Registers of Letters Patent and Supplementary Letters Patent Issued ^©

Introduction

Letters Patent, Supplementary Letters Patent, and various supporting documents have been transferred to the Provincial Archives from Corporate Services, Department of Justice. One series of registers transferred comprises 26 volumes of Registers of Letters Patent and Supplementary Letters Patent Issued, 1885-1976. These volumes were used by Corporate Affairs to give a synopsis of information concerning companies registered.

When all information was provided, each page of each register shows Name of Company being issued the letters patent, Head Office, Capital Stock, Date of Issue, Original Incorporators, etc., and information about supplementary letters patent, where applicable. Registrations are also annotated to show cancellation, forfeiture, surrender, change of name, continued out, amalgamation, bankruptcy, or winding up, and date of such activity. It should be noted that in the back of book A1 there is a list of the dates of issuance of letters patent to Agricultural Society Districts #1 - #197 (1888-1924).

Using the Index:
The Index provided here is to these 28 volumes of registration. The index provides the following information:

B: Book
This is the reference to a register (lettered A to Z).

Page
Page number within the register.

S:
Sequence Shows the order of events in cases where an amendment has resulted in the change of name, amalgamation, etc. For example, in Book A, page 139, the original company went through various changes where: 1) White, Colwell Company Limited was first registered in 1894 but changed its name in 1896 to 2) White Candy Company Limited, and again changed its name in 1913 to 3) Corona Company Limited which surrendered its charter in 1941. This sequence is numbered "1)", "2)", "3)".

Name
This is the corporate name. Reasonable effort was made to accurately transcribe names as found in the registers. Note that in cases such as JOHN SMITH LTD. or C. JONES COMPANY, names were indexed as SMITH, JOHN, LTD. and JONES, C., COMPANY for ease of access because researchers usually remember the surname associated with a company. To index an entity under the given name or initial might be to lose it among the over 18,000 entries in the index.

Registered
The year of initial registration.

Amendment
Relates to type of amendment affecting the registered entity; such as forfeiture, change of name, cancellation, surrender, winding up, revival, amalgamation, etc. Following the "Sequence", as described above, helps interpret the amendments.

Date of Amendment
The date (year-month-day) of amendment of the letters patent by supplementary letters patent.

Film#
The number of the roll of film containing the register.

Researchers should note that this is a cumulative index to the registration volumes and not a comprehensive index to the Letters Patent themselves. Letters Patent are filed by year and each year has its own index: those interested in using these records must attend the Provincial Archives at 23 Dineen Drive on the campus of the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. They are not on microfilm.

Viewing the Complete Record:
The registers are available only on microfilm. The microfilm number is included in the index, along with the reference codes. The films can be viewed at the Provincial Archives in Fredericton, or at a library participating in the inter-library or inter-archives microfilm loan program.

List of Registers on Microfilm:

Book Date of Registrations Microfilm