Every hop needs its own documents. The petition must establish that the funds were lawfully obtained and must trace their path from origin to the enterprise, so a corporate intermediary and a gift each add a link that must be evidenced rather than explained.
Document each link, including the ones you did not create
Build the chain on paper before the money moves. Hypothetical example: an investor from Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover funds a project from two streams — the sale of a commercial building held through a numbered Quebec company, and a gift from her father — and assumes a lawyer’s letter summarising both will do. It will not.
The corporate stream needs the sale agreement, the company’s tax filings reporting the disposition, the corporate bank statements, the directors’ resolution declaring a dividend or approving a shareholder loan repayment, and her personal receipt of the money. The gift needs a deed, evidence of the transfer itself, and her father’s own lawful source for the amount he gave, which people find intrusive and which is nonetheless standard. Add the foreign exchange conversion records and the final wire instructions.
Two practical rules make this manageable: gather the documents at the time of each transaction rather than afterwards, and avoid pooling funds in an account that mixes several sources, because untangling one later is slow and sometimes impossible.