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C A N A D A
LETTERS PATENT

WHEREAS an application has been filed to incorporate a corporation under the name

CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR INDEPENDENT RADIO PRODUCTION

THEREFORE the Minister of Industry by virtue of the powers vested in him by the Canada Corporations Act, constitutes the applicants and such persons as may hereafter become members in the corporation hereby created, a body corporate and politic in accordance with the provisions of the said Act. A copy of the said application is attached hereto and forms part hereof.

Date of Letters Patent - March 26, 1999

GIVEN under the seal of office of the Minister of Industry.

for the Minister of Industry

 

File Number: 360217-6

 

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APPLICATION FOR INCORPORATION OF A CORPORATION WITHOUT SHARE CAPITAL UNDER
PART II OF THE
CANADA CORPORATIONS ACT

 

 

To the Minister of Industry

I

 

The undersigned hereby apply to the Minister of Industry for the grant of a charter by letters patent under the provisions of Part II of the Canada Corporations Act constituting the undersigned, and such others as may become members of the Corporation thereby created, a body corporate and politic under the name of

 

CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR INDEPENDENT RADIO PRODUCTION

 

 

The undersigned have satisfied themselves and are assured that the proposed name under which incorporation is sought is not the same or similar to the name under which any other company, society, association or firm, in existence is carrying on business in Canada or is incorporated under the laws of Canada or any other province thereof or so nearly resembles the same as to be calculated to deceive and that it is not a name which is otherwise on public grounds objectionable.

 

II

 

The applicants are individuals of the full age of eighteen years with power under law to contract. The name, the address and the occupation of each of the applicants are as follows:

Harold Alvin Doran

242 Westhaven Crescent

Ottawa, Ontario

K1Z 103

Occupation: communications consultant

Victoria Lynn Fenner

504-1140 Fisher Avenue

Ottawa, Ontario

K1Z 8M5

Occupation: communications consultant and radio producer

Barry Kelvin Rueger

504-1140 Fisher Avenue

Ottawa, Ontario

K1Z 8M5

Occupation: radio station manager

 

 

The said Harold Alvin Doran, Victoria Lynn Fenner and Barry Kelvin Rueger will be the first directors of the Corporation.

 

III

The objects of the Corporation are:

 

a)        to encourage and develop high quality radio and audio productions in Canada;

 

b)        to provide training and education in all aspects of the radio and audio arts

 

c)        to facilitate the production of new educational and artistic works for radio and other forms of electronic sound media;

 

d)        to encourage Canadians to recognize and explore Canada's rich radio heritage.

      

IV

 

The Corporation may carry on business throughout Canada and elsewhere.

                              

                              

V

 

The head office of the Corporation will be in the regional municipality of Ottawa Carleton, in the Province of Ontario, in the country of Canada

 

VI

 

It is specifically provided that in the event of dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation, all its remaining assets after payment of its liabilities shall be distributed to one or more qualified donees as defined under the provisions of the Income Tax Act

 

VII

 

In accordance with Section 65 of the Canada Corporations Act, it is provided that, when authorized by law, duly passed by the directors and sanctioned by at least two-thirds of the votes cast at a special general meeting of the members duly called for considering the by-law, the directors may,

 

a)         borrow money upon the credit of the corporation

b)         limit or increase the amount to be borrowed

c)         issue debentures or other securities of the corporation

d)         pledge or sell such debentures or other securities for such sums and at such prices as may be deemed expedient; and

e)         secure any such debentures, or other securities, or any other present or future borrowing or liability of the corporation by mortgage, hypothetic, charge or pledge of all or any currently owned or subsequently acquired real and personal, moveable and immoveable, property of the Corporation, and the undertaking and rights of the corporation

 

VIII


Any such bylaw may provide for the delegation of such powers by the directors to such officers or directors of the corporation to such extent and in such as may be set out in the by-law.

 

Nothing herein limits or restricts the borrowing of money by the corporation on bills of exchange or promissory notes made, drawn, accepted or endorsed by or on behalf of the corporation.

XI

The corporation is to carry on is operations without pecuniary gain to its members and any profits or other accretions to the corporation are to be used in promoting its objects.

 

Dated at the City of Ottawa in the Province of Ontario, this 22nd day of March, 1999.

 

[signed] Harold A Doran

[signed] Victoria L Fenner

[signed] Barry K Rueger