Incorporate in Canada a NUANS Canadian corporation for incorporation and provincial incorporation by using Corporation Centre as an incorporator for any Canada jurisdiction of incorporation. Federal Canadian corporation, incorporate pursuant to the Canada Business Corporations Act and have the right to carry on business anywhere in Canada under their small business Canada registered corporate name NUANS, subject to registration requirements in each province. Provincial corporations incorporate (e.g. incorporate in Ontario) pursuant to the applicable provincial corporate law, and have the right to carry on business within the province of incorporation. (i.e. an Ontario Corporation can only carry on business within the Province of Ontario). Provincial corporations can however make an extra-provincial registration to carry on business in another province or provinces if they are within the small business Canada brackets (i.e. if an Ontario corporation wants to set up offices in Alberta it could apply to the Province of Alberta for registration as an extra-provincial corporation in Alberta).

Small Business in Canada can start a business to incorporate in Canada by incorporating or registering a business name registration. These incorporation options are available to small business owners across Canada, including all the provinces, namely, Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and all others. The small business start-ups in Canada can use Corporation Centre.ca to incorporate in Canada their business in an easy and simple way. We handle all the paperwork so that the small business owners can better manage and grow their business. Start a small business in Canada today by using Corporation Centre.ca - Canada's leading incorporation website.

Incorporate a federally incorporated corporation under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA), and you will be afforded protection for corporate names for all small business Canada (NUANS). Once you incorporate in Canada as a corporation, no other corporation may use that corporate name or a confusing name for their incorporation in Canada. This federal corporate name protection is second only to trademark protection in terms of its scope and effectiveness for protecting small business Canada names (NUANS). Because of the scope of corporate name protection provided under the Canada Business Corporations Act CBCA, proposed corporate names are thoroughly scrutinized by the federal Corporations Directorate according to strict name granting guidelines. As a result, many names that would be acceptable for corporate registration provincially are rejected by the Corporations Directorate as being too vague or non-descriptive for the small business Canada.

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Incorporate a Provincial incorporation will only provide corporate name protection within the province (i.e. Ontario) of incorporation. As a result, if an individual incorporates "123 Corporation" in Ontario another person could incorporate "123 Corporation" in British Columbia at a later date. If you are only intending on operating your Canadian corporation within one province, this should not be an issue for you to be concerned. If you incorporate a provincial small business Canada incorporation and then register the corporation extra-provincially in another province later on, you may be disappointed to find out that your corporate name, or a similar one, has already been registered in the other province, and you will have to choose a new name for the other province.

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Before submitting a proposed small business Canada corporate name to the government for approval, the name must be searched using the Newly Upgraded Automated Name Search ("NUANS") system.

A NUANS report must then be submitted with the Articles of Incorporation (unless you are incorporating a numbered company in which case a NUANS report is not required) to demonstrate that there are no identical or deceptively similar names already registered in the jurisdiction you want to incorporate in. A NUANS report consists of three pages of registered trade names and two pages of trademarks similar to the proposed name.

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Specific types of NUANS searches are completed depending on the desired jurisdiction of incorporation. For federal incorporation, a "Canada-biased" report is required. For an Ontario incorporation, an Ontario report must be obtained. If it is likely that in the future, a corporation will apply to carry on business in a jurisdiction other than the jurisdiction of incorporation, it is recommended that a NUANS report for that jurisdiction be obtained for the proposed corporate name as well so that the incorporator has advanced knowledge of any potential problems with the proposed name.

For federal corporations, the Corporations Directorate offers a NUANS name pre-clearance service. If an incorporator is unsure of the suitability of a particular name, he or she may forward a NUANS report for that name to the Corporations Directorate in Ottawa in advance of filing the Articles of Incorporation for a name decision. If the proposed name is accepted, it is reserved while the Articles of Incorporation are prepared (the name reservation lasts for a maximum of ninety days). If the name is not accepted, the incorporator has saved the time and effort of submitting useless names that will not be approved by NUANS.