Corporate Registry forms for businesses

• Articles of incorporation
• Notice of agent for service
• Notice of corporation address
• Notice of directors
• Notice of English/French name equivalency (if applicable)

• Application for limited liability partnership
• Application for limited partnership
  • Special authority to execute a registration (if applicable)
• Declaration of general partnership
  • Special Authority to Execute a Declaration (if applicable)
• Declaration of trade name/sole proprietorship

• Affidavit of execution
• Articles of incorporation (prepare your own articles)
• Bylaws (prepare your own bylaws)
• Information for incorporation
• Notice of address
• Notice of directors

Corporation and limited partnership (online services)

• Register in BC
  • Request a business name reservation in BC
• Register in Manitoba
  • Request a business name reservation in Manitoba
• Register in Saskatchewan
  • Request a business name reservation in Saskatchewan

Limited liability partnership and cooperative

Email these registration forms to Alberta Corporate Registry at [email protected]. They will be forwarded to BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan.

British Columbia

• Limited liability partnership registration in BC (PDF, 200 KB)
• Cooperative registration in BC (PDF, 223 KB)
• Request a business name reservation in BC (online)

Manitoba

• Limited liability partnership registration in Manitoba (PDF, 343 KB)
• Cooperative registration in Manitoba (PDF, 300 KB) and
  • Power of attorney in Manitoba (PDF, 450 KB)
• Request a business name reservation in Manitoba (online)

Saskatchewan

• Limited liability partnership registration in Saskatchewan (PDF, 192 KB)
• Cooperative registration in Saskatchewan (PDF, 171 KB)
• Request a business name reservation in Saskatchewan (online)

Corporation and limited partnership

• Register directly through Alberta’s Online Extra-Provincial Registration

Limited liability partnership and cooperative

Email these forms to your home province registry in BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan. They will be forwarded to Alberta Corporate Registry.

• Limited liability partnership registration in Alberta
• Cooperative registration in Alberta

Extra-provincial corporation

• Certified copies of certificates and charter documents from the home jurisdiction
• Notice of agent for service
• Notice of assumed name (if applicable)
• Statement of extra-provincial registration

Extra-provincial limited partnership/limited liability partnership

• Application for limited liability partnership
• Application for limited partnership
• Special authority to execute a registration (if applicable)

Extra-provincial cooperative

• Copy of certificate and charter documents from the home jurisdiction
• Notice of agent for service
• Notice of directors
• Notice of head office
• Statement of assumed name (if applicable)
• Statement of extra-provincial registration

• Annual return
• Articles of amalgamation and the following:
  • Articles of arrangement (if applicable)
  • Notice of address
  • Notice of agent for service
  • Notice of directors
  • Notice of English/French name equivalency (if applicable)
• Articles of amendment
• Articles of arrangement
• Articles of reorganization
• Change of agent for service
• Change of agent for service address
• Change of corporation address
• Change of directors
• Change of director’s address
• Notice/cancellation of English or French name equivalency
• Restated articles of incorporation

• Address change for trade name/sole proprietorship
• Amendment/change for general partnership
• Amendment/change for limited liability partnership
• Amendment/change for limited partnership
• Annual report for limited liability partnership
• Special Authority to execute a registration

• Amendments to bylaws and the following (if applicable):
  • New bylaws when the previous bylaws were repealed and replaced (prepare your own bylaws)
• Annual return
• Articles of amalgamation (prepare your own articles)
  • Affidavit of execution
  • Bylaws (prepare your own bylaws)
  • Information for amalgamation
  • Notice of address
  • Notice of directors
  • Statutory declaration
• Articles of amendment (list the specific amendments on a separate page)
• Articles of arrangement or articles of reorganization
  • Other forms or information as dictated by the court order
• Change of cooperative address
• Change of directors

Corporation and limited partnership (online services unless otherwise stated)

British Columbia

• Update in BC
  • Request a new business name reservation in BC (if applicable)
• Application to correct the Corporate Register in BC (PDF, 557 KB) (paper form)
• Assumed name cancellation or change in BC (PDF, 456 KB) (paper form)
• Attorney resignation in BC (PDF, 86 KB) (paper form)
• Update Alberta amalgamation in BC (PDF, 459 KB) (paper form)
  • Email paper forms to Alberta Corporate Registry at [email protected] which will forward them to BC

Manitoba

• Update in Manitoba
• Request a business name reservation in Manitoba (if applicable)

Saskatchewan

• Update in Saskatchewan
• Request a business name reservation in Saskatchewan (if applicable)

Limited liability partnership and cooperative

Email these forms to Alberta Corporate Registry at [email protected]. They will be forwarded to BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan.

