Database Search - Field Help

The system performs searches on fields such as Creditor Name or Debtor Name with the order of the words within the field not being important. For example, if you want to search for a creditor with the name 'David Smith', in the query screen, both 'Smith David' and 'David Smith' will return the same result. Our system is not case sensitive and will return the same results with or without French accent characters. So 'credit' and 'Crédit' are both acceptable. A wild card character % can also be used when you are not sure of the precise spelling, i.e.'inc%' will return any record with 'incorporated', 'incorporation', 'inc.', 'incorp.', etc.

Creditor Name: The name of the creditor or the creditor business name.

Creditor Name Type:  Either business, individual or all (both individual and business).

Province:  The province of the last known address of the creditor. A list of all provinces and territories in Canada is provided. For a foreign address, please select 'Other'. For all records, please select 'ALL'.

Country:  The country of the last known address of the creditor. It can be either Canada, U.S. or Other (for countries other than Canada and U.S).

Unclaimed Dividend Amount Larger than:  A monetary field where you can put in an amount to perform a search for any significant unclaimed dividends. By default, this field is set for $30.00.

Debtor Name:  The name of the individual or business that filed the bankruptcy or proposal.

New Records Since:  The date of the last weekly update of the database.

UD Amount:  The amount of the unclaimed dividend(s) recorded in our database.

Estate Number:  The OSB unique estate file number that identifies the bankruptcy file in our database.

Claim Number:  The unique claim identification number in order to facilitate the claim.