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                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.26

THIS AGREEMENT DATED THE 1ST DAY OF APRIL, 2004

BETWEEN:

            COMMONWEALTH SEAGER HOLDINGS LTD.
            (the "Corporation"),

                                        OF THE FIRST PART

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            CORRTECH CONSULTING GROUP,
            a Corporate Partnership
            (the "Consultant"),

                                        OF THE SECOND PART

                              CONSULTING AGREEMENT

   WHEREAS the Corporation is the registered owner of all of the issued common
shares of Corrpro Canada, Inc. and, in turn, owns certain other entities (the
"Subsidiaries).

   AND WHEREAS the Corporation intends to continue to operate the Subsidiaries;

   AND WHEREAS the Consultant is in the business of providing managerial,
administrative, engineering, marketing and technical services (the "Consulting
Services");

   AND WHEREAS the Corporation desires the Consultant to render the Consulting
Services to the Corporation, its Subsidiaries and Affiliates in accordance with
provisions of this contract;

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   AND WHEREAS the Consultant is a corporate partnership consisting of the
corporations listed in Schedule "A' attached hereto;

   AND WHEREAS the corporate members of the partnership shall make available the
key individuals listed on Schedule "B" (the "Key Individuals") attached hereto
to supply to the Corporation the Consulting Services;

   NOW THEREFORE WITNESSETH that in consideration of the recitals and mutual
covenants and agreements contained herein and other good and valuable
consideration, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. SERVICES

   (a)  ENGAGEMENT

        The Corporation hereby engages the Consultant and the Consultant hereby
        agrees to render, at the request of the Corporation Consulting Services
        to the Corporation, its Subsidiaries and Affiliates, to the best of its
        ability, and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.

   (b)  DUTIES

        (i)   The Consultant shall provide, through the Key Individuals, to
              standards acceptable to the Corporation such management,
              administrative, engineering, marketing, and technical services as
              are necessary to ensure the continued operations of the
              Corporation, the Subsidiaries, and the Affiliates.

        (ii)  In the event any of the Key Individuals are unable or fail for any
              reason to perform the Consulting Services as requested of that Key
              Individual to standards acceptable to the

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              Corporation, then the Consultant may designate a third person or
              persons of equal or greater ability and qualifications to provide
              the consulting services the Key Individual is unable to provide.

        (iii) It is understood and agreed that a Key Individual shall not be
              substituted without the written consent of the Corporation and
              agreement as to adjustment in compensation, if any.

2. COMPENSATION

   (a)  As compensation for all services rendered by the Consultant, pursuant to
        this Agreement, the Corporation shall pay to the Consultant or such
        designates, a monthly sum which is agreed to from time to time being a
        base of Sixty Seven Thousand Four Hundred Thirty Three Dollars and
        Thirty Three Cents ($67,433.33) (CDN) plus Goods and Services Tax
        ("G.S.T.").

   (b)  All such compensation shall be payable without deductions whatsoever.
        The Consultant shall be responsible for the remission of any and all
        taxes with respect to compensation paid to the Consultant by the
        Corporation under this Agreement. The Consultant shall indemnify the
        Corporation for any and all taxes and other liabilities which the
        Corporation may hereafter incur as a result of the Consultant's or any
        of the Key Individuals' failure to report and pay any taxes due on
        taxable amounts paid to or on behalf of the Consultant by the
        Corporation.

   (c)  As additional compensation, the parties contemplate that the Consultant
        may be entitled to bonuses from time to time, based on the performance
        of the Corporation, the Subsidiaries and as mutually agreed upon by the
        parties.

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3. TERMS

   (a) The parties hereto acknowledge that the term of this Agreement shall be
   for a period of one (1) year commencing on the lst day of April, 2004 and
   ending on the 31st day of March, 2005, unless sooner terminated pursuant to
   this Agreement.

4. OPERATION OF SUBSIDIARIES

   (a)  Insofar as it is the intent that the Consultant shall provide Consulting
        Services directly to the Corporation, its subsidiaries, and Affiliates,
        the parties hereto acknowledge that all consulting services rendered to
        the Corporation are governed and bound by this Agreement.

   (b)  The Corporation shall guarantee the due performance and obligations of
        all agreements that the subsidiaries and the Affiliates may enter into
        with Consultant pursuant hereto.

5. TIME COMMITMENT AND PERFORMANCE

   (a)  The Consultant shall ensure that such key Individuals that perform
        services pursuant to this Agreement shall devote their best efforts and
        substantially all of their business time, attention and skill to the
        performance of the Consulting Services hereunder and shall do so at all
        times in a manner consistent with the intention of this Agreement and in
        accordance with good managerial, administrative, engineering, marketing
        and technical practice, including without limitation, the adherence to
        professional rules of conduct.

   (b)  The consultant shall ensure that each Key Individual;

        (i)   specializing in a branch of professional engineering shall at all
              time be a member of the Association of Professional Engineers;

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        (ii)  specializing in a branch of engineering technology shall at all
              times be a member of the Association of Engineering Technologists;

        (iii) specializing in accounting services shall at all times be a member
              of a recognized accounting body in Canada.

6. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

   (a)  The Consultant will have access to the Corporation's confidential
        information including, without limitation, customer lists and
        information and data or relating to its customers. Such information and
        data is understood to include all information and data relating to the
        Corporation's or the customer's project and administrative files,
        drawings, sketches, plans, designs and business data. The Consultant
        agrees to accept and retain such information and data in confidence and,
        at all times during or after the termination of this Agreement, not to
        disclose or reveal such information and data to others and to refrain
        from using such information and data for purposes other than those
        authorized by the Corporation. At the request of the Corporation, the
        Consultant will promptly turn over to the Corporation all of the
        Corporation's written or descriptive material in the Consultant's
        possession or under its control. This section is not intended to
        restrict the use by the Consultant of its own intellectual property
        which does not relate to the Corporation's confidential information
        after the termination hereof.

   (b)  All project and administrative files, drawings, sketches, plans,
        designs, trade secrets and any other documentation or data furnished to
        or prepared by the Consultant in connection with this Agreement shall be
        the property of the Corporation.

   (c)  The consultant shall, after termination of this Agreement for any reason
        whatsoever unless

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        terminated by the Corporation, upon reasonable notice and upon payment
        of reasonable expenses by the Corporation, furnish such information and
        proper assistance to the Corporation as may be reasonably required by
        the Corporation in connection with any litigation in which it is or may
        become a party other than litigation by the Corporation against the
        Consultant, its Partners, or the Key Individuals.

7. POST-TERMINATION OBLIGATIONS

   (a)  The consultant has carefully read and considered the provisions of this
        Section and, having done so, agrees that the restrictions set forth in
        this Section are fair and reasonable and are reasonably required for the
        protection of the interests of the Corporation. The Consultant, during
        the term of this Agreement, further acknowledges and agrees that it will
        be assigned duties that will give it knowledge of confidential and
        proprietary information which relates to the conduct and details of the
        Corporation's business including the Corporation's customers and
        marketing programs, and which may result in irreparable injury to the
        Corporation if the Consultant should engage in competition with the
        Corporation involving the Corporation's Existing Customers or
        Prospective Customers.

   (b)  The Consultant agrees with, and for the benefit of, the Corporation that
        the Consultant shall not without the prior written approval of the
        Corporation during the term of this Agreement with the Corporation or at
        any time within the period of time set forth below following the date of
        termination of this Agreement however caused, either directly or as a
        partner, joint venturer, shareholder, or otherwise in conjunction with
        any person or persons, firm, association, syndicate, company or
        corporation, as principal, agent, consultant, investor or in any other

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        manner whatsoever, directly or indirectly, carry on, be engaged in, be
        interested in, or by concerned with, or permit its name or any part
        thereof to be used or employed by any such person or persons, firm
        association, syndicate, company or corporation, carrying on, engaged in,
        interested in, or concerned with, a business which is similar to the
        Business and which involves any Existing Customer or any Prospective
        Customer for a period of one (1) Year following the termination of this
        Agreement:

        (i)    the Provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and
               Manitoba;

        (ii)   any Province of Canada in which the Business is or may in the
               future be carried on;

        (iii)  any Province of Canada;

        (iv)   Canada;

        (v)    any state in the United States of America in which the Business
               or may in the future be carried on;

        (vi)   the United States of America;

        (vii)  any part of the world in which the Business is or may in the
               future be carried on; or

        (viii) the world.

   (c)  The Consultant represents and warrants to the Corporation that it has
        not previously signed a confidentiality or non-completion agreement of
        any kind whatsoever with another party which would impair its ability to
        carry out its duties hereunder.

8. MEANINGS

   For the purposes of this Agreement as referenced in Articles 6 and 7, the
   following terms will have the

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    meanings set out below:

    (a)  "Business" shall mean those businesses carried on by the Corporation,
         its Subsidiaries and Affiliates (for purposes of this Section, any
         entity Ten (10%) Percent or more of which is owned by the Corporation)
         directly or indirectly of the Corporation from time to time;

    (b)  "Existing Customers" means an individual, firm, body corporate, joint
         venture or trust with whom the Corporation, its Subsidiaries and
         Affiliates is currently conducting Business or in the past has
         conducted Business; and

    (c)  "Prospective Customer" means an individual, firm, body corporate, joint
         venture or trust with whom the Corporation, its Subsidiaries and
         Affiliates is currently discussing Business or to whom or in connection
         with whom the Corporation, its Subsidiaries and Affiliates has made a
         proposal regarding Business.

9.  TERMINATION BY THE CORPORATION

    This Agreement may be terminated at the option of the Corporation upon the
    happening of any of the following events:

    (a)  the dissolution of the Consultant;

    (b)  upon the consultant becoming bankrupt or insolvent;

    (c)  upon the failure of the Consultant to comply with any of the
         substantive terms and conditions of this Agreement.

