# Canada (Nova Scotia)

Company data from the Canada (Nova Scotia) 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 Registry of Joint Stock Companies (Nova Scotia) and returns the company profile and legal representatives of Canada (Nova Scotia) companies through one API.

> **Info**
> **`CA-NS` covers the 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.
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> A federal corporation that registers in Nova Scotia to do business there keeps its own record in [Canada (Federal)](https://www.topograph.co/countries/ca-fed). Its Nova Scotia registration is returned here, flagged as an extra-provincial registration with its home jurisdiction, never as a Nova Scotia incorporation.
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> `CA` on its own is not a jurisdiction. It is only a search scope that covers every Canadian register.

## Coverage

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

Every request is a full register read, in verification mode.

| Datapoint | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |
| Legal representatives | 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.

- **[Registry of Joint Stock Companies (Nova Scotia)](https://rjsc.novascotia.ca/)**: The Registry of Joint Stock Companies (RJSC) keeps the register of companies, cooperatives, partnerships and business names formed or registered in Nova Scotia.
- **[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 Nova Scotia registry ID as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `CA-NS`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Canada (Nova Scotia) 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 | 2 |
| Quirks | 8 |
| Legal forms | 16 |
| Officer roles | 14 |
| Company statuses | 7 |
| Example responses | 5 |

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

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/ca-ns.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-ns