Corporate Name Searches for an Ontario Incorporation

A) NUANS Search Reports

Unlike the federal government, the Ontario government does not 'approve' your name before permitting you to register the corporation. Thus, you are very much on your own. However, they do require that you provide them with a 4N NUANS Search Report.

Recently, Industry Canada has made their database directly accessible to the public, but this will not generate Reports that are acceptable to the Ontario Government. These searches must be ordered through intermediaries, sometimes called NUANS Search Houses. If you require no assistance and feel confident in your abilities, you can find Ontario NUANS Searches for as low as $30.00 on the Internet. If that's all you need, we'd suggest you do a search for 'Ontario and NUANS' on your favourite search engine.