With the closing statement for the island property and business, bank records showing the proceeds landing and moving, and the earlier records showing how the farm-stay was acquired and financed in the first place.
Trace the money from the island to the escrow
Hypothetical example: a Frontenac Islands couple will fund the campground purchase from the sale of a property that has been in one spouse's family for two generations and was converted into a farm-stay fifteen years ago. The officer needs to see that the funds were lawfully obtained and are the couple's to invest. The sale side is straightforward: the agreement of purchase and sale, the lawyer's statement of adjustments, the mortgage discharge and the bank statement showing the net proceeds.
The acquisition side is older but matters: the deed or estate documents showing how the property came to the family, and records of the renovation loans that built the business. Because the farm-stay produced years of income, the couple's tax returns for those years tie the business to the money. Any funds borrowed against Canadian assets they still own count as at-risk capital; funds borrowed against the campground itself do not.
A short narrative that links each document to the next helps. Hypothetical example: A Frontenac Islands craft-coffee roaster is funded from the sale of a long-held investment account. The first review should create a chronological source-of-funds chart from original account statements through the sale, tax reporting, transfer, and business escrow.
The brokerage statements settle the source; the wire confirmations settle the path. Mixing proceeds with untracked cash or a relative’s transfer makes a straightforward file difficult to verify.