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( 01 )Hometown Service Area

Grande Prairie's own brokerfor families and businesses that build.

This is home. Tanya Michel lives, rides, and works in the Peace Country — and brings the kind of insurance strategy usually reserved for downtown towers to the businesses, farms, and families of Grande Prairie and the communities around it.

( 02 )Serving The Peace Country

Advice from someone who knows what you're building.

Grande Prairie earns its living differently: energy services and trades, agriculture and equipment, professionals serving a fast-growing region, and family businesses that carry real weight on personal guarantees. Insurance advice here has to respect that reality — incomes that flex with activity, corporations doing the heavy lifting, and estates where land and iron outweigh cash.

Tanya has spent nine years in the industry — six of them independent — serving exactly this community. Her practice runs from family protection and critical illness coverage through to the advanced file: corporate-owned policies, Capital Dividend Account strategies, buy-sell funding, and estate liquidity for operations that shouldn’t be split to pay a tax bill.

Meetings happen the way the Peace Country prefers: straight, prepared, and flexible — in person around Grande Prairie, or by phone and video across the region from Beaverlodge to High Prairie. And when the plan involves your accountant, she’d rather they were on the call from the start.

Tanya Michel is a licensed Alberta insurance broker regulated by the Alberta Insurance Council — serving Grande Prairie and northwestern Alberta, with clients also served in BC’s neighbouring Peace region under her BC licence.
( 03 )Communities Served

Grande Prairie and every road out of it.

Grande Prairie
County of Grande Prairie
Clairmont
Sexsmith
Wembley
Beaverlodge
Hythe
Valleyview
Fox Creek
Fairview
Peace River
High Prairie
Grande Cache
Spirit River
Dawson Creek, BC
Fort St. John, BC
( 04 )What Tanya Offers Locally

City-calibre strategy, Peace Country delivery.

Family protection

Life and critical illness coverage sized to real households — mortgages, kids, and single-point incomes included.

Trades & energy services

Coverage built for incorporated operators whose income and insurability both deserve protecting early.

Farm & ranch transition

Estate liquidity that lets land pass whole and equalizes the kids who left the farm.

Corporate-owned strategies

Corporate-dollar funding and CDA pathways for local businesses and professional corporations.

Buy-sell funding

Partner agreements funded properly — so the business survives its worst day.

Estate & legacy design

From final-expense simplicity to multi-generation wealth transfer — matched to the family, not a template.

The same strategies a Calgary tower would charge downtown rates to design — built here, by a neighbour, with Peace Country practicality.

( 05 )Why Grande Prairie Chooses Tanya

Local isn't a tagline — it’s underwriting.

( I )

She knows the ground

Horses out back, clients up and down Highway 43 — Tanya understands seasonal income, equipment debt, and what a quarter section means to a family, because she lives where those things are true.

( II )

Independent for the client

Canada's major insurers, compared side by side; recommendations that follow your numbers — including when the answer is inexpensive term coverage.

( III )

Available like a neighbour

In-person around Grande Prairie, virtual across the region, evenings when the workday runs long — and answers in plain language every time.

( 06 )Common Questions

Working with Tanya locally, answered plainly.

Can we meet in person in Grande Prairie?+
Yes — in-person meetings around Grande Prairie and area are welcome, and virtual or phone consultations serve the wider Peace Country from Valleyview to Fort St. John. Whatever's easiest for your schedule and season.
Does Tanya work with farms and agricultural operations?+
Extensively. Land-rich estates, equipment-heavy balance sheets, and one-child-farms-two-don't successions are Peace Country staples — and insurance is usually the cleanest funding for the tax bill and the equalization both.
I run an incorporated trades company — where do we start?+
With the structure you already have: corporate-dollar funding for the coverage you need personally, key protection the banks will appreciate, and — as retained earnings grow — CDA-aware permanent strategies that eventually move surplus home tax-efficiently, subject to CRA rules.
What does the first meeting cost?+
Nothing, and it comes with no obligation: an hour on your goals, your structure, and your current coverage, followed by a plain-language summary of gaps and options. If we proceed, every recommendation arrives with the reasoning attached.
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( 07 )Begin The Conversation

Big-city strategy. Hometown handshake.

Book a consultation — coffee in Grande Prairie or a call from the field, whichever the week allows.

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()Book Your Consultation

Choose a time. The strategy hour is on Tanya.

Pick any open slot — the calendar is live. One relaxed, plain-language conversation about what you've built and what you want it to do. No cost, no obligation, no pressure.

  • Complimentary & no obligation
  • Virtual across AB · BC · ON
  • Evenings available
  • Your accountant welcome to join
30-minute consultation · Live availability
Licensing & Regulation. Tanya Michel is a licensed insurance broker serving clients in Alberta (regulated by the Alberta Insurance Council — Licence # [confirm]), British Columbia (regulated by the Insurance Council of British Columbia — Licence # [confirm]), and Ontario (regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario — Licence # [confirm]). Insurance products are issued by Canadian life insurance companies; features, values, and guarantees are governed by the terms of each policy contract. Tax outcomes depend on your personal circumstances and current legislation — always consult your accountant, lawyer, or tax professional before acting.