The pound is GBP to CAN$ 2.47m its highest level against the CAN$ for 11 years.

Definitely time to open that CAN acount!!

Clare

clare, i`m sure it was at $2.52 last year, whatever it`s still good, just wish i`d held on another week, i bought at $2.42 last week

My husband & I both come from Northampton & we now live a few miles away. I work in Milton keynes. We are hoping to get to Canada next year - PR pending. We are visiting in April, going to Toronto, Niagara for the touristy bit then onto the London area to have a look at housing etc and see where we will settle if PR sucessful.

This is becoming like the stock exchange now, make the most of your pound sterling for now people, because if what i heard was right, gordon brown is moving us into the Euro zone by the end of this year.

So start thinking in euros rather than the soon to be extinct pound. About time i say !

Not sure Gordon Brown is allowed to move Ontario to the Euro zone, although being Scottish you never know ;-)

What are you talking about?!? Here's what today's Financial Times has to say:
'In the Budget on March 17, Gordon Brown is expected to rubber-stamp the decision not to reassess the case for euro entry before the next general election.'

So as far as I'm aware that takes us through to 2005 at least!

The exchange rate has been dismal since we sold our property in the UK 10 months ago but it is picking up quite nicely now. We already have some money in our CIBC account in Vancouver which we changed at 2.54 a couple of years ago but the bulk of our money has just been moved out of our high interest account and into LLoyds. We have sterling, CDN and US dollar accounts with LLoyds and as soon as it hits 2.5 the bank has our authorisation to exchange the money and we will be very happy indeed.

You got a good rate though. I was wondering if it would ever pick up this year. We are taking a little flutter and exchanging £100K into US dollars at the same time as we reckon we will make a double whammy when the dollars start playing amongst themselves!

He he, I'm actually looking to move to the States, so have been keeping a closer eye on the US$ movements. Didn't realise the Canadian $ was suffering too! The US rate is expected to keep falling this year (look on the US forum), so might wanna hold off on putting your money into it right now!

Expat-wannabe

Thanks for that tip - may hold back a bit on the US dollars then.

Tia

.....i don't really think anyone gives a monkey to be honest.

I never said anyone should....but I sure do - and running the risk of repeating myself, it was someone else who first pointed out the gains to made.

Yes i am a Londoner ( very cosmopolitan) and am proud of it....

If you are so proud of it then why are you living in Canada and why do you always refer to the UK as home? Surely you should call Canada home, or have I missed something here?

The site is for canadian lifestyle and culture......

Yes and that is what I am conversing on, duh.....Canadian Dollars.

You need to look up the dicitonary to find out the meaning of snobby. I am being factual, not snobby. I don't THINK I have and look down on others- I KNOW I have and I KNOW I don't.

Ye, ye, I've got the measure of you, you're one of these miserable, always complaining Victor Mildrew characters. I have read a number of your posts and there is barely one which doesn't inflict your incessant whining on us. You criticise Canada and pretty much anything else which doesn't fit neatly into your SMALL world. Old bloke, I bet with nothing better to do!!!!!

I criticise Canada? I think you got the wrong bloke woman, i love this country, and that is one of the reason i decided to move here, otherwise, my wife would have moved to London instead.

Am not an old bloke, am 30yrd old and loving every moment of it here. so before you carry on with your unremiting b****, read my posts again. Big word that innit? yes i know....i did go to kings college london after all, finishing with a 1st :-)


gunner

Oh! There must be two Gunners on this forum, my mistake. It must have been the other Gunner that posts the whinging threads.

Yaaaaawn, I don't envy your wife then........she's got another 40 years of you, thank goodness most of us don't.

$2.487, betting better and better


unless your going back to the uk of course

up we go $2.492, should soon be 2 1/2 good news for anyone coming soon

Latest on the exchange rate, just to let you know. With interest rates going up and all that, i don't think you are going to get anything better than this for a while


1.00 GBP
United Kingdom Pounds = 2.48785 CAD
Canada Dollars