Dividends

Registered shareholders who wish to continue to receive their dividends in Canadian dollars will be able to elect to do so by contacting our transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc. 

Computershare
Transfer Agent, Registrar and Dividend Disbursing & Shareholder Rights Plan Agent
Online
1-800-564-6253 (toll-free in Canada and U.S.)
1-514-982-7555 (international direct dial)

Computershare will provide a Dividend Currency Election Form to registered shareholders. Registered shareholders should mark their preferred currency to receive dividends in that form and return it to Computershare.

Unless a currency election is received, future dividends will be paid in U.S. dollars. Once a shareholder has made a dividend currency election it will stand so until notified otherwise.

Any questions or requests for assistance may be directed to Computershare at the address or telephone numbers listed below:

‍Phone: 1-800-564-6253 (toll-free in Canada and the United States) 
Between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm Eastern Time or 514-982-7555 (international direct dial).

‍Fax: 1-888-453-0330

‍Online: www.computershare.com

‍Mail: Computershare Investor Services, 100 University Ave., 8th Floor, North Tower, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2Y1 Canada
 

If you are in possession of a physical share certificate in your name or your shares are held in book entry form through the direct registration system (DRS), and you appear as the registered shareholder in the records of West Fraser’s transfer agent, you are a “registered shareholder” and your name and address are known to West Fraser through its transfer agent, Computershare.

Beneficial shareholders (also known as “non-registered shareholders”) who wish to continue to receive their dividends in Canadian dollars should contact their brokers and instruct them to make relevant elections on their behalf. Unless a currency election is received, future dividends will be paid in U.S. dollars.

If you own shares through a bank, trust company, securities broker, trustee or other intermediary and are not a registered shareholder then you are a “beneficial” shareholder and you will not have a physical share certificate. In this case, you will have an account statement from your bank or broker as evidence of your share ownership. 

Most retail shareholders are beneficial shareholders. The shares of beneficial shareholders are registered in the name of an intermediary, such as a bank, trust company, securities broker, trustee or other intermediary who holds the shares in a nominee account or in the name of such intermediary, or in the name of a clearing agency in which the intermediary is a participant.