How to Move to Canada: A Primer for Americans by Terese Loeb Kreuzer (English) P

Description: How to Move to Canada by Terese Loeb Kreuzer, Carol Bennett Perfect for those in love with Canada (and thinking of living there), this is a straightforward guide for Americans moving north. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description An easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to calling Canada home More and more Americans are thinking of moving to Canada to find a job, attend colleges and universities, peace of mind---even retirement---and whatever their motivations, they will have to navigate the Canadian immigration, citizenship, and naturalization processes. So whether youre thinking about moving or already have your bags packed, How to Move to Canada is for you. Its a straightforward, friendly, informative handbook that delivers on its promise, providing readers with a thorough understanding of what to expect and where to get help and more information. How to Move to Canada offers: --A realistic appreciation of what Canada has to offer Americans --Snapshots of Canadas provinces and territories and their major cities --Interviews with immigration experts and Americans who have emigrated to Canada --An immigration checklist and a comprehensive list of resources to consult for more information --Real-life, hands-on perspectives, and invaluable advice How to Move to Canada makes the move north feel possible, supplying readers with a clear understanding of what theyll need in order to make a run for the border. Flap An easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to calling Canada home More and more Americans are thinking of moving to Canada for work, study, peace of mind---even retirement---and whatever their motivations, they will have to navigate the Canadian immigration and naturalization processes. So whether youre thinking about moving or already have your bags packed, How to Move to Canada is for you. Its a straightforward, friendly, informative handbook that delivers on its promise, providing readers with a thorough understanding of what to expect and where to get help and more information. How to Move to Canada offers: --A realistic appreciation of what Canada has to offer Americans --Snapshots of Canadas provinces and territories and their major cities --Interviews with immigration experts and Americans who have emigrated to Canada --An immigration checklist and a comprehensive list of resources to consult for more information --Real-life, hands-on perspectives, and invaluable advice How to Move to Canada makes the move north feel possible, supplying readers with a clear understanding of what theyll need in order to make a run for the border. Author Biography Terese Loeb Kreuzer is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Travel Arts Syndicate, which sells travel-related articles and photographs to newspapers and magazines in the United States and Canada. Her articles and photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star, and other publications. She formerly edited Michelin on Travel and Way to Go for The New York Times Syndicate. She is an honors graduate of Swarthmore College and lives in New York City. Her website is Carol Bennett, a reporter and actress, received her bachelor of arts from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a professional library degree from McGill University in Montreal. She was the host of a weekly television program, Modern Maturity, that aired nationally on PBS from 1986 to 1988 and for twenty years was the Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Alabama Radio Network. She has traveled extensively in Canada, where she has many relatives. She lives with her husband, architect Ralph D. Bennett, Jr., in Silver Spring, Maryland. Review "Easy-to-follow and comprehensive." --Publishers Weekly Review Quote "Easy-to-follow and comprehensive."--Publishers Weekly Excerpt from Book Chapter One Introduction: What Is Canada? It takes a night and half a day to get from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Jasper, Alberta, by train. But this trip through some of the worlds tallest and newest mountains is the dot on an "i" in Canadas great expanse. The second largest country in the world spans six time zones. It is largely uninhabited. The population of just over 32 million is roughly the same as the population of California. Most Canadians live within a hundred miles of the U.S. border. Human beings are thought to have first entered what is now Canada around 24,000 years ago, crossing the Bering Strait from Mongolia to present-day Alaska and then moving south. Native peoples are known to have lived in some parts of Canada for at least 10,000 years. Around a.d. 1000 Vikings settled on the coast of Newfoundland for around a decade but then left. The Frenchman Jacques Cartier was the next European of record to return. He sailed from St. Malo on April 20, 1534, with two ships and sixty-one men, looking for gold and a passage to Asia. He found instead a land "composed of stones and horrible rugged rocks," claiming it for France. Forty-nine years later, Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for England. This was the beginning of a conflict between the English and French for control of this territory that finally ended with the French defeat on Quebec Citys Plains of Abraham in 1759. However, the defeat was only partial. Canada has two official languages--English and French--and the Quebecois ("Quebecers" in English) have a culture distinct from the rest of Canada and a lingering sense of being second-class citizens in an English-speaking hegemony. Although many of Canadas premiers have been from Quebec, the provinces alliance with the rest of Canada has often been uneasy. The beaver is Canadas national animal, and rightly so. From the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, the European hunger for beaver skin hats was insatiable. Starting around 1600, explorers, trappers, and traders pushed farther and farther west, seeking beaver pelts. The Hudsons Bay Company, founded in 1670, and the North West Company, founded in 1783, were built on trading fur with natives and with the European trappers who learned from them. Seeking furs, in 1793, a Scot named Alexander Mackenzie first crossed the Rocky Mountains and made his way to the Pacific Ocean. The Hudsons Bay Company once controlled most of the land in modern Canada, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, from the Arctic Ocean to the Great Lakes. But the taste for beaver hats waned in favor