1919 Doerr Incorporation

Letters Patent Incorporating “The C. H. Doerr Company, Limited”

Dated 1^st January, 1919

Recorded 7^th January, 1919

Lib. 267 Fol. ½

Ref. No. 70264

By the Honourable Martin Burrell…Secretary of State of Canada

To all to whom these presents shall come, or whom the same may in anywise concern,

Greeting:

Whereas, in and by the 1^st part of Chapter 79, of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, and known as “The Companies Act” and Amending Acts, it is amongst other things, in effect enacted, that the Secretary of State of Canada may, by Letters Patent, under his Seal of Office, grant a Charter to any number of persons, not less than five, who having complied with the requirements of the Act and Amending Acts apply therefor, constituting such persons, and others who thereafter become shareholders in the Company thereby created, a Body Corporate and Politic for any of the purposes or objects to which the Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends, except the construction and working of Railways or of Telegraph or Telephone lines, the business of Banking, the issue of paper money, the business of Insurance, the business of a Loan Company, or the business of a Trust Company, upon the applicants therefor establishing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State, due compliance with the several conditions and terms in and by the said Act and Amending Acts set forth and thereby made conditions precedent to the granting of such Charter.

And Whereas, Charles Henry Doerr, Manufacturer; Ralph Bethel Doerr and Edward Doerr, Shippers; John William Fraser, Commercial Traveller; all of the City of Kitchener, in the Province of Ontario, and Herman Williams, of the Village of New Hamburg, in the said Province of Ontario, Commercial Traveller,

have made application for a Charter under the said Act and Amending Acts, constituting them and such others as may become shareholders in the Company thereby created, a Body Corporate and Politic, under the name of “The C. H. Doerr Company, Limited” for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and have satisfactorily established the sufficiency of all proceedings required by the said Act and Amending Acts, to be taken, and the truth and sufficiency of all facts required to be established previous to the granting of such Letters Patent, and have filed in the Department of the Secretary of State a duplicate of the Memorandum of Agreement executed by the said applicants in conformity with the provisions of the said Act and Amending Acts.

Now know ye, that I, the said Martin Burrell, Secretary of State of Canada, under the authority of the hereinbefore in part recited Act and Amending Acts, do by these Letters Patent, constitute the said Charles Henry Doerr, Ralph Bethel Doerr, Edward Doerr, John William Fraser and Herman Williams, and all others who may become shareholders in the said company, A Body Corporate and Politic, by the name of “The C.H. Doerr Company, Limited” with all the rights and powers given by the said Act and Amending Acts, and for the following purposes and objects, namely:

a) To purchase and acquire the business heretofore carried on at the City of Kitchener by Charles Henry Doerr, trading under the name of C. H. Doerr & Company as manufacturer of biscuits and confectionary;

b) To manufacture, buy, sell and deal in, breadstuffs, cakes, biscuits and confectionary. The operations of the company to be carried on throughout the Dominion of Canada elsewhere.

The place within the Dominion of Canada which is to be the chief place of business of the said Company is the City of Kitchener in the Province of Ontario.

The Capital Stock of the said Company shall be Two hundred and fifty thousand.

Dollars divided into twenty-five hundred shares of one hundred dollars each, subject to the increase of such Capital Stock under the provisions of the said Act and Amending Acts.

That the said Charles Henry Doerr, Ralph Bethel Doerr, Edward Doerr, John William Fraser and Herman Williams, are to be the first or Provisional Directors of the said Company.

Provided always that nothing in these Presents expressed or contained shall be taken to authorize the construction and working of Railways or of Telegraph or Telephone lines, the business of banking, the issue of paper money, the business of Insurance, the business of a Loan Company or the business of a Trust Company by the said Company.

Given under my hand and Seal of Office, at Ottawa, this First day of January, 1919.