Incorporating in Canada Resources

Online General Guides and Advice Government of Ontario Business Resources Industry Canada online Resources In-Person Help Ontario Small Business Enterprise Centre and community-based provider locations Private Sector Service Providers Business Structure Canada Business Network: Corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship? Canada Business Ontario: Business Structure: Which One is Right for You? Ontario Legal: Which Entity is…

Incorporating in Canada 4: Submitting Articles of Incorporation and Deciding Share Provision Structure

This post is part of a series on my story incorporating in Canada. Armed with the name pre-approval or even just a NUANS Name Search report (or neither if you are going for a numbered corporation), it is time to start the incorporation registration. Head over to the federal online system. Before clicking on incorporate…

Incorporating in Canada 3: NUANS Name Search and Pre-Approval

This post is part of a series on my story incorporating in Canada. Regardless of whether you decide to incorporate provincially or federally, you will still have to perform a NUANS Name search, (unless you want a numbered corporation i.e. without a name, in which case this whole step can be skipped as the government…

Incorporating in Canada 2: Incorporating Federally or Provincially?

This post is part of a series on my story incorporating in Canada. After deciding that we wanted to proceed with registering a corporation we then had to make the decision between registering provincially (in Ontario) or registering federally (with the federal government of Canada). Again there were some differences to keep in mind. Provincial…

Incorporating in Canada 1: Deciding on Business Structure – Corporation or Not

This post is part of a series on my story incorporating in Canada. Once you decide on starting a business, after, hopefully, careful consideration and thought, one of the first things you will want to do is register with the government, which means you need to decide on a business structure: Sole Proprietorship Partnership Corporation…