Resources
Useful resources for expats in Canada.
- Immigration terminology
- We've drawn together some of the more common terms you might come across if you're planning to emigrate to Canada.
- Immigration abbreviations (A-D)
- Immigrating to Canada involves wading through a sea of alphabet soup! Here are some of the more common terms you'll come across.
- Immigration abbreviations (E-L)
- Immigrating to Canada involves wading through a sea of alphabet soup! Here are some of the more common terms you'll come across.
- Immigration abbreviations (M-Z)
- Immigrating to Canada involves wading through a sea of alphabet soup! Here are some of the more common terms you'll come across.
- Canada Pension Plan
- A brief introduction to one of the main planks of Canada's social services; the mandatory state pension scheme.
- Canada Employment Insurance
- Something of a misnomer, this - Employment Insurance is actually Canada's equivalent of unemployment benefit.
- Canada's retraining programs
- If a company goes bust in Canada, retraining programs are there to help the redundant workforce find new employment.
- Getting around Canada
- How to make your way across the vast expanses of the world's second largest country!
- Getting around Canada: Townships and concession roads
- Most of Ontario and southern Quebec benefits from an orderly parcelling-up of land which makes it really easy to find your way around, even at night in the middle of nowhere.
- Getting around Canada: Snowmobiles
- How do you get to the shops in Canada when there's snow everywhere? By snowmobile, of course!
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- The RCMP - the Mounties - are Canada's national police service.
- Canada: Electricity
- With half of Canada's electricity coming from hydro power and most of the rest from nuclear, fossil fuels are on a steep decline.
- Provincial abbreviations
- Each of the provinces of Canada has its own two-letter abbreviation - here's a handy list of them.
- Expat websites
- A collection of useful websites for expats in Canada.



