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. Dana 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

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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.

Buyers who don’t know this 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 Dana 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 Dana, or over video.

Funds & keysMoney moves. Keys on your date.

Land TitlesThe transfer enters the provincial queue.

Title issuedDana sends you the new title.

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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. Dana has spent her career across the table from Central Alberta’s builders, farmers and family firms, and she drafts with the next owner in mind.

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

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Incorporations · Shareholder agreements · Reorganizations · Buy‑sells.

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 in three different cities, and hope the three plans agree with one another. Dana 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. Dana walks executors through probate and estate administration: the court application, the inventory, the creditors, the distribution, the land.

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

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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.

Call to book it (403) 555-0148

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Wills · Enduring power of attorney · Personal directive.

Source: CIBC poll, via CPA Canada.

Every title tells a family’s story. Dana writes the next line.

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.

She grew up here. She never left.

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