The links below are all accessible off-campus.  Capital IQ, available in the Finance Lab and on two computer terminals in the MHL, is also recommended for company information. 

Information available is contigent on disclosure, which varies across geographic regions. For Canada, there is a directory maintained by the Government of Canada for Indigenous Businesses (see link below). There is information available from Statistics Canada that gives aggregated data on SME ownership by gender, disability,etc. There is currently no source available that allows you to search for company lists by specific demographic criteria. 

There are self-reporting directories listed below for other specific demographic groups. These are maintained by external groups and updating may be sporadic, and they may not be comprehensive because they rely on self-reporting. You can also search for news articles with business lists or for specific geographic regions, or social media for user-generated lists.

Outside of Canada, check the country's census data, statistics sources, or industry/economic ministries for data. 

Disclosure of number of employees is not required. Typically, they may disclose total number of company employees in company filings. Numbers by location depend on if they choose to do so. 

They may also disclose those numbers via news articles or through Dun & Bradstreet (but that could be an estimate rather than a true number). You can find number of employees via SimplyAnalytics. You can try searching by company name but if the company is registered as a numbered corporation and operating under a different name, it may not show. Try searching by industry and then zoom into the map to find it via location. 

If you are doing a larger data project with employee data counts, please talk to the Map & Data Library or the MHL for source options.