Professionals and Companies Directory - Canada

Professionals and Companies File - Canada

The Canadian business file is available, via direct delivery or through our software. It covers the ten provinces and three territories: Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Each record includes a phone number.

From office tours in Toronto and Montreal to SMEs in Calgary, Halifax, or Saskatoon, the Canadian economic fabric is vast and spread across the entire territory. For a French-speaking business, Quebec, the Francophone communities of Ontario, and New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province, are markets where you can prospect in your language.

What is this file used for

Here’s what our clients do with it. The list is not exhaustive; it gives an idea of the uses.

Commercial prospecting in Canada

You sell a product or service to businesses - software, consulting, logistics, translation, equipment - and want to prospect across Canada, province by province or city by city. The file provides a list of companies by activity category, with their phone numbers.

Prospecting in French

When indicated by the company, the record specifies the languages spoken: French, English, or both. It’s a way to target companies working in French, in Quebec as well as across Canada.

Fine sector targeting

The activity categories are those of the Canadian professional directory, very detailed. You can choose only general contractors in Alberta, real estate brokers in Montreal, doctors in British Columbia, or restaurants in a specific city.

Distributor and partner search

Identify players in a sector, measure their distribution from one province to another, and contact them one by one. Useful for finding a distributor, a sales agent, or a partner in Canada.

Market study and establishment in Canada

Understand the actual composition of a sector: who is present, in which province, in which city. Useful before establishing or launching an offer in Canada.

Recruitment and direct approach

Identify companies in a specific profession for a recruitment campaign or candidate outreach, province by province.

Enrich your database

Complete an existing CRM with Canadian contact details you lack - address, postal code, phone, website - or verify the ones you have.

Mailing by post

The full address and postal code allow for preparing a mailing via Canada Post, targeted by city or province, where phone is not the best channel.

What a record contains

The identification data are masked below with dots. They are, of course, complete in the delivered file.

The phone number is present on all records, the address and postal code on almost all. The other fields depend on what the company published: website on one in four records, email on one in eight, cell phone on a small portion; Facebook page, hours, description, and spoken languages on some records. Fields not published remain empty.

Activity categories are in English, as published by the directory. Some records have no category.

Overview

A few anonymized records from the file, to give an idea of the variety of sectors and provinces.

Select what you need

The file can be segmented according to your criteria, alone or combined:

• activity category, from the categories of the Canadian professional directory
• province or territory: Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
• city: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Quebec City, Halifax, and all others
• contact type: phone, cell, or email

What the law says in Canada

In Canada, telemarketing is regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which maintains the National List of Excluded Telecommunication Numbers and sets rules for unsolicited calls. Before a calling campaign, check which rules apply to your situation: see our page LNNTE and the official LNNTE website.

Sending commercial emails is governed by the Canadian Anti-Spam Law (CASL): it requires the recipient’s consent, sender identification, and an easy unsubscribe method.

If you are prospecting from another country, your own regulations also apply to your campaigns. We recommend verifying them before starting.

Delivery formats

CSV and Excel, ready to use in your spreadsheet, CRM, or prospecting tool. The file is also directly usable from our software.

Have a specific need?

Tell us which provinces, cities, and sectors interest you, and which contact type you work with: phone, cell, or email. We will inform you of what is available for your selection. Contact us.