# How to read a record — Canadian corporations that filed an intent to dissolve

> What the record is, what the status means, and what is left out.

## How to read these records

### Which corporations

Business corporations under the Canada Business Corporations Act whose current status is “Active - Intent to
Dissolve Filed”. Not-for-profit corporations, cooperatives and numbered companies are left out, and so are schools,
health and care providers.

### What the status means

The corporation still exists. It has told Corporations Canada that it will wind up: it pays its debts, distributes
what remains, and then asks for its certificate of dissolution. Until then, its directors still act for it.

### What the record does not say

Why the corporation is closing, who is winding it up, and how many people it employed.

### What is not here

Names of directors or any individual. Street addresses. Corporations already dissolved.

**Director of a corporation that is winding up?**

The internal data of a company that employed 50 people or more (Slack or Microsoft Teams archive, documentation, project histories) may still have value after it has stopped operating.

[Check whether this company’s data qualifies →](/pro.md) We are paid by the buyer if a partnership is signed, never by the company. Whether personal data in those archives can be transferred is a legal question for whoever controls them. Not affiliated with Corporations Canada.

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Fonte: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/0032ce54-c5dd-4b66-99a0-320a7b5e99f2
Recolha: 2026-10-14