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Cancel a business name

Find out how to cancel your business name.

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Overview

You should cancel your business name when:

  • you wind up or sell your trade name
  • you dissolve your partnership
  • you cancel the registration of your Alberta or extra-provincial limited partnership or your extra-provincial limited partnership is cancelled in your home jurisdiction
  • you cancel the registration of your Alberta or extra-provincial limited liability partnership or your extra-provincial limited liability partnership is cancelled in your home jurisdiction

Cost

Service providers will charge a service fee to process your cancellation. See the Registry agent product catalogue.

How to apply

Step 1. Fill out the forms

Use these sample forms for the cancellation notice or create your own forms.

Fillable PDF forms may not open properly on some mobile devices and web browsers. For help opening the forms, contact PDF form technical support.

Wind up or sell your trade name

Wind up or sell your trade name

Dissolving your partnership

Dissolve your partnership

Special Authority to Execute a Declaration

Cancelling your Alberta or extra-provincial limited partnership (LP)

Notice to Cancel Alberta/Extra-Provincial Limited Partnership
Special Authority to Execute a Registration

Cancelling your Alberta or extra-provincial limited liability partnership (LLP)

Notice to Cancel Alberta/Extra-Provincial Limited Liability Partnership

Cancelling an extra-provincial registration in BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan

Limited liability partnership

If your Alberta LLP registration has been cancelled and the business is currently extra-provincially registered in BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan or if your business no longer operates in those provinces, you also need to complete one or more of the following updates:

There is no cost to register a BC or Saskatchewan update but you must send those forms to Alberta Corporate Registry by fax or email:

Fax: 780-422-1091

Email: [email protected]

If your LLP home jurisdiction is British Columbia, Manitoba or Saskatchewan, there are special processes for changing or cancelling your registration in Alberta.  Contact your home jurisdiction registry office for more information.

British Columbia

Manitoba

Saskatchewan

Limited partnership

If your Alberta LP has been cancelled and the business is currently extra-provincially registered in BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan, no action is required. Alberta Corporate Registry will notify the other provinces and your LP registration in those provinces will be cancelled.

If your Alberta LP has stopped carrying on business in BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan, but is still active in Alberta, you must notify the other provinces to cancel your registration in that province

If your LP home jurisdiction is BC, Manitoba or Saskatchewan, and you no longer want to carry on business in Alberta, submit your cancellation request through Alberta’s Online Extra-Provincial Registration. There is no cost.

If your LP was cancelled in its home province, no action is required. Your home jurisdiction will notify Alberta Corporate Registry of the cancellation and your LP registration in Alberta will automatically be cancelled.

Step 2. Submit your application

Bring the following to an authorized Corporate Registry service provider:

  • your completed form
  • valid ID
  • service fee

Contact

Hours: 8:15 am to 4:30 pm (open Monday to Friday, closed statutory holidays)

Phone: 780-427-7013

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