of silk hats and less pricey furs. In 1870, the Hudsons Bay Company ceded most of its domain to the Dominion of Canada and became a department store supplying the needs of the farmers who flooded the prairies in response to Canadas offer of cheap land to anyone who would cultivate it. Because of its size, terrain, and climate, and because of its political history, Canada has not been an easy country to govern--certainly not at a distance. By the 1860s, with the value of Canadian furs diminished and the United States unstable and bloody from civil war, the British Crown was quite willing to let its colony take care of many of its own problems, including defense from its neighbor to the south. The British North America Act of 1867 established the Dominion of Canada as a confederation of provinces governed by a premier and a parliament in Ottawa. The first four provinces in the confederation were Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. The Statute of Westminster, signed in 1931, further loosened the ties with Britain, giving Canada control over its external affairs. Finally, the Constitution Act of 1982 (which Quebec refused to sign) allowed Canada to change its constitution without asking permission of the British government. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, guaranteeing Canadians freedom of religion, thought, belief, opinion, and expression, was part of that document. When Canadians talk about what it means to be Canadian, its often to this charter that they return as an expression of fundamental principles and beliefs. They also define themselves as a peacekeeping nation and as a nation with respect for law. "Peace, order, and good government" is how they put it--the "POGs." They will also tell you that they take care of one another. "Its not just a matter of public policy but of personal behavior," said Mary-Anne Hurley-Corbyn, who lives in New Brunswick. "I live in rural Canada," she said. "New Brunswick only has 750,000 people--but its very community-oriented." Canadas universal health care system is sometimes mentioned in this connection. In the fall of 2004, CBC Television initiated a contest to designate "the Greatest Canadian." The winner, with 1.1 million people voting, was Tommy Douglas, the Saskatchewan premier who spearheaded Canadas universal health care system. TV host George Stroumboulopoulos, who argued for Douglass "candidacy," said that if Douglas were removed from the national equation, "you remove the caring, sharing legacy of everything that we value. . . . This is our most treasured national characteristic." The name "Canada" first appeared on a map circa 1547, bestowed by Jacques Cartier after he heard the word on his second voyage of exploration. Two young Indian men on his ship used it to refer to a villa≥ Cartier thought they meant the whole country. As it turns out, though, Canadas influx of immigrants has made it one of the most multicultural nations in the world. Cartier may have been right. Canada has many characteristics of a village, whose inhabitants are mutually dependent and who believe that the well-being of one impacts the well-being of all. SNAPSHOT: Canada Location The northernmost country of the North American continent, bordered by the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and by the United States of America. The land border with the United States is 3,145 miles long. The water border is 2,380 miles. Canada touches the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska. Most of the border with the United States runs along the forty-ninth parallel. Canada extends from latitude 41 degrees 58 minutes N at Pelee Island in Lake Erie (the same latitude as Rome, Italy) to 83 degrees 7 minutes N at Cape Columbia on Ellesmere Island, well above the Arctic Circle and within five hundred miles of the North Pole. Canadas easternmost point is Cape Spear in Newfoundland (longitude 52 degrees 37 minutes W). The westernmost point is on the Yukon/Alaska border at 141 degrees W. It stretches 3,400 miles from coast to coast. From north to south, Canada covers 2,900 miles. Geography Canada is 3.8 million square miles in area, mostly plains, with mountains in the west and lowlands in the southeast. It has seven major geological regions centered on the Canadian Shield, an area of 500-million-year-old Precambrian rocks surrounding Hudson Bay like a crescent and extending over almost half of Canada. The Canadian Shield is rugged, covered with forests, and dotted with lakes and is rich in minerals. Much of it is inaccessible. Very little of it can be cultivated. Climate Temperate to Arctic. Proximity to water (the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Hudson Bay, and the Great Lakes) moderates the climate in many places. The prairies are among the coldest places in Canada and get more snow than the Arctic regions. Mountain ranges in the west also have an effect. The tall Coast Mountains shield the Yukon and parts of British Columbia from moist and temperate Pacific Ocean air, leaving them very cold in winter and hot in summer. Population 32,378,122 (est., October 2005) Capital Ottawa Provinces British Columbia; Alberta; Saskatchewan; Manitoba; Ontario; Quebec; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrad∨ Prince Edward Island. Territories Yukon; Northwest Territories; Nunavut. Population of Major Cities Toronto 4.5 million Montreal 3.4 million Vancouver 2 million Ottawa 1 million Ethnic Diversity English, Scottish, Irish 28 percent French 23 percent Other European 15 percent Asian/Arab/African 6 percent Indigenous Amerindian 2 percent Mixed Background 26 percent Religious Affiliations Catholic 44.4 percent Protestant 29 percent Other Christian 4.2 percent Muslim 2 percent Other 4 percent Languages English, French (official languages. Many others are widely used, particularly in areas with large immigrant populations). The Official Lan Details ISBN0312349866 Author Carol Bennett Language English ISBN-10 0312349866 ISBN-13 9780312349868 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2006 Short Title HT MOVE TO CANADA Subtitle A Primer for Americans Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrations, black and white DOI 10.1604/9780312349868 AU Release Date 2006-08-22 NZ Release Date 2006-08-22 US Release Date 2006-08-22 UK Release Date 2006-08-22 Pages 256 Publication Date 2006-08-22 DEWEY 917.1 Audience General Publisher St. Martins Griffin Imprint St. Martins Griffin We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:100561373;

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