Hello
Me and my friend are planning on coming to Canada to work and live for a year before travelling around the world next year .
We are looking to arrive in Canada around Sept time and do the tourist scene for a a month and then settle down into some steady work.
1- Has Anyone got any experience in working in Canada and what type of work is easily available to UK citizens , im a trained chef and also have done alot of bar work .
2- Where would be the best city to spend say 6 months just working and enjoying what Canada has to offer .
We are wanting to do the Ski season and see if we can get bar work or Chalet work .
Can anyone spread any light or good advise on what to do ? and where to go .
Also how cheap is Canada for day to day living ?
Thanks for any help
Lee
Reply to this Hi Lee!
Welcome to the Great White North!
Not only is what you are talking about feasible, it will be EASY to do.
What first came to mind in reading your email was the Calgary/Banff area in southern Alberta. Calgary is an absolute boomtown right now with essentially no unemployment and they are desperate for people to work in service industries like bar-tending and cooking. Banff is where the ski hills are, about 90 minutes drive west. It will be more difficult to land work there for the winter as there are fewer opportunities and most places will have already hired for the ski season. You might have better luck at Whistler if you want to work right at the ski village. Whistler is bigger and is 2 hours drive north of Vancouver. There are many other ski villages across the country that you might want to consider: Big White, SunPeaks and Silver Star near Kelowna, BC; Red Mountain at Rossland BC, Blue Mountain at Collingwood, Ontario and Mont Tremblant and Mont Ste Anne in Quebec. For the last two you are likely to need to be fluent in french. Anyway those are the big ones. Do a google search to find the website for each one and check job postings.... Good luck...
Reply to this Thanks Load for your advise i really appreciate it !
Just reading it makes me want to leave for Canada right now !
Looks like you guys had a good 5 month trip by the way .
cheers
lee
Reply to this Rossland is a quaint little town that I personally really love. Plently of ski bums in the winter and in the summer it offers some excellent downhill mountain biking. Depends on what kind of place you want to live... Working in Rossland would be a very different experience than in Whistler.
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