Canada Corporate Forms

Prepare a Director's Resolution to approve a share transfer with this free template for Canadian business corporations.

• The Board of Directors of the corporation approves and authorizes a transfer of shares from an existing shareholder to a party who is purchasing the shares.
• This template can be used by federal corporations or by provincial companies incorporated under a Business Corporations Act (Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Yukon, NWT, Nunavut). A French language version is required for use in Quebec.
• All share transfers must be approved. Download the Canada Directors Resolution Approving Share Transfer template for your corporate secretary.

Revoke the signing authority of an officer of a Canadian corporation with this template Resolution of the Board of Directors.

• This template would be used whenever a signing officer resigns or is removed by the Board.
• This is a reusable corporate form. Save it as a template and re-use it as often as you require.
• The template can be used by corporations in any province or territory of Canada which has a Business Corporations Act, including federal companies. A French language translation is required for use in Quebec.
• Download the Canada Directors Resolution Revoking Signing Authority and use it any time there is a change in your company's corporate signing officers.

Set the date of a shareholder meeting for a Canadian corporation with this template Directors Resolution.

• This form can be used by the Board of Directors to fix the date of annual or special meetings of the shareholders.
• The Resolution also authorizes the form and content of the information circular and other documentation which has been prepared for the meeting.
• The Canada Directors Resolution Setting Date of Shareholder Meeting template is provided in MS Word format and is fully editable.
• This Directors Resolution template can be used by any Canadian or provincial corporation which has been incorporated under a Business Corporations Act. The form may not be valid in Quebec.

Before you can use a corporate seal on your company's documents, the directors must adopt the seal by resolution.

Download this free template for your Minute Book, or copy and paste the following text into a new document.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE DIRECTORS OF ________________ (legal name of corporation) (the "Corporation")

ADOPTION OF CORPORATE SEAL

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the seal, an impression of which appears in the margin hereof, is hereby adopted as the corporate seal of the Corporation.


DATED at ______________________ (insert city, province) this ______ day of ________, 20____.

The undersigned being all of the directors of the Corporation, hereby adopt the foregoing resolutions pursuant to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act.


_____________________________
Signature of Director


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Signature of Director

Adopt any pre-incorporation contracts signed by a principal of a Canadian corporation on behalf of the company with this free template Directors' Resolution form.

• The Board of Directors resolve to adopt any contracts entered into by the authorized signing authority on behalf of the corporation prior to its incorporation.
• The corporation also releases the principal from any liability with respect to the contracts.
• It's common practice for a corporate insider to sign contracts prior to incorporating. This Directors' Resolution binds the corporation by the terms of the contracts as if it had signed on its own behalf.
• This form can be used by any corporation incorporated under a Business Corporations Act, whether under federal or provincial law. Not for use in Quebec.

Pass a Directors Resolution authorizing the payment of employee bonuses with this easy template for Canadian corporations.

• The Board of Directors authorizes bonuses be paid to certain employees, in specified amounts.
• The Board also sets the remuneration to be paid to the directors.
• This Directors Resolution template can be used by federal companies and by companies incorporated in any province or territory of Canada that has a Business Corporations Act. A French translation is required for use in Quebec.
• This downloadable template form can be reused as often as you like.

Approve a change to the fiscal year end of a Canadian corporation with this free Directors Resolution form.

The template is a free download in MS Word format. If you don't have Word / Office, you can copy and paste the following text.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE DIRECTORS OF ________________________ (insert legal name of corporation)
(the "Corporation")

CHANGE OF YEAR END

WHEREAS the directors of the Corporation have determined that it is in the best interests of the Corporation to change the fiscal year end of the Corporation;
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the fiscal year end of the Corporation be the ___ day of ___________________ (insert month) of each year.

DATED at ______________________ (insert city, province) this ____ day of ____________, ________,

The undersigned being all of the directors of the Corporation, hereby adopt the foregoing resolutions pursuant to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act.


______________________________________
Signature of Director

The directors of a Canadian corporation can change its registered office by passing this Directors Resolution.

• The corporation's Board of Directors resolves to change the registered office from its current location to a new location.
• The corporate secretary is authorized to file the appropriate form of Notice with the applicable registry.
• The template can be used by any Canadian corporation formed under a Business Corporations Act, either federally or provincially. English version not valid in Quebec.
• Available as a fully editable download in MS Word format.
• Intended to be used only within Canada.

Designate a financial institution to act as bankers for a Canadian corporation with this template Directors Resolution.

• Before the corporation sets up its bank accounts, the choice of a bank must be approved by the directors.
• The bank also requires all the proper corporate approvals to be given.
• This form can be downloaded and used by any business corporation in Canada, whether incorporated federally or in one of the provinces with a Business Corporations Act.
• Get your copy of the Directors Resolution to Designate Bank by adding the template to your shopping cart, then checkout using our secure transaction system. You can then download the form.

Prepare a Directors Resolution to authorize the issuance of new shares in a Canadian business corporation with this easy-to-use template.

• The directors accept the subscriptions for new shares and authorize the corporation to issue share certificates to the subscribers upon payment of the share price.
• Every time shares are issued, the directors must approve the issuance. And you can re-use this Directors Resolution form every time - just change the details of the share purchase.
• This is a reusable digital download that will save your corporate secretary lots of time and extra work.
• The form can be used by any privately owned corporation incorporated under a Business Corporations Act within Canada.