A brand-new company is a brand-new buyer. The week a business incorporates, it starts shopping for banking, insurance, accounting, payroll, a website, and software. If you sell any of that B2B, a feed of just-incorporated companies is one of the highest-intent lead sources there is.
The good news: Corporations Canada publishes the entire federal register as open data, updated daily. This post shows how to turn it into a fresh-incorporations lead feed — the files, the one field that matters, and a hosted option you can call from code or an AI agent.
The source
The Federal Corporations dataset on Canada's Open Government Portal (Open Government Licence) covers every federal corporation created under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA), plus not-for-profits, cooperatives and boards of trade. As of 2026 it's split into four CSV subsets — active/inactive × business/other — and the files are refreshed daily.
The one you want for lead-gen is Active business corporations (corporations-active-cbca-en.csv). Its columns:
