The End of Life Planner for Canadians — Digital Edition (PDF)

Everything your family will need, in one place — verified for Canada.

The complete 130-page planner as a PDF, page for page identical to the paperback. Read it on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, and print the pages you want to write on. Your copy is watermarked to you, and downloads immediately after purchase.

Somewhere in your house there is a drawer nobody has been through but you. This planner makes it legible to the people who will one day need it: where the documents are, where the money lives, who to call and in what order — and the digital keys, recorded by route rather than by password. Locations, never account numbers. Passwords never, anywhere.

Then the rules where you live, province by province — because almost nothing people say about wills and powers of attorney in Canada is true in all nine common-law provinces:

• What makes a will valid where you live, and what a handwritten one is actually worth

• The permission papers: what they are called in your province, who may witness them, and when they stop working

• The designation trap: the form at the bank that outranks the will

• What probate costs, from Nova Scotia's open-ended tax to Manitoba's $0

• What a written funeral wish binds, and the one province where it truly does

• Organ donation, province by province, including the two provinces with no online registry answer you would expect

Verified as of August 2026. Every legal fact in this book carries a printed source tag, the full source register is public at estatecanada.ca, and a dated changes page records what moves after printing. Where the law could not be confirmed, the book prints an honest open question rather than a confident guess.

The fillable pages are included. The access code printed in the back of the book unlocks fillable versions of the planner pages — platform-neutral PDFs with real type-into fields that open on a phone, a tablet, a library computer, or a ten-year-old laptop. No particular office software required.

Worked examples throughout follow one ordinary Canadian family, so no page is ever a blank grid. One hour gets the nine most important answers down; a weekend, taken one sitting at a time, finishes the rest.

Covers the nine common-law provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island. Quebec's civil-law system is different in kind, and this book says so honestly rather than blurring it.

From Estate Canada, the publisher of The Canadian Executor's First 30 Days — together, the only Canadian pair with a dated verification promise and a public source register behind both halves of the estate lifecycle.