Canadian · Business compliance
Incorporation fees, federal and provincial.
The government filing fee to incorporate a numbered corporation — before any name search, registry-agent charge, or legal fee. Every province runs its own registry with its own fee, and federal is nearly always the cheapest single option.
Federal (Corporations Canada) is $200 online — the cheapest confirmed option. British Columbia is $380 including its mandatory name-approval fee. Several provincial figures below are secondary-sourced or flagged unconfirmed; check the table.
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Every jurisdiction's fee
The figure in this table is the one-time filing fee to create the corporation — it isn't the only government fee a corporation ever pays. Federal corporations must also file a $12 annual return with Corporations Canada every year to stay in good standing, separate from any provincial or CRA filing; miss enough consecutive years and Corporations Canada can dissolve the corporation outright. Every province and territory runs the equivalent requirement under its own name (an "annual report," "annual filing," etc.) and its own small recurring fee, rather than repeating the incorporation charge itself.
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Sources, read 25 September 2026: Federal (ised-isde.canada.ca "Services, fees and processing times", loaded directly) and British Columbia (BC Corporate Online's own fee schedule, loaded directly) are confirmed against a primary government fee schedule this session. Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nunavut are shown with a specific figure but flagged — corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources rather than a primary schedule loaded directly this session (in Alberta's case, a conflicting $291.75 claim is also disclosed). Nova Scotia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories are unconfirmed: Nova Scotia's own regulation text loaded directly shows a $43.60 figure that is almost certainly stale next to every secondary estimate, Yukon's fee page could not be reached this session, and Northwest Territories sources conflict outright — no number is asserted for any of the three.
Frequently asked questions
Is federal always cheaper than provincial?
Among confirmed and flagged figures here, yes — federal's $200 online fee undercuts every provincial fee shown. But incorporating federally doesn't avoid provincial registration: a federal corporation doing business in a province still typically has to register extra-provincially there, which carries its own (usually smaller) fee.
Does this include a name search?
No. Every figure above is the bare incorporation filing fee for a numbered company. A named corporation almost always needs a separate NUANS name-search report (commonly $30–$80), which is not included.
Why are some fees not confirmed?
Several provincial registries publish their fee tables only inside a PDF or behind a page this tool could not load directly this session, and in Nova Scotia's case the regulation text that WAS loaded gave an implausibly low number. Rather than guess, those entries are shown as unconfirmed or explicitly flagged so you know to verify with the registry before relying on the figure.
Government filing fee only — not total cost, not legal advice
These are base government registry fees for a numbered corporation only. Real total incorporation cost is typically higher once a name search, registry-agent service fee, or legal/accounting help is added. Fee schedules change by regulation on no fixed timetable. Confirm the current figure with the jurisdiction's own corporate registry before relying on it, especially for any entry marked "flagged" or "unconfirmed" above.