If you are incorporating a privately held business under the Business Corporations Act, use this checklist to help you to prepare the necessary documents to organize the corporation. The required information includes:

• names and addresses of initial directors and shareholders
  
• classes of authorized shares
  
• jurisdiction (province) in which the company will be incorporated
  
• registered and records office addresses
  
• fiscal year end
  

and other information necessary to help you complete the forms.

This Canadian incorporation checklist is provided in MS Word format, and is easy to download, fill in and print.