# Moving to Canada - Employment?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-canada-employment/483150>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 27, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-canada-employment/483150 "2009-01-27T00:00:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-canada-employment/483150/1 "2009-01-27T00:00:34Z")

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My wife and I are considering a move to Canada right now. She’s Canadian, grew up in Newfoundland, so we’re looking at St. John’s. Also Toronto.

I currently work in New York as the word processing manager of a large law firm. I’m pretty tech-savvy, and I’ve also been a trainer at law firms.

Does anyone have any idea what the prospects for employment might be in the above-mentioned cities? Let’s assume I could get a visa or permanent residence by virtue of my marriage to a Canadian.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Bolt\_the\_Nut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bolt\_the\_Nut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bolt_the_Nut)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-canada-employment/483150/2 "2009-01-27T04:46:48Z")

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Hi Saintly - I can’t offer you direct advice, but the following sites may be useful. Both are run by the Canadian Federal Government.

The **immigration** and **job bank** sections might be particularly interesting:

[http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/subjects/employment/index.shtml](http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/subjects/employment/index.shtml)

General economic and employment information that might be of use:

> **[Statistics Canada: Canada's national statistical agency](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/start)**
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> Economic, social and census data with daily analysis of statistical releases from Statistics Canada. Hundreds of free electronic publications to view and download.

If either site requires a password, try **hockey** , \*\*beer \*\*or **bacon** … 😉