British Columbia

• Update limited liability partnership registration in BC (PDF, 187 KB)
• Update limited liability partnership attorney in BC (PDF, 193 KB)
• Update cooperative registration in BC (PDF, 188 KB)
• Change cooperative attorney in BC (PDF, 195 KB)
• Change cooperative attorney’s address in BC (PDF, 176 KB)
• Update cooperative directors in BC (PDF, 185 KB)
• Request a business name reservation in BC (if applicable)

Manitoba

• Update your limited liability partnership registration in Manitoba (PDF, 343 KB)
• Register cooperative amalgamation in Manitoba
  • Application for supplementary certificate of registration (PDF, 292 KB)
  • Power of attorney (PDF, 40 KB)
• Change the name of a cooperative registered in Manitoba (PDF, 479 KB)
• Change the registered office of a cooperative registered in Manitoba (PDF, 32 KB)
• Request a business name reservation in Manitoba (if applicable)

Saskatchewan

• Update your limited liability partnership registration in Saskatchewan (PDF, 175 KB)
• Update your cooperative registration in Saskatchewan (PDF, 162 KB)
• Register cooperative amalgamation in Saskatchewan (PDF, 171 KB)
• Request a business name reservation in Saskatchewan (if applicable)

Corporation and limited partnership

• Submit your update directly through Alberta’s Online Extra-Provincial Registration

Limited liability partnership and cooperative

Email these forms to your home province registry in BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan which will forward them to Alberta Corporate Registry.

• Register limited liability partnership amendment in Alberta
• Register cooperative amendment in Alberta
• Register cooperative amalgamation in Alberta

Extra-provincial corporation

• Amendment – provide certified copies of certificates and documents from the home jurisdiction
• Amalgamation – provide certified copies of amalgamation certificates and documents from the home jurisdiction and the following
  • Statement of amalgamation
  • Notice of agent for service
• Annual return
• Change of agent for service
• Change of agent for service address
• Change of corporation address
• Change of directors
• Change of director’s address
• Change of head office
• Continuance into Alberta – provide the following:
  • Articles of continuance 
  • Notice of agent for service
  • Notice of corporation address
  • Notice of directors
  • Notice of English or French name equivalency (if applicable)
• Notice of adoption/change/cancellation of assumed name in Alberta
• Notice/cancellation of English or French name equivalency

Extra-provincial limited partnership/limited liability partnership

• Annual report for limited liability partnership
• Notice to amend limited liability partnership and
  • certified copies of certificates and documents from the home jurisdiction
• Notice to amend limited partnership
  • Special authority to execute a registration (if applicable)

Extra-provincial cooperative

• Amalgamation
  • Affidavit of execution
  • Copy of amalgamation certificate, amalgamation agreement, bylaws, and other amalgamation documents from the home jurisdiction
  • Notice of agent for service
  • Notice of head office
  • Notice of directors
  • Statement of amalgamation
  • Statement of assumed name (if applicable)
• Annual return
• Change of agent for service
• Change of directors
• Change of head office
• Continuance into Alberta – provide a written request from the cooperative and include the following:
  • Affidavit of execution
  • Articles of continuance – prepare your own
  • Authorization letter from the home jurisdiction
  • Bylaws (prepare your own bylaws)
  • Information for continuance
  • Notice of address
  • Notice of directors

• Articles of dissolution
• Continuance out of Alberta
  • Written request from the corporation
  • Copy of certificate from the new home jurisdiction when the continuance is complete
• Liquidation – submit appointments, discharges, and financial statements prepared by a court-ordered liquidator
• Notice of bankruptcy
• Notice of court-ordered appointment or discharge of liquidator
• Notice of change of record keeper after dissolution
• Receivership – submit appointments, discharges, and reports prepared by the receiver
• Revival – provide the following:
  • Annual return for revival for each year in which an annual return was not submitted before and after dissolution
  • Articles of revival
  • Notice of change of agent for service (if applicable)
  • Notice of change of corporation address (if applicable)
  • Notice of change of directors (if applicable)
• Statement of intent to dissolve/revocation of intent to dissolve

