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People Search — Find Someone in Canada

Short answer

A Canadian people search locates a person using public records: telephone directory listings, corporate registry addresses, court filings, professional licensing registers, obituaries, and published directories. Sleuthify reconciles those into a single profile with a confidence score, and states plainly which sources matched and which contradicted each other.

Draws on 7 record sources, each named below with the statutory basis we rely on. See the list.

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Locating someone in Canada is harder than in the US

American people-search products lean on voter rolls, driver records, and commercially available credit header data — none of which is accessible in Canada. Canadian voter lists are not public, motor vehicle records are restricted by statute, and credit header data cannot be furnished except by a registered consumer reporting agency for a permitted purpose. What is left is registries, directories, and the open web. That is a narrower base, and honest Canadian people search means saying so rather than padding a report with speculation.

Identity resolution is the actual product

Finding fifty Robert Smiths is trivial. Determining which one is your Robert Smith is the work. We score every candidate on how many independent identifiers corroborate it — a matching middle initial, a shared address with a known associate, a date of birth consistent with a corporate filing — and surface the conflicts as loudly as the matches. A report that hides its ambiguity is worse than useless, because you will act on it.

The identifiers that actually change the outcome

Date of birth unlocks individual-debtor PPSA searches, which are otherwise unusable. A former address lets us anchor a name to a household in directory data. A middle name collapses a common-name search from hundreds of candidates to a handful. An employer or a professional designation opens licensing registries. This is why intake asks for so much: each additional identifier is not incremental, it is often the difference between a result and no result.

What you receive

In the report

Current and historical addresses appearing in public records, each dated and cited
Telephone directory listings, where the subscriber is listed
Name variants, aliases, and maiden names found in the record
Corporate registrations that place the person at an address on a date
Professional licensing status, which frequently carries a business address
Relatives and household members identifiable from public records
An explicit confidence score with the reasoning behind it

Honest limits

What people search canada will not tell you

Every item here is a structural limit of the Canadian record, not a paywall. Anyone promising you these is either misrepresenting what they have or describing something unlawful.

Mobile-only numbers do not appear in telephone directories
People with no corporate, court, or licensing footprint may be genuinely unfindable
Motor vehicle and voter records are not public in Canada
We will not release a located address where a protection order exists in either direction
Recent moves may not yet appear in any registry

7 connectors

Sources this search queries

Each source carries the paragraph of the Regulations Specifying Publicly Available Information that permits collecting from it without the subject's consent.

CACanada411 — Telephone Directory
Yellow Pages Canada
Lawful basisPublic telephone directorySOR/2001-7(a)
Public web form · No search fee
CACorporations Canada — Federal Corporation Search
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Public web form · No search fee
QCRegistraire des entreprises du Québec (REQ)
Gouvernement du Québec
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Public web form · No search fee
CANews archives and obituaries
Multiple publishers
Lawful basisPublished by the individualSOR/2001-7(e)
API · No search fee
INTLWeb search and fetch (Claude server-side tools)
Anthropic
Lawful basisPublished by the individualSOR/2001-7(e)
API · No search fee
CABusiness and professional directories
Multiple
Lawful basisProfessional or business directorySOR/2001-7(b)
Public web form · No search fee
ONOntario Personal Property Security Registration (PPSA)
ServiceOntario
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Paid account · 8.00 CAD per search

Every source we operate, with fees and coverage

Figures

Numbers worth quoting

Each figure carries its source and the date it was current.
Measure	Value	Source	As of
PIPEDA categories of information collectable without consent	5	Regulations Specifying Publicly Available Information, SOR/2001-7	2026

Registry fees and coverage change. Figures are stated as of the date shown, not as a standing guarantee.

Questions

people search canada — common questions

How can I find someone's current address in Canada?

Start with telephone directory listings, which remain one of the few lawfully searchable sources of residential addresses. Then check corporate registries, since a registered office is often a home address, and professional licensing registers, which frequently list a business address. Court filings and PPSA registrations also capture addresses as of a filing date. No single source is reliable alone, which is why cross-referencing and dating each hit matters more than volume.

Is it legal to look someone up in Canada without their knowledge?

Searching genuinely public records is lawful and requires no notice to the person. PIPEDA's Regulations Specifying Publicly Available Information permit collection from telephone directories, professional and business directories, statutory public registries, court records, and material the person published themselves. What is not permitted is scraping social media profiles, which the Privacy Commissioner addressed directly in the Clearview AI findings, or obtaining restricted records by pretext.

Why can't Canadian people search use driver's licence or voter records?

Both are restricted by statute. Provincial motor vehicle records may only be released for specific statutory purposes and generally not to private searchers, and Canadian voter lists are not public documents. This is the main structural difference between Canadian and American people search, and it is why Canadian results are narrower but also why they are lawfully obtained.

What if the person I'm looking for has no public records at all?

It happens, and we say so rather than manufacturing a result. Someone who rents, has a mobile-only phone, holds no professional licence, has never incorporated, and has never been to court leaves almost no public trace. In that situation the report tells you which sources were searched, that they returned nothing, and what identifier would most likely unlock a result if you can obtain it.

Can you find someone if I only know their name and city?

Sometimes, for an uncommon name. For a common one, a name and city typically produces too many candidates to resolve confidently, and the honest output is a candidate list rather than an answer. A date of birth, a middle name, a former address, or an employer usually converts an unresolvable search into a resolved one — the free scan will tell you which side of that line you are on before you pay.

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