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Canadian public records, province by province

Short answer

Canada has no national public records system. Each province runs its own corporate registry, court docket, land title system, and personal property register, with different search keys, fees, and gaps. British Columbia publishes party-name court search; Ontario does not. These pages document that asymmetry jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

4 provinces have a written coverage page. Every connector we operate is listed with its fee and its lawful basis.

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13 provinces and territories

Coverage status

Coverage means we have working connectors for that jurisdiction's registries — not that every record in it is online. Where a registry is counter-only, the report says which courthouse or land registry office would need a manual retrieval.

Every Canadian province and territory, with the privacy statute governing personal information about its residents.
JurisdictionCodeCoveragePrivacy statuteCoverage page
OntarioONFullPIPEDAOntario records
British ColumbiaBCFullBC PIPABritish Columbia records
AlbertaABFullAlberta PIPAAlberta records
QuebecQCPartialQuebec Law 25Quebec records
ManitobaMBPartialPIPEDANot yet written
SaskatchewanSKPartialPIPEDANot yet written
Nova ScotiaNSPartialPIPEDANot yet written
New BrunswickNBPartialPIPEDANot yet written
Newfoundland and LabradorNLPlannedPIPEDANot yet written
Prince Edward IslandPEPlannedPIPEDANot yet written
YukonYTPlannedPIPEDANot yet written
Northwest TerritoriesNTPlannedPIPEDANot yet written
NunavutNUPlannedPIPEDANot yet written
A “planned” jurisdiction is still searchable through federal registries, CanLII, and open-web sources — it simply has no provincial connectors yet.

Written coverage

What each province actually publishes

The differences are structural, not cosmetic. They decide what a search costs, how long it takes, and whether the question can be answered at all.

ontario public records search

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Ontario

Ontario public records searchable online include the Ontario Business Registry, PPSA registrations, writs of execution, and professional licensing registers. Ontario has no consolidated public civil court docket search and its land registry cannot be searched by owner name — two gaps that shape every Ontario records project.
Documented gaps
4
Privacy statute
PIPEDA (federal)

bc public records search

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British Columbia

British Columbia has the best public records access in Canada. Court Services Online offers genuine party-name search across Supreme and Provincial Court in both civil and criminal matters for about six dollars a file, BC Registries provides a real corporate search API, and the LTSA supports owner-name land title search.
Documented gaps
3
Privacy statute
BC Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)

quebec public records search

Partial

Quebec

Quebec has the most generous corporate registry in Canada. The Registraire des entreprises is free, name-searchable, and publishes shareholders as well as directors. Plumitifs provide party-name court docket search through SOQUIJ, and the registre foncier and RDPRM are both cheap and searchable.
Documented gaps
3
Privacy statute
Law 25 (Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector)

alberta public records search

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Alberta

Alberta's land titles system, SPIN2, supports owner-name search, making Alberta property research materially easier than Ontario's. Corporate searches route through authorised registry agents rather than a direct public portal, and court records are largely counter-based with no consolidated online docket.
Documented gaps
3
Privacy statute
Alberta Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)

No written coverage page yet for Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut. Searches in those jurisdictions run against federal registries, CanLII, and open-web sources, and the report states that limit explicitly rather than implying provincial coverage.

Cross-reference

Services, and how province choice changes them

An asset search in British Columbia is a lookup. The same search in Ontario is a research project, because the land registry has no owner-name index.

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