Minute Book Rescue
If your BC company was incorporated online — through BC Registries or the old Corporate Online — you probably received a certificate and a notice of articles and nothing else. The Business Corporations Act expects a good deal more to be sitting at your records office. Minute Book Rescue rebuilds it for $299, after a free health check that tells you exactly what is missing.
No payment up front. You get the health check first and decide from there.
Section 42 of the Act lists the records every BC company must keep at its records office. In plain words:
The registry issues the certificate and the notice of articles. Everything else is created by whoever organizes the company after incorporation — the consents, the first resolutions, the actual issuance of shares, the registers. When a lawyer incorporates a company, that is the binder they hand you. When you incorporate through BC Registries or Corporate Online, nobody does it, and the "minute book" is two PDFs in an email. Most owners find out when a bank, a buyer or the CRA says send us your minute book.
Shares that were never issued are the common problem. The notice of articles says the company is authorized to issue shares; it does not say anyone holds any. Without the incorporation agreement, a resolution and a register, your ownership rests on an assumption — awkward in a sale, a loan, or a dispute.
Free health check first. Then the rebuild, flat, followed by a plan that keeps it current from $249/yr.
one-time · or included on Plus ($399/yr)
Your registered office and minute book, kept in order.
Everything in Records Office, plus the changes during the year.
All prices in Canadian dollars, before GST and PST. Government fees are charged at cost: BC annual report $43.39/yr; change of registered & records office $21.50 one-time. A minute book held by a law firm or Ownr is imported free — we'll contact them if you can't download it.
Probably not. If a lawyer organized the company, the binder usually holds everything s.42 requires. Switch to Minuted and we import it free — no transfer fee — and the health check will flag anything that has lapsed since, like an out-of-date register or a missing transparency register.
The company name to start. Then the documents you received at incorporation — certificate, notice of articles, and the articles and incorporation agreement if you have them. Directors and addresses we read from the registry; we won't ask you to retype anything the registry already knows.
We say so in writing. A record that never existed can be created now with today's date and an honest recital of what happened; it cannot be backdated. Where the facts are contested or the answer needs a lawyer's opinion, that is quoted separately and you decide whether to proceed.
Not under the Act currently in force — it is kept at the records office and shown to specified authorities on request. BC has passed, but not yet brought into force, an amendment that would make some of it public. We'll tell clients if and when that changes.
Minuted rebuilds missing or incomplete BC minute books for $299: the registers, consents, resolutions and transparency register the company should have, prepared for e-signature. A free health check comes first. After that, Minuted keeps the book current as the company's records office from $249 a year. On Records Office Plus ($399 a year) the rebuild is included.
Send us the company name. A person replies with what you have, what you don't, and what it would take to fix.
Start with a free health check