Madmac

You truly are the Devil Incarnate.

Steve_P

At least you get to have a Dutchie.

Steve_P

Coming from you I'll take that as a compliment.

dbd33

Where's the Red Brick Cafe? I have to work in Guelph over the winter and the Bagel Schmagel, where I used to go for coffee, has closed.

Madmac

Obviously, as it's my perogative to bestow demonic status. I am Evil after all.

Madmac

Douglas Street. Look for the Scotia bank on the corner, at the main downtown square. It's to the right and behind that, on the corner of the Red Brick building.

Steve_P

Getting back to the original question.

Although I had been here for a eight month period six years prior to coming out in 1963 that eight month period was when I was nine years old and I don't remember much about it.

So in reality I knew nothing of Canada before I arrived.

Souvenir

I made a number of trips here in the 4 years prior to migrating and visited Vancouver (twice), Calgary, Hamilton, Oakville, TO (several times), Ottawa (twice), Montreal (several times), Trois Rivieres (once is enough), Quebec City and Halifax. If nothing else, I had a reasonable idea of what much of the country looks like. I was also surrounded by Canadians at work, so I had a fair idea of what they looked like.

Piff Poff

Coffee comments aside

We had a 5 night Honeymoon trip to Toronto/Niagra in 2003 and after we put our PR application in a 14 night RV around the rockies recce in 2004.

At the time we only had tv internet which was barely usable due to the cost, so I just read travel guides to Canada.

Now I'll have a vente non fat non sugar extra hot vanilla latte or if I'm being really bad I'll have a vanilla moolatte - surley that counts as a coffee?

dbd33

Thanks.

Tangram

Two trips over, one for a job interview so I guess that was after my PR application went in, and one 3 week holiday which again was after my PR application went in. Also had a brief trip for the job I eventually obtained.

So I guess the answer is none.

iaink

Im not so sure. I see lots of words there, but none of them look like "coffee"

Do you drink that, or apply it sparingly in the hope that it prevent wrinkles?

Novocastrian

I (we) first came here for the very first time in 1982 for what was supposed to be a six month wait while our US Green Cards came through.

They never did.

Piff Poff

It's the only way I can handle the bitter stuff here.....I find either really weak or really bitter so making it into a milkshake type thing is the best way to go!

My wrinkles are past sparing

ann m

We had two 3-week holidays crossing British Columbia and Alberta in 1995 and 1997.

8 years later we put in the PR application.

Then I thought I'd better check out the winter months, so we had a 2-week holiday/ski-ing/recce trip and winter was OK afterall.

Then we came back and did another 2-week holiday/ski-ing/job interviews trip last December (winter was still OK).

Then we moved over here in May. Waiting to see what winter is really like.

So far, I feel like we've picked the right place - but I am looking forward to exploring other provinces in due course - if only to blag a beer out of you lot.