Federal corporation
EXFO Inc.
CA-E-4XYZ-F8V8ActiveCanada (federal)QuébecQUEBEC4 independent sources
$16.5MPublic money on record
1,800Employees reported
4Independent publishers
95/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-4XYZ-F8V8
- Address
- 400 Godin Avenue, Québec, QC, G1M 2K2
- Earliest record
- September 18, 1985
- Also known as
- EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc.
Identifiers held
- Business number
- 102487287
- Corporation number
- 1330375-6
- Corporation number
- 13303756
- Corporation number
- 197586-2
- Corporation number
- 1975862
- Legal Entity Identifier
- 549300NZ7SG77DGFZD61
- Legal Entity Identifier
- 8945004SLU7EKVDKZU14
- neq
- 1144343382
- yul-supplier
- 117136
Who controls this corporation. Federal corporations must file their Individuals with Significant Control with Corporations Canada. That register is not redistributed here — it can only be searched by corporation name or number, by design, so it cannot become a lookup by a person’s name. Search it directly for corporation number 1330375-6: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
Global legal identity. This organisation carries a Legal Entity Identifier in the GLEIF system. The LEI is evidence attached to this entities.ca record; it does not replace the permanent Canadian Entity Identifier. Open the GLEIF source record.
Québec keeps a fuller record than this one. The Registre des entreprises publishes each registered business’s directors, officers and ultimate beneficiaries — the ownership question no federal source answers in bulk. It is not reproduced here: it is published under a licence forbidding commercial use and requiring derivatives to carry the same terms, which this project will not impose on the open data it is joined to. Search it directly: Registre des entreprises du Québec. Why it is not used here.
Evidence depth
95/100
Deep recordThis scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.
Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates
Public footprint · version 1
Where this organisation appears in public records
Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.
Footprint is not performance.
A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.
Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
100
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
40
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
78
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
0
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
81
Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.
Registrations
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) | Canada Business Corporations Act | 13303756 | September 1, 2021 | Active |
| Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) | Canada Business Corporations Act | 1975862 | September 18, 1985 | Inactive — Inactive - Amalgamated |
| Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | Legal Entity Identifier | 549300NZ7SG77DGFZD61 | April 5, 2014 | INACTIVE — LEI RETIRED · GLEIF FULLY_CORROBORATED |
| Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | Legal Entity Identifier | 8945004SLU7EKVDKZU14 | October 1, 2025 | ACTIVE — LEI ISSUED · GLEIF FULLY_CORROBORATED |
Public money on record
Federal contracts
$643,042
across 14 awards, 2016–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Services Canada | 6 | $447,638 |
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 3 | $113,359 |
| National Research Council Canada | 4 | $66,640 |
| National Defence | 1 | $15,405 |
Federal grants and contributions
$15,900,000
across 1 agreement, 2021–2021
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 1 | $15,900,000 |
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Qualified to supply the government (1)
| Commodity | Buying department | Agreement type | Awarded | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | Société par actions/Corporations/Compagnie | — | — |
This is a different fact from public money above: a standing offer or supply arrangement means the government has pre-agreed to buy specific goods or services from this organisation at set terms if it chooses to — it does not mean any money has changed hands. The source publishes only currently active agreements and carries no dollar figure at all, unlike the contract value field, which sometimes states a ceiling rather than a payment. How this is attached.
What it does
- Industry code
- 339900North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
- Federal contract — Shared Services Canada$51,047
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$14,276
- Registered — Legal Entity Identifier
- Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$15,731
- Federal contract — Shared Services Canada$24,469
- Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$15,656
- Registered — Canada Business Corporations Act
- Federal contract — Shared Services Canada$12,222
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$15,900,000
- Federal contract — National Defence$15,405
- Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$12,459
- Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$22,794
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$15,201
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$83,882
- Federal contract — Shared Services Canada$34,889
- Federal contract — Shared Services Canada$55,472
- Federal contract — Shared Services Canada$269,538
- Registered — Legal Entity Identifier
- Registered — Canada Business Corporations Act
Why this is one record
6 public datasets from 4 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.
- Shares business number 102487287asserted by Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
- Same name and postal code G1M 2K2asserted by Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
- Same name and address — 400 godin, quebec, QCasserted by Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.
Where this record comes from
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 1, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Federal corporations — active business corporations Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada | October 24, 2026 | P1D | 11 captures · 10 comparisons | due |
| Federal corporations — inactive and dissolved business corporations Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada | October 24, 2026 | P1D | 9 captures · 8 comparisons | due |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Global LEI Index — Canadian legal entities Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) · Public Domain — CC0 1.0 Universal | October 24, 2026 | P1D | 5 captures · 4 comparisons | due |
| Montréal suppliers Ville de Montréal · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.
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