EX-3.1 3 dex31.txt ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY PARTNERS INC. EXHIBIT 3.1 Industry Canada Industrie Canada ELECTRONIC RAPPORT DE LA TRANSACTION REPORT TRANSACTION ELECTRONIQUE Canada Business Loi canadienne sur ARTICLES OF Corporations Act les societes par INCORPORATION STATUTS CONSTITUTES actions (SECTION 6) (ARTICLE 6) Processing Type - Mode de Traitement: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Name of Corporation - Denomination de la societe North American Energy Partners Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. The province or territory in Canada where the registered office is to be situated - La province ou le territoire au Canada oir se situera le siege social AB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. The classes and any maximum number of shares that the corporation is authorized to issue - Categories et le nombre maximal d'actions que la societe est autorisee a emettre The annexed Schedule 1 is incorporated in this form. L'anexe 1 ci-jointe fait partie integrante de la presente formule. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Restrictions, if any, on share transfers - Restrictions sur le transfert de actions, s'il y a lieu The annexed Schedule 2 is incorporated in this form. L'annexe 2 ci-jointe fait partie integrante de la presente formule. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Number (or minimum and maximum number) of directors - Nombre (ou nombre minimal et maximal) d-administrateurs Minimum:1 Maximmum: 10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Restrictions, if any, on business the corporation may carry on - Limites imposes a 1'activite commerciale de la societe , s'il y a lieu The annexed Schedule 3 is incorporated in this form. L'annexe 3 ci-jointe fait partie integrante de la presente formule. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Other provisions, if any - Autres dispositions, s'il y a lieu The annexed Schedule 4 is incorporated in this form. L'annexe 4 ci-jointe fait partie integrante de la presente formule. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Incorporators - Fondateurs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name(s) - Nom(s) Address (including postal code) - Signature Adresse (inclur le code postal) FRANCIS S. CALLAGHAN 68 BROOKE AVENUE, TORONTO, ONTARIO, FRANCIS CALLAGHAN CANADA, M5M 219 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canada SCHEDULE / ANNEXE 1 3. The classes and any maximum number of shares that the corporation is authorized to issue: The corporation is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common shares. SCHEDULE / ANNEXE 2 4. Restrictions, if any, on share transfers: No share or shares of the corporation shall at any time be transferred to any person without either (a) the consent of the directors to be signified by a resolution passed by the board or by an instrument or instruments in writing signed by a majority of the directors, or (b) the consent of the shareholders of the corporation to be signified by a resolution passed by the shareholders or by an instrument or instruments in writing signed by the holders of the shares of the corporation representing a majority of the votes attributable to all of the issued and outstanding shares of the corporation. SCHEDULE / ANNEXE 3 None. SCHEDULE / ANNEXE 4 7. Other provisions: The number of shareholders of the corporation, exclusive of persons who are in its employment and exclusive of persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the corporation, were, while in that employment, and have continued after the termination of that employment to be, shareholders of the corporation, is limited to not more than fifty, two or more persons who are the joint registered owners of one or more shares being counted as one shareholder. Any invitation to the public to subscribe for securities of the corporation is prohibited. Subject to the provisions of the Canada Business Corporations Act, the corporation shall have a lien on the shares registered in the name of a shareholder or such shareholder's legal representative for a debt of that shareholder to the corporation. The board of directors may from time to time on behalf of the corporation, without authorization of the shareholders: (1) borrow money on the credit of the corporation; (2) issue, reissue, sell, pledge or hypothecate bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the corporation, whether secured or unsecured; (3) give a guarantee on behalf of the corporation to secure performance of any present or future indebtedness, liability or obligation of any person; and (4) mortgage, hypothecate, pledge or otherwise create a security interest in all or any currently owned or subsequently acquired real or personal, movable or immovable, property of the corporation including book debts, rights, powers, franchises and undertakings, to secure any such bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness or any guarantees or any other present or future indebtedness, liability or obligation of the corporation, The board of directors may from time to time delegate to such one or more of the directors and officers of the corporation as may be designated by the board all or any of the powers conferred on the board above to such extent and in such manner as the board shall determine at the time of such delegation.
Industry Canada Industrie Canada FORM 4 FORMULE 4 ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT CLAUSES MODIFICATRICES Canada Business Loi canadienne sur les (SECTION 27 OR 177) (ARTICLES 27 OU 177) Corporations Act societes par actions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1- Name of the Corporation - Denomination sociale de la societe 2 - Corporation number - NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY PARTNERS INC. 615088-8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3- The articles of the above-named corporation are amended as follows: Les status de la societe mentionnee ci-dessus sont modifies de la facon suivante: 1. To change the number of directors to a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 20. 2. To delete the following paragraph from Other Provisions: Any invitation to the public to subscribe for securities of the corporation is prohibited. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date Signature 4-Capacity of - En November 21, 2003 qualite de /s/ Kent Wallace Secretary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Department Use Only Printed Name - Nom en letters moulees Al'usage du ministere seulement Filed Kent Wallace Deposee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------