Hi folks my name's ady , I'm a carpenter and biker , visited b.c. 8 years ago and loved the place , looked at emigrating when we got back but life suddenly happened like it does and time goes bye so fast , was after opinions on the likelihood of finding work , was thinking of Vancouver but really liked a little town called Golden aswell ,I'm a yorkeshireman in my late 40's and want to find somewhere where my skills might be appreciated , on a different tack does anyone know what the bike scene and roads are like as this is a big part of my life , please be straight as I would like to know all , good and bad , thank you and I hope to join in the banter , ady.

Hello and welcome to the forum

Your best bet is to re-post in the Canada section of the forum. They are a helpful bunch in there and I'm sure will point you in the right direction. You can follow this link below.
Canada - British Expats

Thanks for the welcome , I'm not good with computers , can't see how to repost in Canada section , do I just rewrite it on there? Thanks

ts ok, i will move the thread to Canada for you

Thank you very much , as you probably guessed I hit stuff with a hammer for a living and don't sit behind a vdu all day , this forum seems very helpful thanks again.

I have some very good mates who make a living hitting things with a hammer all day. Sometime wish I could hit my computer with one! We're all different, thats what makes the forum so good
Hopefully you'll get some good replies from the Canadian people

Hi, and welcome to BE. Don't worry about getting to grips with the forum, you'll get there! And in the meantime we're happy to help out if you can't figure something out.

Do you need a job offer to get a visa (as most do)? If so then I wouldn't limit yourself to somewhere as small as Golden, perhaps just BC would be ok, but in reality you might need to be prepared to go anywhere that you can find an employer prepared to pay $1000, and go through all the paperwork, hassle and wait to hire you, and that could be somewhere in a completely different province. So don't get too hung up on areas just yet.

Do also look in to what you'll need to do to be able to work in Canada, I think that carpenter might be a regulated trade, but not sure on that - a quick forum search should reveal the answer though, or one of our forum members might be able to help with that.

Best of luck with it all.

Thanks buddy for the advice ,carpentry is a regulated trade but I hold lots of experience in all aspects so hoping this will help , unfortunately I spoke to an advisor here in the UK and he thinks my age ( 49 ) will go against me , I had an idea I might struggle on that but will keep trying.

I'd be surprised if your age went against you getting a job, although it will unfortunately impact your points score and mean that you will (I assume) need a job offer to get a visa.

If that is the case, best thing to do is have a good read of the Job Hunting section of the Wiki (on blue bar at top of page), and plan a trip out to job hunt in Canada and hopefully you'll find an employer prepared to sponsor you.

No idea on bikes and roads I'm afraid, but I'm sure others will be along to help with that!

Best of luck.

Bloody hell. VDU. I haven't heard that in decades.

Yeah I know I'm an old git.

You could be my kid brother

We've got one of them down the Legion. He's really rubbish at karaoke.

Good luck with the immigration process.

You wouldn't be Lancastrian by any chance ? Dissing the beautiful yorkie accent.

No, he's genuinely from Yorkshire. We think he's very funny although its hard to understand what's he's on about after he's had about five pints.