Business Licences

curl "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/licences?municipality=calgary&status=active&licence_type=contractor&limit=25" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/licences",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "<your-api-key>"},
    params={
        "municipality": "calgary",
        "status": "active",
        "licence_type": "contractor",
        "limit": 25,
    },
)
print(response.json())

{
  "data": [
    {
      "record_id": "calgary:40659",
      "municipality": "calgary",
      "province": "AB",
      "licence_number_raw": "40659",
      "source_reference": "40659",
      "business_name": "Example Contracting Ltd.",
      "trade_name": null,
      "licence_type_raw": "CONTRACTOR",
      "licence_type": "contractor",
      "business_description": "General contractor",
      "status": "active",
      "address": "123 4 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB",
      "neighbourhood": "Downtown Commercial Core",
      "issue_date": "2025-01-15",
      "expiry_date": "2026-01-14",
      "lat": 51.0491,
      "lng": -114.0713,
      "last_updated": "2026-07-13T06:20:00",
      "distance_km": null
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "total": 1,
    "limit": 25,
    "offset": 0,
    "municipality": "calgary",
    "sort_by": "expiry_date",
    "sort_order": "desc",
    "proximity": null
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "status must be one of: active, expired, cancelled, other."
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "message": "Missing API key. Pass your key in the X-API-Key header."
  }
}

GET

api

licences

curl "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/licences?municipality=calgary&status=active&licence_type=contractor&limit=25" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/licences",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "<your-api-key>"},
    params={
        "municipality": "calgary",
        "status": "active",
        "licence_type": "contractor",
        "limit": 25,
    },
)
print(response.json())

{
  "data": [
    {
      "record_id": "calgary:40659",
      "municipality": "calgary",
      "province": "AB",
      "licence_number_raw": "40659",
      "source_reference": "40659",
      "business_name": "Example Contracting Ltd.",
      "trade_name": null,
      "licence_type_raw": "CONTRACTOR",
      "licence_type": "contractor",
      "business_description": "General contractor",
      "status": "active",
      "address": "123 4 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB",
      "neighbourhood": "Downtown Commercial Core",
      "issue_date": "2025-01-15",
      "expiry_date": "2026-01-14",
      "lat": 51.0491,
      "lng": -114.0713,
      "last_updated": "2026-07-13T06:20:00",
      "distance_km": null
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "total": 1,
    "limit": 25,
    "offset": 0,
    "municipality": "calgary",
    "sort_by": "expiry_date",
    "sort_order": "desc",
    "proximity": null
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "status must be one of: active, expired, cancelled, other."
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "message": "Missing API key. Pass your key in the X-API-Key header."
  }
}

Business licence records cover active and historical licences issued by municipal governments. Use them to identify businesses by category and location, track licence status, and monitor new or expiring licences. The dataset contains more than 302,000 records from Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, Burnaby, and Kelowna. It refreshes automatically from official municipal sources.

List business licences

GET /api/v1/licences

Query parameters

integer

default:"100"

Maximum records to return. The upper bound is 500.

integer

default:"0"

Number of records to skip for pagination.

string

One or more comma-separated city slugs: burnaby, calgary, edmonton, kelowna, vancouver, or victoria.

string

Partial match across the business name, trade name, address, licence type, and other searchable licence text.

string

Partial match on the normalized or source licence type. category is accepted as an alias.

string

Partial match on the municipality’s original licence-type text.

string

One of active, expired, cancelled, or other.

string

Partial match on the registered business name. business is accepted as an alias.

string

Partial match on the business trade name.

string

Partial match on neighbourhood, ward, or district text where the municipality publishes it.

string

Inclusive ISO 8601 licence-issue-date start. issued_after is accepted as an alias.

string

Inclusive ISO 8601 licence-issue-date end. issued_before is accepted as an alias.

string

Inclusive ISO 8601 licence-expiry-date start.

string

Inclusive ISO 8601 licence-expiry-date end.

number

Latitude for proximity search. Provide with lng and radius_km.

number

Longitude for proximity search. Provide with lat and radius_km.

number

Search radius in kilometres, from 0.1 to 100.

string

default:"expiry_date"

One of issue_date, issued, expiry_date, expires, updated, last_updated, or distance. distance requires a complete proximity query.

string

default:"desc"

Either asc or desc.

curl "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/licences?municipality=calgary&status=active&licence_type=contractor&limit=25" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/licences",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "<your-api-key>"},
    params={
        "municipality": "calgary",
        "status": "active",
        "licence_type": "contractor",
        "limit": 25,
    },
)
print(response.json())

{
  "data": [
    {
      "record_id": "calgary:40659",
      "municipality": "calgary",
      "province": "AB",
      "licence_number_raw": "40659",
      "source_reference": "40659",
      "business_name": "Example Contracting Ltd.",
      "trade_name": null,
      "licence_type_raw": "CONTRACTOR",
      "licence_type": "contractor",
      "business_description": "General contractor",
      "status": "active",
      "address": "123 4 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB",
      "neighbourhood": "Downtown Commercial Core",
      "issue_date": "2025-01-15",
      "expiry_date": "2026-01-14",
      "lat": 51.0491,
      "lng": -114.0713,
      "last_updated": "2026-07-13T06:20:00",
      "distance_km": null
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "total": 1,
    "limit": 25,
    "offset": 0,
    "municipality": "calgary",
    "sort_by": "expiry_date",
    "sort_order": "desc",
    "proximity": null
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "status must be one of: active, expired, cancelled, other."
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "message": "Missing API key. Pass your key in the X-API-Key header."
  }
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
`record_id`	string	Stable NorthAxium record identifier
`municipality`	string	City slug
`province`	string	Province abbreviation
`licence_number_raw`	string	Licence number published by the municipality
`source_reference`	string	Source-system record identifier where published
`business_name` / `trade_name`	string	Registered and trade business names where published
`licence_type_raw`	string	Source licence-type text
`licence_type`	string	Normalized licence type
`business_description`	string	Business activity description where published
`status`	string	Normalized licence status
`address`	string	Business address where published
`neighbourhood`	string	Neighbourhood, ward, or district where published
`issue_date` / `expiry_date`	date	Licence issue and expiry dates where published
`lat` / `lng`	number	Business location coordinates where published
`last_updated`	timestamp	NorthAxium record update timestamp
`distance_km`	number	Distance from the search coordinate for proximity queries

Detail and statistics

Retrieve one record by record_id:

GET /api/v1/licences/{record_id}

The detail endpoint also returns status_raw and source_url when they are published by the municipality. Get grouped record counts:

GET /api/v1/licences/stats?group_by=municipality

The group_by parameter accepts municipality, province, status, licence_type, neighbourhood, issue_year, or expiry_year. The list filters also apply to statistics. For city-by-city availability, see Municipal Intelligence Coverage.

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Business Licences

List business licences

Query parameters

Response fields

Detail and statistics

​List business licences

​Query parameters

​Response fields

​Detail and statistics

List business licences

Query parameters

Response fields

Detail and statistics