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Planning a move to Canada? Here's everything you need to know

Ciara Kenny

Preparation is everything and getting ready to work in the second largest country in the world is more complicated than you might think

‘Ireland is where I grew up and Canada is where I matured’

‘Ireland is where I grew up and Canada is where I matured’

Margaret O’Shea Bonner

‘Ireland and Me’: Margaret O’Shea Bonner, Ontario, Canada

‘I don’t consider myself an emigrant. I had a choice’

‘I don’t consider myself an emigrant. I had a choice’

Eimear Kelly

‘Ireland and Me’: Eimear Kelly, Vancouver, Canada

Emigrating to Canada? You should consider Montreal

Emigrating to Canada? You should consider Montreal

Patrick McKenna

Most young Irish head to Vancouver or Toronto, but Montreal has a lot to offer

For our kids and our sanity, we had to move to Canada

For our kids and our sanity, we had to move to Canada

Barry Croke-O'Sullivan

We’ve made a commitment to ourselves, and to Canada, that we are going to plant our flag here in Calgary and do our best to make it work

To me, Vancouver Island is a small piece of paradise

To me, Vancouver Island is a small piece of paradise

Danny Hamilton

Why I love living in... Canada

My heart is torn between Ireland and Canada

My heart is torn between Ireland and Canada

Sarah Flynn

I’ve made a new life with my husband and daughter abroad, but I still yearn for home

Teaching Irish in Newfoundland, the most Irish place outside Ireland

Teaching Irish in Newfoundland, the most Irish place outside Ireland

Sinéad Ní Mheallaigh

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Speaking Irish in… Canada

Living in Canada with French-Italian parents, our kids are still ‘Irish’

Living in Canada with French-Italian parents, our kids are still ‘Irish’

Francesco Cavatorta

We were sadder leaving Ireland than we were our birth countries

In Alberta, we live alongside bears and wild horses

In Alberta, we live alongside bears and wild horses

Aoife O’Connor

Why I love living in... Picture Butte, Alberta, Canada

How to dress for winter in Canada

How to dress for winter in Canada

Patrick McKenna

Montreal resident Patrick McKenna shares his advice on preparing for your first cold winter

Canada didn't work out for me, but I'm glad I tried

Canada didn't work out for me, but I'm glad I tried

Katie Crosby

Homesickness was overwhelming and my nursing degree was ‘non comparable’, but Vancouver has been fun

Irishman documents a year in Canada in 365 seconds

Irishman documents a year in Canada in 365 seconds

David Wogan

David Wogan filmed one second of video a day capturing his life in Toronto

I gave up a suffocating civil service job for a new life in Canada

I gave up a suffocating civil service job for a new life in Canada

Brian Brennan

I’ve wondered for 49 years why I gave it all away for a place where I knew no one. But that place opened doors

'I broke my mother’s heart when I emigrated to Canada'

'I broke my mother’s heart when I emigrated to Canada'

Mary Curran

‘Ireland and Me’: Mary Curran, Toronto

Lessons I quickly learned arriving in rural Canada in 1974

Lessons I quickly learned arriving in rural Canada in 1974

Patrick McKenna

As the small town’s only immigrant, I was an outsider who had ‘stolen’ a rare good job

Moving to Canada via the rest of the world

Moving to Canada via the rest of the world

Gillian Ackland

After three years of work we needed a change of pace and place, so here we are 226 days into our world tour

Canada has introduced a new Express Entry system for candidates applying for permanent residency visas. Photograph: Getty Images

Express Entry explained The system for applying for permanent residency has changed. Here’s how it might affect you

The first round of IEC working holiday visas for Canada were snapped up in a record seven minutes last year, and the second round in half an hour. Image: Getty

International Experience Canada How to apply for a working holiday visa under new rules for 2016

Canada Q&A: Vancouver

'There's nowhere quite like Vancouver'

'There's nowhere quite like Vancouver'

Canada Q&A: Rachel Healy moved to Vancouver on a one-year visa in 2009. Five years later she's still there and loving her lifestyle

Canada Q&A: Bowen Island

'We feel privileged to live in such a beautiful country'

'We feel privileged to live in such a beautiful country'

Canada Q&A: Vera Keogh left in 2011 with her husband and two children for Bowen Island, close to Vancouver

Canada: What's in store?

Canada: What's in store?

Study finds gap between expectations and reality on the ground for Irish people moving to Canada

Patrick McKenna 40 years in Canada: Columns on homesickness and making a new home

Emigrating at 60 A fresh start in Vancouver after our construction business closed in Galway

Ruairi Spillane: “Success for me is to be able to go home to Kerry for a month and not have to worry.”

Moving idea Kerryman Ruairi Spillane runs recruitment and info service Moving2Canada

Maeve McCarthy grew up helping out in her grandmother’s B&B in Bantry, Co Cork

Taste of Home Café owner has become an ambassador for traditional Irish fare in Canada

My journey to Canada

Leaving my family behind for a carpentry job in Alberta

Leaving my family behind for a carpentry job in Alberta

Before leaving Ireland, Adrian Gallagher shares his reasons for moving to Canada

Quitting my great job for an adventure in Toronto

Quitting my great job for an adventure in Toronto

Follow Brian Sheehy’s progress as he jets off to Canada on a two-year IEC visa

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