Canada
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Education overview: Montréal, Québec
Do not even consider trying to find schools in Montreal without reading this. With the patience of Job, Melanie Himmer deciphered the incredibly complicated and obtuse Montreal system, and explains it here as clearly as is humanly possible.
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Educational overview: Calgary
Schooling – surely the one topic that most concerns all parents everywhere? For expatriates this concern usually intensifies when there is talk of a new assignment on the horizon. Often it’s made worse by the fact that your company is expecting you to move fast as well. If you have children that are at either end of the educational spectrum, then trepidation sets in as you wonder if the educational system and available schools in your new country will provide the support required in an appropriate timeframe.
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Educational overview: finding a school in Calgary - the practicalities
Public schools and Finding a House Near Them. If you plan to use the public system, and most people do, then the CBE or CCSD (Calgary Board of Education www.cbe.ab.ca (CBE) and the Calgary Catholic School District (CCSD) www.cssd.ab.ca) will assign your child to a designated community school according to where you live.
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Expat living in Calgary
It's hard to imagine a more complete and succinct guide to setting up household in healthy, booming - but "bear-aware"- Calgary, all ferreted out by expert expat Julie Nock.
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Expat living in Montréal
Montréal, North America. Québec, you say? Well, it cannot be all that different, can it? Read on to discover the spectacular individuality and zest of this city, as seen through the eyes of irrepressible, frequent-mover, expert expat Melanie Himmer.
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Schools in Montréal considered by expats
An exhaustive list of schools that expats consider but to which they may or may not send their children - due to lack of space, language restrictions, personal taste, or any of the bizillion variations peculiar to schools in this complex but fascinating part of the world.
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