THE TKE FRATERNITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (CANADA)
LA FONDATION ÉDUCATIVE DE LA FRATERNITÉ TKE (CANADA)
P.O. BOX 1194, STATION B
MONTREAL, QUÉBEC H3B 3K9
CANADA

Letters Patent

To the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs of Canada.

I

The undersigned hereby apply to the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs 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

La Fondation Éducative de la Fraternité Tau Kappa Epsilon (Canada)

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 province thereof or so nearly resembles the same as to be calculated to deceive (except that of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, an Illinois non-profit corporation, and Tau Kappa Epsilon Educational Foundation, an Indiana charitable organization, each of which has signified its consent to the use of the said name) 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:

David Adamson, Executive

Brian C. M. Barrett, Executive

Dr. Frederick R. S. Binding, Professor

Stephen J. Chomniak, Engineer

Brian T. Counihan, Administrator

John Currey, Jr., Surveyor

Tim Gadosy, Chemist

Hachem Halabi, Accountant

Micheal Hayes-Rivet, Officer

Daniel Roger Lamontagne,  Administrator

Michael R. Minkoff, Executive

John D. Pomeroy, Student

Paul Reid, Executive

Aaron Shields, Surveyor

Robin D. Tyler, Executive

Gene Woodbridge, Executive 

The said John Currey, Jr., Hachem Halabi, Daniel Roger Lamontagne, Robin D. Tyler and Gene Woodbridge will be the first directors of the Corporation. 

III

The objects of the Corporation are:

(a) to further education and promote scholarship at the post-secondary school level;

(b) to provide bursuries, scholarships and grants to deserving candidates;

(c) to organize and present educational lectures, meetings, workshops, programs, conferences and courses;

(d) to publish, purchase, distribute and otherwise make available periodicals, books, manuals and other literature which the Corporation may think desirable for the promotion of its objects;

(e) to raise or collect monies by way of donations or otherwise and to accept and receive gifts, bequests, devises and endowments of any kind; and

(f) to exercise any of the powers from time to time afforded to the Corporation by the Canada Corporations Act and by any other statute, statutes or laws from time to time applicable but only as incidental to or necessary for the carrying out of the aforesaid charitable objects.

IV

The operations of the Corporation may be carried on throughout Canada and elsewhere.

V

The place within Canada where the head office of the Corporation is to be situated is the Municipality of Waterloo, Province of Ontario.

VI

It is specially 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 pursuant to 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 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 of the corporation may from time to time:

(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, hypothec, charge or pledge of all or any currently owned or subsequently acquired real and personal, movable and immovable, property of the Corporation, and the undertaking and rights of the corporation

Any such by-law 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 manner 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.

VIII

The by-laws of the corporation shall be those filed with the application for letters patent until repealed, amended, altered or added to.

IX

The corporation is to carry on its 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 Montréal in the Province of Québec, this 21st day of February, 1995.

Signed by:

Gene Woodbridge

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