
No documents yet	Copies of filed documents and certificates are ordered from the register and delivered manually. They are not offered yet.

Mappings

Company Status

The register publishes a registration status. When it prints a cause after it (“Radiée d’office suite à une dissolution volontaire”), the cause is kept in status.statusDetails.additionalInfo and refines the closure reason.

Local Status	Meaning	`active`	Standardized Status
Immatriculée	Registered	`true`	`ACTIVE`
Radiée d’office	Struck off by the register	`false`	`CLOSED` (administrative dissolution, or the printed cause)
Radiée d’office (article 59)	Struck off under section 59 of the Act	`false`	`CLOSED`
Radiée sur demande	Struck off on request	`false`	`CLOSED` (voluntary)
Non immatriculée	In the register without a registration (mostly public bodies)		`UNKNOWN`
Avis d’intention de constitution	Notice filed before a constitution	`false`	`INACTIVE_NOT_CLOSED`

Legal Forms

Local Form	Standardized
Société par actions ou compagnie	Corporation
Personne morale sans but lucratif, Association, Société de secours mutuel, Syndicat professionnel	Nonprofit Organization
Coopérative	Cooperative
Société en nom collectif, Société en commandite, Société en nom collectif à responsabilité limitée, Société en participation, Société non constituée au Québec	Partnership
Entreprise individuelle	Sole Proprietorship
Mutuelle d’assurances, Syndicat de copropriété, Groupement de personnes, Autre	Other

Roles

Local Role	Standardized
Administrateur	Director
Président	President
Vice-président	Vice President
Secrétaire	Secretary
Trésorier	Treasurer
Directeur général	Chief Executive Officer
Principal dirigeant (with the title the enterprise gave)	Other
Associé	Partner
Commandité	General Partner
Fondé de pouvoir	Authorized Signatory
Administrateur du bien d’autrui	Administrator
Personne physique exploitant l’entreprise individuelle	Owner

A principal officer and a function the enterprise wrote in its own words keep the printed title in role.localName. When that title names a standard office (for example “Chef de la direction financière”), role.standardized is that office (Chief Financial Officer) instead of Other.

Data Availability

Datapoint	Available	Notes
`company`	Yes	Live from the register in verification mode; from the register’s open data (twice a month) in prefill mode
`legalRepresentatives`	Yes	Directors with their offices, officers, binding partners, sole proprietors, attorneys. Verification mode only
`shareholders`	Yes	Three main shareholders of a business corporation, or the partners of a partnership. Not applicable to sole proprietorships and non-profits
`ultimateBeneficialOwners`	Yes	Declared since 31 March 2023
Documents	Not yet	Ordered from the register and delivered manually

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Canada (Quebec) coverage, pricing, and sources

Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

Search Capabilities

Active companies only

Supported Entity Types

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Company Status

Legal Forms

Roles

Data Availability

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Canada (Quebec) coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

​Search Capabilities

​Active companies only

​Supported Entity Types

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Company Status

​Legal Forms

​Roles

​Data Availability

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

Search Capabilities

Active companies only

Supported Entity Types

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Company Status

Legal Forms

Roles

Data Availability