Every title tells a family's story.

Transfer
of Land The first house

The largest cheque of your life, and thirty days to get it right.

Your realtor says “you’ll need a lawyer,” and suddenly there’s a possession date on the calendar. Chris reviews the contract, searches the title, handles the mortgage and the trust funds, meets you to sign, registers the transfer, and decides the moment the keys change hands.

You get the fee in writing before you sign anything. No file opens on a number nobody said out loud.

Residential Commercial Agricultural Public notary

Annotation

The legal fee is quoted in writing before the file opens.

Pending
Registration After you sign

Your keys arrive on time. Your title arrives in a queue.

Alberta closed the Land Titles client-service counters in Calgary and Edmonton on September 15, 2025, to work through a backlog of submissions. The province says they reopen only once registration turnaround falls below 30 business days. They are still closed.

Nobody in Red Deer explains this, so buyers assume something went wrong with their file. Nothing did. Possession, keys and money all happen on your date. Registration of the transfer happens afterwards, in the province’s queue — and Chris tells you that before you sign, not when you phone in a panic six weeks later.

Offer firmYour realtor sends the conveyancing over.

SigningYou sit with Chris. Or over video, if that’s easier.

Funds & keysMoney moves. You get possession, on your date.

Land TitlesThe transfer enters the provincial queue.

Title issuedYour name on the certificate. Chris sends it to you.

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Source — Alberta.ca, Land Titles service notice, in effect at time of writing.

Incorporation
& Share Transfer The business

The company you built is an asset your family will inherit.

Incorporations, shareholder agreements, reorganizations, asset and share purchases, buy-sells. Chris has sat on the other side of Red Deer’s business community for fifteen years — past president of the Red Deer Construction Association, a former board member of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association Central Alberta, and a city councillor before that.

He knows what your company is worth to the people who will one day own it, because he is also the one who writes their wills.

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Past president, Red Deer Construction Association. Former board member, CHBA Central Alberta.

Transfer of Land
— Agricultural The quarter section

A farm transfer is three instruments at once.

The land. The corporation. The will. Most families take those to three different offices — often three different cities — and hope the three plans agree with one another. Chris prepares all three, in Red Deer, at one table.

Red Deer County has 1,510 farms. Nearly one in four Canadian farmers is now 65 or older, and roughly one in ten Alberta farm operators has a formal succession plan written down. The land is going to change hands either way. The only question is whether it changes hands the way the family intended.

1,510Farms in Red Deer County (2021 Census of Agriculture)

8.5%Of Alberta farm operators have a formal succession plan (ATB Financial)

~40%Of Canadian farmers expected to retire within the decade

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Sources — Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture; ATB Financial; CBC and Agriculture Financial Services Corporation.

Transmission
of Land The estate

The instrument that moves a title after someone dies.

It is called a transmission, and by the time it is filed the family is grieving, the bank has frozen the account, and someone has been named executor without ever being asked. Chris walks executors through probate and estate administration — the court application, the inventory, the creditors, the distribution, the land.

He would rather have met you thirty years earlier, when the will was written and this was a conversation instead of a court file.

Annotation

Probate · Estate administration · Executor guidance · Transmission of land.

No instrument Not yet registered

No instrument prepared.

Ninety-four percent of Canadians say everyone should have a will. Fifty-two percent have one. The gap isn’t a legal problem — nobody is confused about whether they need one. It is an appointment nobody has booked.

Wills, enduring powers of attorney, personal directives. One afternoon, once, and the hardest week of your family’s life gets meaningfully easier. It is the only row on this page you can still write yourself.

Book the afternoon (587) 272-2050

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Wills · Enduring power of attorney · Personal directive.

Source — CIBC poll, 2026, via CPA Canada.

Every title tells a family’s story. Chris has closed five thousand.

The largest cheque of your life, and thirty days to get it right.

Your keys arrive on time. Your title arrives in a queue.

The company you built is an asset your family will inherit.

A farm transfer is three instruments at once.

The instrument that moves a title after someone dies.

No instrument prepared.

He grew up here. He never left.

Whatever’s on your desk right now — start there.