Official Titles and Abbreviations for Canadian Federal Departments and Agencies

A list of applied titles and official abbreviations for all federal departments and agencies in Canada, mapped to their corresponding legal titles from the Financial Administration Act. The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat maintains this registry, which was last updated on 2026-04-09. This data likely supports official communications and visual identity standards across the Government of Canada.

Use Cases

• Validate official department names in public-facing documents based on the applied titles list.
• Map applied titles to their legal counterparts for compliance checks based on the Financial Administration Act mapping.
• Standardize abbreviations for government agencies in databases or search systems based on the official abbreviations provided.
• Analyze the structure and naming conventions of the federal government based on the registry of applied titles.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
• Provides a direct mapping between applied titles used in communications and their underlying legal titles.
• Available in multiple formats including CSV and DOCX for different use cases.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-04-09).

Provenance

Source

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Collection Method

Extracted from part 1 of the registry of applied titles.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 16:51:21.134066

Geography

Canada