How to Move to Canada: A Primer for Americans
By Terese Loeb Kreuzer and Carol Bennett
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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 you're thinking about moving or already have your bags packed, How to Move to Canada is for you. It's 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 Canada's 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 they'll need in order to make a run for the border.
Terese Loeb Kreuzer
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 co-author of How to Move to Canada. She is an honors graduate of Swarthmore College and lives in New York City.
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How to Move to Canada - Terese Loeb Kreuzer
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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 world’s tallest and newest mountains is the dot on an i
in Canada’s 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 City’s Plains of Abraham in