You're starting a business in Quebec and you work from home. At registration, a question comes up: which address do you declare? And right behind it, another one: is my home address going to end up publicly searchable on the internet? The answer to the second is yes, by default. So the first one deserves to be settled before you click.
Quebec's enterprise register is public and anyone can search it for free. It lists the company name, its address, and the names of the individuals attached to it: directors, shareholders, partners. And, as a general rule, their home address.
For a freelancer or a founder operating from their living room, that means the address of their house becomes public data, findable in three clicks by a client, a supplier, a competitor or anyone else.
Since that date, Quebec's corporate transparency obligations allow a professional address to be declared in place of a home address. When that is done, the home address is not published in the register.
The rule comes with precise conditions, and this is where many people get it wrong:
In other words: the mechanism exists, it is legitimate, and it assumes a real place where you work or do business. That is exactly the situation of a coworking member who has their desk, their mail and their meetings there. We are neither lawyers nor tax advisors, and the choice of address belongs to the registrant: if your situation is unusual, confirm it with your own professional.
The vocabulary varies from one provider to the next: business address, corporate address, virtual office, domiciliation. What's included varies even more. Ask these questions before you pay.
Our business address is available at all eight locations. It includes the official business address, usable in the register and on your documents, mail reception at the location, the ability to register your Google Business Profile there, a team on site Monday to Friday, access to our events and community, and the member rate on meeting rooms and studios. It is monthly or annual, with no one-year lease. Mail forwarding is an option at $50 per month.
What is not included, and it is better to know now: there is no mail scanning, no phone answering service, and no workspace. Room access is not free, it is a preferential rate. Your mail is kept at reception and you collect it when you drop by.
The price depends on the location, from $79 to $99 per month: $99 in Brossard, $89 at Angus, Old Montreal, Royalmount, Longueuil and Quebec City, $79 in Trois-Rivières and Sainte-Julie. Each address is a separate subscription, so you pick the one matching where you actually work.
If you meet clients more than once a month, the address alone quickly becomes a fiction: you are giving out an address where you never are. In that case a workspace from $199 per month solves both problems at once, and the business address is already included in the Essentiel and Professionnel plans.
The test is simple. Count the times last month you needed somewhere to work or to meet someone outside your home. If the answer is zero or one, the address is enough. If it is four or more, you are already spending the equivalent on cafés and one-off room rentals.
To talk it through with someone instead of guessing, write to us. The trial day is free, at the location of your choice.
Source for the rules cited here: Quebec's Registraire des entreprises, Declaring the professional address of individuals listed in the enterprise register, consulted October 13, 2026.