Moving to Canada?

[Foaming_Cleanser]

Tim Hortons lost it’s Canadian status years ago when it was bought by Wendy’s. Because it’s a U.S. company, franchise info might be easier to obtain there.

[Seven]

@brad_mac2

Anyways, She has finished her deaf studies cert and is just in school to finish up the other stuff (If I’m not mistaken, she has about 2 quarters left) and I am very far behind…I have about 2-3 years left…

She might be able to swing something with her deaf studies cert to cross the border but I doubt you’d get in with that (you guys aren’t married right?)

You should look into a student visa? Finish school up there.

[brad_mac2]

It’s not just the lack of variety that makes me think of Tim’s as not as good…hah…I think the same about Walmart to be honest…it’s a faceless corporation…
Coffee Shops with Soul are full of colorful items from anywhere, each one unique to that shop…even if it is a part of a chain…
These shops feature culture…places to listen to poetry or musicians at open stages…and book discussions…these things are organized within the shop…making sure that all it’s customers can enjoy much more than a decent cup of coffee *most of them serve house coffee (the old school kind) for about $1.00 a cup…and then it can me made with about any creamer for the same price…but most people pass on that idea and go on for the specialty drinks…
Anyways…we have both taken the canadian test…and we’re not gonna be able to move there…unless we win the lottery or save money for the next 10 years…haha…but we’ll always remember that it is a good option and that canadians enjoy coffee…

[brad_mac2]

Another thing…tonight, being lazy, we were playing on the internet, and we came back to straight dope…now, we decided to look into the Canadian immigration test again, and so we got on it and filled it out again…with her information as the principle person…and then we thought we still failed…turns out we were not answering the education answer properly…we were looking at it quickly and not really thinking rationally…then we came up with a 73…we are Canadian-possibles now! This makes me feel better, thinking that I wasn’t good enough for Canada kinda hurt my feelings…I don’t want to be not good enough for any country (sorry about the tricky wording) but the Student Visa option is an awesome idea also…anyways, it’s time to go make some coffee and enjoy a good Butter Pecan and Whipped Cream in an Old School Coffee…hah…
Thanks for the info again everyone…

[HMS_Irruncible]

Are there any places in Canada where people speak only French? I think it would be cool to live in a French-speaking area, but if they don’t speak English, my wife would not be too happy about it.

[Barbarian]

Rural Quebec is probably the only place you’d find a majority of unilingual francophones-- suburbs outside Gaspé, Chibougamou, Trois-Rivieres, places like that. Even in Quebec, Montreal is a fully bilinglual city, there are lots of anglos in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships, and almost everyone in Quebec city has enough Engish to deal with tourists.

New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province, and the rest of the country is mostly unilingual anglos.

[Cat_Whisperer]

There are French-oriented enclaves scattered throughout Canada, if you’d just like a French flavour. Saint Boniface in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan come to mind.

[Foaming_Cleanser]

Speaking from personal experience gained on a Quebec holiday a few years ago, many people in the rural areas have little or no knowledge of English. My high-school French learned 40 years ago kept my car’s wheels turning, but on a couple of occasions difficulties in communication was more than a little problem. Both parties may think each other knows what the other means, but uh-uh.

Just 14,000 in Ottawa?

A new bilingualism policy has also been imposed on the Ottawa Hospital, even though the population of French-only speakers in Ottawa is just 14,000.

Given the politics of the above page, the 14,000 figure may be conservative.

Economic Approaches to Language and Bilingualism

In Canada, in 1971, 60.79 percent of all males in the sample were English unilingual, 4.59 percent were English bilingual, 16.82 percent were French unilingual and 17.80 percent were French bilingual. By 1991, the proportion of English unilinguals and English bilinguals had increased to 63.84 and 4.96 percent, respectively. The proportion of French unilinguals and French bilinguals had declined to 14.98 and 16.23 percent, respectively.

The second-largest group [sorry to have to break this link]

canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/lo-ol/
perspectives/english/sympo/challe_b.htm

are pupils who live outside the metropolitan area, of whom an increasing number use French as their general language of communication before entering school. The English-language kindergarten teacher is then often faced with a group of pupils, some of whom have no knowledge of English.]group are pupils who live outside the metropolitan area, of whom an increasing number use French as their general language of communication before entering school. The English-language kindergarten teacher is then often faced with a group of pupils, some of whom have no knowledge of English.

Employment in the Eastern Townships

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Employers’ language requirements varied from basic French and a very good knowledge of English to very good French and no knowledge of English. The majority of the ads indicated that most employers want workers to have a basic knowledge of French, no English required.

[Amethyst]

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It’s not just the lack of variety that makes me think of Tim’s as not as good…hah…I think the same about Walmart to be honest…it’s a faceless corporation…
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We do have many wonderful coffee shops that aren’t Tim’s and aren’t chains. (Although some of the chains, like Bridgehead are quite good and sell fair trade coffee.) Tim’s may be the national coffee, but I only drink it when I can’t find a good coffee (hmmm can a person born in Canada have her citizenship revoked for such a treasonous statement )

In my neighbourhood, one of the local coffee shops is run by a guy who went back to the old country (Italy) to learn his grandfather’s secrets for roasting coffee beans and making coffee. While this shop doesn’t have all of the caramel and vanilla laced drinks, they roast the beans on the premises, and they make a great coffee (as well as espressos, lattes, etc)