Thanks to my buddy Grip Addict, got my hands on some auto history reports. CarFax is the most detailed, per usual. Check this out though, it gets pretty interesting. The car was bought back by BMW and branded a 'lemon', ended up at a manufacturer auction in Michigan and sold to a Canadian buyer.
I'm surprised the buy-back happened at such low miles, I didn't recall that. Barely a full tank of gas!
This is what concerns me, although hopefully that with such high miles as well as the age of the vehicle, that it was not major damage and just a total due to the other factors. Trying to find the car through one of the car auctions in Saskatchewan, no idea how to proceed so if anyone has any advice - feel free to lay it on me! Will update in future.