# Canada (Quebec)

Company data from the Canada (Quebec) 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 Registraire des entreprises du Québec (enterprise register) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, shareholders and ultimate beneficial owners of Canada (Quebec) companies through one API.

> **Info**
> **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.
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> 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 links a federal corporation to its [Canada (Federal)](https://www.topograph.co/countries/ca-fed) record when the link is unambiguous.
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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.

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

| Datapoint | Returned | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |  |
| Legal representatives | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |
| Shareholders | Partly | Comes back in Verify. |
| Ultimate beneficial owners | Partly | Comes back in Verify. |

| 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.

- **[Registraire des entreprises du Québec (enterprise register)](https://www.quebec.ca/entreprises-et-travailleurs-autonomes/obtenir-renseignements-entreprise/recherche-registre-entreprises/acceder-registre-entreprises)**: The Registraire des entreprises du Québec keeps the enterprise register of Quebec: every legal person constituted in Quebec, and every enterprise, including out-of-province corporations, that is domiciled or carries on activities there, with its directors, officers, main shareholders and ultimate beneficiaries.
- **[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
- **[Corporations Canada (federal corporations register)](https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/corporations-canada/en)** (secondary): Corporations Canada keeps the register of corporations incorporated under a federal act. It is used to link the Quebec record of a federal corporation to its federal record.

## Identifiers

Request a company by its Québec enterprise number (NEQ) as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `CA-QC`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Canada (Quebec) 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 | 4 |
| Search patterns | 2 |
| Quirks | 12 |
| Legal forms | 16 |
| Officer roles | 17 |
| Company statuses | 6 |
| Example responses | 7 |

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

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