JRich

I'm sorry if this wastes anyone's time but it's proving a little hard to find solid info else where...

Where are the best places in Canada to work (as a truck driver)... But be close to bears and awesome wildlife, especially bears when at home?

Thanks

Beaverstate

Rural BC no doubt.

christmasoompa

Do you already have PR?

It's just that if you don't, as a truck driver, you're not going to have much choice in which province you go to.

Even before the LMIA changes most truckers went to either MB or SK as that's where the demand was, but now it's even more limited as there seem to be almost no companies still hiring foreign workers! So unless you're already work authorised for Canada, you may just need to go wherever you can find an employer, regardless of the wildlife.

Once you've got PR (which isn't possible for truckers in all provinces, so that's another limitation to check in to), you can then move wherever you wish.

HTH, best of luck.

JRich

Thanks. No I'm still in the Uk but have wanted to move for some time. Is this an unlikely choice now? Will the LMIA problems iron out do you think?

If a company can only employ 30% of its workforce as immigrants... Is that canada wide or local. As i know a few companies who are nationwide in multiple states.

Thanks

christmasoompa

It's per worksite, and it's reducing down to 10% in time. The 'LMIA problems' are actually solving problems for Canada, so although it's not great for you, it's been a big success there, and I can't see it changing anytime soon.

I don't think it's an unlikely choice, but I do think you won't get much of a choice (if any) in where you end up, so I would focus on trying to find an employer prepared to sponsor you and then be prepared to just go wherever that is, even if it's somewhere without a bear within a 1000kms.

Do you have any other visa options, maybe a wife/partner that is more likely to get a job offer or qualify for a visa without a job offer being needed?

MillieF

JRich....there is a truckers forum if you go to the Living and Moving Abroad bar at the top of the page. I think you'll find lots of helpful advice on there.

As for the wildlife...we don't have Grizzly Bears in the East, but I think most places in Canada in rural settings come with a checklist of animals and fantastic scenery.

Woodstock, not too far from me, has a number of trucking companies, and I remember that a couple of posters here have come with them via that route.

Best of luck

iaink

I doubt there is anywhere in Canada where you could be 1000km from the nearest bear

Souvy

Why would anyone want to be close to a bear? Why indeed would a bear want to be close to a human?

This has been posted before but it's worth repeating.

Grizzly Bear Warning Sign | Outdoor Oddities

caretaker

There are lots of black bears around Trail, I saw this one at Paulson Summit last year.

Tirytory

Never mind the bear....look at that crack in the windscreen

withabix

They come fitted as standard...

scrubbedexpat091

I've seen at least one bear in almost every city I have lived in over here in BC, Vancouver was the only place where I didn't see one, but they are certainly in North Vancouver, but Vancouver may just be too hard to get to for the bears these days.

I see a few every year where I am now, usually in the spring after they wake up and want food and trash is easy food, then not so much in summer when food in the wild is more plentiful, and then they come back around right before going into sleep mode for winter, again trash is easy way for them to bulk up.


If you leave cat food in a bowl in your back yard around here, a bear will usually find it, or if you have an apple tree, berry bush, any fruit producing tree really will attract the bears.

Shirtback

At the risk of sounding daft re bolded by me: errr, why????

S, bemused...

MillieF

I would love to see a bear...just not terribly closely! I work with a bunch of people who hike, run and camp outdoors all year round and they've never seen very many bears, but we have lots in NB. They've said that the know they are near but they just don't come out. A colleague has a bear that regularly sits on her back deck though.

My son makes enough noise when we go for a walk That I will never see any wildlife...ever

Do you remember the poster we had last year (I think) who had one come into their kitchen and filmed it on the phone?

woodworm

At the moment , I work for a company that operates polar bear tours in Churchill and I can't believe how many people pay thousands of dollars for a few days to see a polar bear close up...