# Canada (Alberta)

Company data from the Canada (Alberta) business register, through the Topograph API.

> **Beta**: this country is in early development. Some datapoints or documents may be missing, the integration may be unstable, prices may change without notice, and it is not covered by SLAs.

## Overview

Topograph reads Alberta Corporate Registry (Service Alberta) and Canada's Business Registries (federal and provincial search service) and returns the company profile of Canada (Alberta) companies through one API.

> **Info**
> **`CA-AB` covers entities registered in Alberta.** In Canada a company is incorporated either federally or in one province or territory, and each keeps its own register. `CA` on its own is not a jurisdiction: request the jurisdiction the company is registered in.
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> A federal corporation that registers in Alberta to do business there keeps its own record in [Canada (Federal)](https://www.topograph.co/countries/ca-fed). Its Alberta registration is returned here, flagged as such, with the federal corporation number and the Business Number to use with `countryCode: "CA-FED"`.

## Coverage

What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.

Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).

| Datapoint | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | No |
| Articles of association | No |
| Financials | No |
| UBO extract | No |

## Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

- **[Alberta Corporate Registry (Service Alberta)](https://www.alberta.ca/find-corporation-details)**: The Alberta Corporate Registry, part of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction, keeps the register of corporations, partnerships, cooperatives and non-profits formed or registered in Alberta. Corporate searches are issued by government-licensed registry agents; every incorporation and registration is published in the Registrar's Periodical.
- **[Canada's Business Registries (federal and provincial search service)](https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cbr-rec/)**: Canada's Business Registries is the joint search service of the federal, provincial and territorial business registers, run by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Each register updates it daily with the name, number, type, status and registration date of its business corporations and limited partnerships, and links a company's registrations across provinces.
- **[GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)](https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy/download-the-golden-copy)** (secondary): Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

## Identifiers

Request a company by its Corporate access number as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `CA-AB`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Canada (Alberta) reference

The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 3 |
| Search patterns | 3 |
| Quirks | 5 |
| Legal forms | 42 |
| Company statuses | 5 |
| Example responses | 5 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fca-ab
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fca-ab

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/ca-ab.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/ca-ab