We helped your parents buy their first house.
Maybe we're helping your kids buy theirs. That's what 55+ years means in practice: we've prepared Wills for grandparents, Powers of Attorney for their adult children, and now estate plans for grandchildren who started families of their own.
We've also seen the Fraser Valley change around us: from farmland to suburbs, from logging trucks to tech commuters, from small-town BC to one of the fastest-growing regions in the province. Through all of it, the work has stayed the same. Documents done properly. People treated well.
Three generations, one standard.
Bob Simpson established the firm in 1968 as R.W. Simpson Notary Public. He was one of the first notaries in British Columbia to practice exclusively as a notary public, and the first BC Notary Public to draw mortgages for Canadian chartered banks. When something needed to be done right, the banks trusted Bob to do it. That set the standard. Still does.
In 1981, his son Dean joined the practice, and the firm became Simpson and Simpson. Scott Simpson came aboard in 1992: three generations of one family building something that outlasts any one of them individually. In 2007, we moved to our current location and simplified the name to Simpson Notaries.
Many of our longtime clients, realtors, and bankers still call us Simpson and Simpson. Do we mind? Not a bit. Names change. What we do doesn't.
We don't learn on your transaction.
We've seen almost every situation you're facing. First-time homebuyers nervous about signing documents they don't fully understand: we've guided thousands through it. Families dealing with estate planning after a health scare: we've had that conversation more times than we can count. Couples refinancing because life changed. Parents transferring property to adult children. Divorces that need to stay civil. Inheritances that need handling properly.
What decades of files buys you is pattern recognition. The title issue that would delay your closing? We've spotted it in the search because we've seen it before. The estate planning structure that won't work the way you think? We catch it because we've watched what happens when it's done that way. The document that needs one more clause to prevent a future problem? We add it because we know what you don't know yet.
That's not something you can download. It's something you earn over fifty-five years.