Legal Entity Identifiers in the Canadian public record.
The LEI is a global identifier used in financial markets. entities.ca keeps it beside Canadian registry, licence and public-money evidence under one permanent CEID—then uses GLEIF Level 2 identifiers to map organisation relationships without guessing from names.
Evidence build: October 15, 2026 · Method gleif-canada-identity-v1
One global identifier, attached to a Canadian evidence graph.
An LEI is not the entities.ca identity and does not replace a corporation, charity or municipal licence number. It is one authoritative identifier on the canonical record. Where GLEIF reports the Corporations Canada registration authority, the federal number is joined exactly rather than through a company name.
That exact spine is commercially useful for counterparty mastering, vendor normalization, portfolio monitoring and cross-border data joins because the source key can change while the CEID remains permanent.
An issued LEI does not prove that every corporate registration, licence or operating location is current. A lapsed LEI is a maintenance state in the Global LEI System, not evidence that the company dissolved.
| Jurisdiction on the resolved record | Entities | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Canada (federal) | 28,870 | 49.3% |
| Ontario | 11,330 | 19.4% |
| British Columbia | 6,268 | 10.7% |
| Québec | 4,819 | 8.2% |
| Alberta | 3,589 | 6.1% |
| Manitoba | 826 | 1.4% |
| Saskatchewan | 564 | 1.0% |
| Nova Scotia | 537 | 0.9% |
| New Brunswick | 369 | 0.6% |
| Prince Edward Island | 69 | 0.1% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 66 | 0.1% |
| Northwest Territories | 3 | 0.0% |
| Yukon | 2 | 0.0% |
| GLEIF status | Entities | Meaning here |
|---|---|---|
| Issued | 27,279 | LEI registration maintained |
| Lapsed | 26,480 | GLEIF registration state; not a corporate-status conclusion |
| Retired | 3,327 | GLEIF registration state; not a corporate-status conclusion |
| Duplicate | 207 | GLEIF registration state; not a corporate-status conclusion |
| Annulled | 9 | GLEIF registration state; not a corporate-status conclusion |
| Pending archival | 5 | GLEIF registration state; not a corporate-status conclusion |
| Pending transfer | 5 | GLEIF registration state; not a corporate-status conclusion |
12,629 exact organisation relationships.
Each edge starts at an LEI already resolved to a published Canadian record. 10,133 also point to another LEI in this Canadian entity set; foreign targets retain their global LEI and source link. The feed is captured and validated for the next graph generation.
| GLEIF relationship | Canadian-subject rows |
|---|---|
| Fund manager | 6,617 |
| Ultimate accounting parent | 3,050 |
| Direct accounting parent | 2,824 |
| Parent fund | 119 |
| Feeder target | 10 |
| International branch head office | 9 |
Reproducible counts
The report scans the current published Gold records for LEIs, exact federal identifiers, other publishers and public-money intersections. Relationship counts scan the official GLEIF RR 2.1 Golden Copy and retain only rows whose subject LEI maps to a published Canadian CEID.
Built for systems, not a one-off chart
The same identifiers and typed edges can power entity resolution, portfolio monitoring, corporate-family navigation and versioned enterprise snapshots. See the data products or compare organisations in the analyst workspace.
- An LEI identifies a legal entity in the Global LEI System; it is not evidence that the entity is active in every other registry.
- GLEIF direct and ultimate parent relationships describe accounting consolidation, not every form of legal or beneficial ownership.
- Counts describe the entities.ca capture and resolution result, not the complete Canadian business population.
- A missing relationship may reflect a GLEIF reporting exception or unavailable data and does not prove that no parent exists.