• Cancellation of general partnership
• Cancellation of limited liability partnership
• Cancellation of limited partnership
• Cancellation of trade name/sole proprietorship
• Revival is not available – Register a new business name; see section above: Incorporation or initial registration – Alberta business name or partnership

• Articles of dissolution
• Articles of revival
  • Affidavit of execution
  • Annual return for each year in which an annual return was not submitted before and after dissolution
  • Copy of the articles of incorporation may be required
  • Notice of address
  • Notice of directors
• Continuance out of Alberta
  • Written request from the cooperative
  • Copy of certificate and articles from the new home jurisdiction when the continuance is complete
• Liquidation – submit appointments, discharges, and reports prepared by the liquidator
• Receivership – submit appointments, discharges, and reports prepared by the receiver
• Statement of intent to dissolve/revocation of intent to dissolve (liquidation)

Corporation or limited partnership (online unless otherwise stated)

Email paper forms to Alberta Corporate Registry at [email protected] which will forward them to BC.

British Columbia

• Cancel registration in BC (PDF, 126 KB) (paper form)
• Limited corporation reinstatement in BC (PDF, 91 KB) (paper form)
• Full corporation reinstatement in BC (PDF, 106 KB) (paper form)
• New limited partnership registration in BC
• Request a name reservation in BC

Manitoba

• Cancel registration in Manitoba
• Reinstate/restore corporation in Manitoba (PDF, 297 KB) (paper form)
• New limited partnership registration in Manitoba
• Request a name reservation in Manitoba

Saskatchewan

• Cancel registration in Saskatchewan
• Reinstate/restore corporation registration in Saskatchewan
• New limited partnership registration in Saskatchewan
• Request a name reservation in Saskatchewan

Limited liability partnership and cooperative

Email the forms to Alberta Corporate Registry at [email protected] which will forward them to BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan.

British Columbia

• Cancel limited liability partnership registration in BC (PDF, 172 KB)
• Cancel cooperative registration in BC (PDF, 171 KB)
• New limited liability partnership registration in BC (PDF, 226 KB)
• New cooperative registration in BC (PDF, 223 KB)
• Request a name reservation in BC (online)

Manitoba

• Cancel limited liability partnership registration in Manitoba (PDF, 393 KB)
• Cancel cooperative registration in Manitoba (PDF, 464 KB)
• New limited liability partnership registration in Manitoba (PDF, 409 KB)
• New cooperative registration in Manitoba (PDF, 300 KB) and
• Power of attorney in Manitoba (PDF, 450 KB)
• Request a name reservation in Manitoba (online)

Saskatchewan

• Cancel limited liability partnership registration in Saskatchewan (PDF, 122 KB)
• Cancel cooperative registration in Saskatchewan (PDF, 86 KB)
• New limited liability partnership registration in Saskatchewan (PDF, 192 KB)
• Restore cooperative registration in Saskatchewan (PDF, 171 KB)
• Request a name reservation in Saskatchewan (online)

Corporation and limited partnership

• Submit your cancellation request directly through Alberta’s Online Extra-Provincial Registration
• Apply for new registration directly through Alberta’s Online Extra-Provincial Registration

Limited liability partnership and cooperative

Email your cancellation or new registration request through your home province of BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan. It will be sent to Alberta Corporate Registry.

• Cancel limited liability partnership registration in Alberta
• Cancel cooperative registration in Alberta
• New registration for limited liability partnership registration in Alberta
• New registration for cooperative in Alberta

Corporation

• Cancellation: Prepare your own cancellation request or provide proof of dissolution/cancellation from your home jurisdiction
• Reinstatement: Application to reinstate
  • Statement of registration
  • Notice of agent for service
  • Notice of assumed name (if applicable)

Limited partnership/limited liability partnership

• Cancellation
  • Notice to cancel limited liability partnership
  • Notice to cancel limited partnership
  • Special authority to execute a registration (if applicable)
• Reinstatement is not available in Alberta – submit a new application for extra-provincial registration

Cooperative

• Cancellation: Submit a cancellation request
• Application to reinstate
  • Annual return for each year in which an annual return was not submitted before and after dissolution
  • Copy of the charter documents may be required
  • Notice of agent for service
  • Notice of address
  • Notice of directors
  • Notice of head office
  • Statement of assumed name if applicable