Google Maps scraping for Canada
Extraction mechanics are global; everything around them is local. The Canada specifics: phone formats, the registry position, the outreach-law regime, and how listings behave in this market. Orientation, not legal advice.
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The mechanics do not change; the context does
Google Maps behaves the same in Canada as everywhere else: a single search stops at roughly 120 results, complete city coverage needs grid extraction, and the export carries the standard fields. If you are choosing a tool, the model comparison applies unchanged. What this page adds is the four things that are genuinely different in Canada.
1. Phone formats
Same +1 plan as the US; province-level area-code discipline makes phone-prefix territory splits workable. Whatever the listing shows, normalise to E.164 (+1...) at export time: diallers, WhatsApp tooling and de-duplication all depend on it, and the export guide covers the Excel traps on the way.
2. The registry position
The national DNCL exists alongside CRTC telemarketing rules; genuine B2B calls have exemptions, but the binding constraint in Canada is not calling, it is email.
3. The outreach-law regime
CASL is the strictest mainstream email regime: cold email needs consent, and the workable B2B path is implied consent via conspicuously published addresses with no no-solicitation notice, plus message relevance to the recipient’s role, plus full identification and unsubscribe. Penalties are severe enough that Canadian lists deserve their own campaign rules rather than inheriting US ones. The wider picture (collection law, Google's terms, and how they separate from outreach rules) is in the legality guide; treat both pages as orientation rather than legal advice.
4. How the market's listings behave
- Bilingual listings: Quebec rows carry French names and categories, and outreach into Quebec in English underperforms badly.
- Density profiles sit closer to the UK than the US; the industry-guide ranges hold if you read them toward the lower band.
Channel strategy for Canada
Phone-first, honestly, because CASL makes cold email the compliance-heavy channel here. Where email is used, build the implied-consent file per row. The per-category channel notes in the industry guides compose with this: category picks the channel family, the market rules above set its constraints, and the prospect-list workflow handles the rest.