Corporations Canada
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Start a business
Benefits of incorporating
Discover the difference between provincial and federal incorporation.
How to name your federal business?
There are two ways to name your corporation (numbered or word name). Which one is best for you?
Learn about incorporating and how to organize your corporation
- Start federal incorporation
- Create a not-for-profit corporation
- Learn about directors and officers
- Find out more on the share structure and shareholders
- Register your federal corporation in a province or a territory
Already incorporated
Keep your corporation in good shape
5 simple things that need to be updated to keep your incorporation status
Individuals with significant control
Learn if you have to create your register and what information to record.
All you need to maintain your federal corporation up-to-date
Registered intermediary
Being a registered intermediary
What we are doing
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Services
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