10. TERMINATION BY THE CONSULTANT

    The Agreement may be terminated at the option of the Consultant upon the
    happening of any of the

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    following events:

    (a)  upon the Corporation becoming bankrupt or insolvent;

    (b)  upon the Corporation failing to perform its duties hereunder in a
         manner required by the Consultant, including the due performance by any
         of its Subsidiaries and Affiliates.

11. ARBITRATION

    All disputes and questions which shall arise during the term of this
    Agreement between the Corporation and the Consultant touching this Agreement
    or the construction or application thereof or any clause or thing herein
    contained or as to any manner in any way relating to the rights, duties and
    liabilities of any party under this Agreement shall be referred to a single
    arbitrator in case the parties agree upon one; otherwise to two arbitrators,
    one to be appointed by each party. The two arbitrators so appointed shall by
    instructed to attempt to reach agreement on a third arbitrator and that
    third arbitrator, together with the arbitrators appointed by the disputants,
    shall determine all questions. In the event that the parties appointed are
    unable to agree on an arbitrator, then the parties, or either of them, may
    apply to any Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, to appoint
    the third arbitrator and in all other respects the provisions of the
    Arbitrators Act of the Province of Alberta shall apply.

12. SEVERABILITY

    The provisions contained in this Agreement are severable and in the event
    any provision shall be held to be invalid, unenforceable or overbroad, in
    whole or in part, by a court of other entity of competent jurisdiction, the
    remainder of such provision and of this Agreement shall not be affected
    thereby and shall remain in full force and effect.

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13. This Agreement supersedes all previous agreements between the parties.

14. NOTICES

    Any notice, direction or other instrument required or permitted to be given
    under the provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and may be given
    by the delivery of same or sending by facsimile transmission to the parties:

    (a)  In the case of the Corporation to:

                         Mr. Joseph Lahey
                         Corrpro Companies, Inc.
                         1055 West Smith Road
                         MEDINA, Ohio 44256
                         Fax: (330) 723-0694

                         and to:

                         Robert V. Lloyd, Q.C.
                         Ogilvie LLP
                         Barristers and Solicitors
                         1400, 10303 Jasper Avenue
                         Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3N6
                         Fax: (403) 429-4453

         or to such other person or address as the Corporation shall furnish to
         the Consultant in writing pursuant to the above.

    (b)  In the case of the Consultant to:

                         c/o Garry G. Wetsch, Q.C.
                         Peterson Hustwick Wetsch & Moffat
                         Barristers and Solicitors

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                         200, 9707 - 110 Street
                         Edmonton, Alberta  T5K 2L9
                         Fax: (403) 482-6613

                         and to:

                         c/o Barry W. Schadeck
                         Corrtech Partnership
                         10848 - 214 Street
                         Edmonton, Alberta T5S 2A7
                         Fax: (403) 447-3215

         or to such other person or address as the Consultant shall furnish to
         the Corporation in writing pursuant to the above.

    Any such notice, direction or other instrument shall:

    (a)  If delivered, be handed to an adult person at the designated address,
         and shall be deemed to have been given or received on the day on which
         it was so delivered if delivered prior to 3:00 o'clock P.M. (local
         time) on a Business Day. If delivered after 3:00 P.M. (local time) or
         if not a Business Day, then it shall have been deemed to have been
         given or received on the Business Day next following the day of
         delivery.

    (b)  If mailed, shall be mailed by prepaid registered or certified post from
         a post office within the Province of Alberta, and shall be deemed to
         have been given or received on the fifth (5th) Business Day following
         the date of mailing.

    (c)  If sent by facsimile transmission, it shall be deemed to have been
         given or received on the next Business Day following the day of
         confirmed transmission. "Business Day" where used in this Agreement
         shall mean a day in which the offices of the Provincial Government of
         Alberta are open for business.

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15. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

    The provisions hereof shall enure to the benefit of and shall be binding
    upon the parties hereto, their successors and assigns.

16. JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

    The parties hereto agree that this contract shall be government and
    construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Alberta.

17. AMENDMENT

    The parties hereto covenant and agree to execute such further and other
    undertakings as may be required to properly give effect to the intention of
    this Agreement.

18. TIME

    Time is of the essence in this Agreement.

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    IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have hereunto affixed their corporate
    seals by the hands of their proper officers in that behalf as of the date
    and year first above written.

COMMONWEALTH SEAGER HOLDINGS LTD.                      CORRTECH CONSULTING GROUP

PER: _______________________                  PER:_________________________

PER: _______________________                  PER: _____________________________

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                                  SCHEDULE "A"

                              LIST OF CORPORATIONS

                               MIKAR HOLDINGS LTD.

                              TONTINE HOLDINGS LTD.

                              PHYRON HOLDINGS LTD.

                              GRAMARR HOLDINGS LTD.

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                                  SCHEDULE "C"

                 LIST OF KEY INDIVIDUALS AND ANNUAL COMPENSATION

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BARRY W. SCHADECK                                               $ 260,000

GRANT G. FIRTH                                                  $ 149,000

RONALD E. GINTHER                                               $ 181,000

DONALD G. MARR                                                  $ 219,200
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