Nova Scotia Co-operatives Registry

A list of co-operatives registered at the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies as of September 25, 2025. The dataset includes each co-operative's registry ID, name, year of incorporation, mailing address, and classifies them by profit status and type, such as housing, agriculture, or worker-labour. It provides a snapshot of the co-operative sector in the province.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution of co-operative types across towns using the Type and Town columns.
• Tracking the incorporation trends of non-profit versus for-profit associations over time using Incorporation Year and Non-Profit(N)/For-Profit(P).
• Mapping co-operative locations by postal code or address for regional economic studies using Postal Code and Address.
• Verifying the legal status and registration details of a specific co-operative using Registry ID and Co-op Name.

Strengths

• Includes a specific snapshot date (September 25, 2025) for the registry data.
• Contains explicit classification fields for profit status and detailed co-operative type.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF).

Limitations

• The exact number of records (row count) is not provided by any source.
• Metadata conflicts exist: one source lists a license (OGL-CA-2.0) while another lists none.
• The dataset's update frequency is unclear; the last metadata update is April 2026, but the data itself is from September 2025.

Provenance

Source

Registry of Joint Stock Companies, Government of Nova Scotia.

Collection Method

Official administrative registry.

Time Range

Records up to 2025-09-25; incorporation years are included per record.

Freshness

Data reflects registrations as of 2025-09-25; metadata was last updated on 2026-04-17.

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada.