I have started something big!!! We have for sometime wanted to leave the country and after a move to Cumbria in June 2004 we made a pact that the next move would be to emigrate! I had always had sights on Canada and George my long suffering husband quite fancied New Zealand! so started our journey to choose which country would suit us the best and had the best opportunities for our ever growing family.

After much homework, research and many discussions, we decided to take a trip to Canada and visit George's Aunt and Uncle in Spencerville Ontario. We went to Ottawa, Algonquin National Park, Toronto and Niagara in a huge RV, we had a great time we took in some sights, visited countless cousins! and fell in love with Canada!

We have four children all very young and we are wanting to get out to Canada as soon as possible! My eldest daughter will start senior school in September 2010, we made this our goal, after filing our simplified application in February this year 2008, we set about job hunting but also wondering what Alberta was like!!! We visited George's other cousin this year in Drayton Valley and also loved this though both provinces were different we liked them for these differences and decided that we could live in either, so where ever a job became available we would go for it!

We have been to 2 emigrate show and the London Expo this year. The expo was a little more interesting as a few companies were interested in my husband and have been in touch recently. We have fingers crossed that something happens from this as we really went out on a limb to get the London Expo.

The pictures posted here are from our first trip to Ontario. We hired an RV (huge!!!) and travelled around, stayed at Algonquin National Park, it was great! Some wonderful scenery and good camping!