British Columbia (CA)
How to use Kausate in British Columbia (CA) — what you can call, which identifiers it uses, and which documents you can order
New to the API? Start with the jurisdictions overview, which explains how ordering, identifiers and documents work everywhere.
Company data here comes directly from BC Registries and OrgBook BC.
One of the jurisdictions under Canada, whose page lists the others and covers the national register separately.
What you can call here
What each operation does is the same everywhere and is explained on the jurisdictions overview.
| Operation | Status |
|---|---|
| Autocomplete | Coming soon |
| Company search | Live |
| Company report Includes: Registered details, Legal representatives and Shareholders. | Live |
| Beneficial owners | Coming soon |
| List documents | Live |
| Retrieve a document | Live |
| Prefill | Coming soon |
How to search
Start with company search and jurisdictionCode: "ca-bc". Pass the name as companyName, a registration number as companyNumber, or both to narrow the result. Here companyNumber is read as registrationNumber.
Fields
To say exactly what you mean, send an advancedQuery instead. British Columbia (CA) understands these fields:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
name | Business name to search for. |
registrationNumber | BC Registries incorporation or registration number, e.g. BC0578072 or FM0823758. |
businessNumber | CRA business number (9 digits, or the 15-character program account). |
Examples
{ "jurisdictionCode": "ca-bc", "advancedQuery": { "name": "Lululemon Athletica" }}British Columbia (CA) also accepts registrationNumber and businessNumber.
Company identifiers
Search by passing the registration number as companyNumber — it is matched against the schemes this register can search on, so you do not name the scheme yourself. Not every scheme below is searchable; the rest label the values returned in a company’s identifiers.
| Identifier | Appears as | Format |
|---|---|---|
| British Columbia Incorporation / Registration Number Identifier BC Registries assigns every entity: a legal-type prefix and seven digits (BC0578072 for a BC company, FM0823758 for a sole proprietorship or partnership, A0012345 for an extraprovincial company, C1234567 for a continued-in company, S0012345 for a society, CP0001234 for a cooperative, LP0123456 for a limited partnership). | ca_bc_registration_number | ^[A-Z]{1,3}[0-9]{7}$ |
Documents you can order
| Document | Status |
|---|---|
| CA-BC Business Summary and Filed Document The British Columbia Business Summary (offices, directors, officers, status) or any filing PDF of the entity's ledger — incorporation application, notices of articles, annual reports, changes of directors and of address and more — identified by a kausateDocumentId from the document list. Delivered as the registry's own PDF. Filings the registry holds on paper only are not listed. | Live |
| CA-BC Certificate of Good Standing Certificate of Good Standing issued on demand by the BC Registrar of Companies for an active British Columbia company in good standing. | Live |
| CA-BC Certificate of Status Certificate of Status issued on demand by the BC Registrar, attesting the entity's status on the British Columbia register as of the date of issue. | Live |
These are filings whose availability differs per company: call list documents first and order the ID it returns.
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