Join Us: Events for Newcomers to Canada

UpdatesKate Johnson2023-11-05T10:33:58-05:00

Welcome to the online community and resource hub for Newcomers to Canada 🇨🇦

We’re in this together

Welcome to the online community and resource hub for Newcomers to Canada 🇨🇦

We’re in this together

Hi there 👋 I’m Kate

After living and working in 5 different countries, I finally swapped my busy English city life for rural Canadian lakefront living. 7 years later, I now help newcomers to Canada ditch the overwhelm of rebuilding their life abroad and connect them with other internationals who are on the same journey.

I’ve got some very exciting offerings coming this winter season…

As Canada braces for its yearly hibernation, newcomers can be left feeling extra isolated. If you’re looking for connection and adventure this winter, stay tuned!

Be the first to know by signing up below 👇

Whilst you wait, dive into the resources below

The New to Canada Academy

Moving to a new country can get overwhelming FAST…

🇨🇦 Tired of all the Google searches, blog posts, Facebook groups, and webinars?

🇨🇦 Looking for a supportive community of others going on the same journey as you?

The New to Canada Academy is an online video course and community that gives you the exact information and expert support you need

All in ONE convenient place.

The New to Canada Academy

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Pre-Arrival Prep

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The “Life Admin”

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Canadian Culture

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Career + Social Life

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Emotional Tools

The Newcomer Collective Journal

Trust me: Time flies when you move abroad. You’re going to want to start logging all the crazy memories, lessons, and adventures you’re making!

Grab a copy of this 5-year memory book so you never forget your immigration journey – and create a cherished keepsake to always look back on.

Newcomer Journal

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But why does £8 feel cheaper than $10? . . #movea

But why does £8 feel cheaper than $10?
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#moveabroad #studyabroad #workabroad #newtocanada #britincanada #britabroad

Baby-free day in London 🇬🇧 The perk of livi

Baby-free day in London 🇬🇧

The perk of living far from loved ones is that when you *do* visit home, you're never short of childcare 🙌

I love being a mum - But I also absolutely LOVED whizzing around the city yesterday like old times!!

I climbed flights of stairs *alone* without searching for a ramp or someone to help me carry a stroller. I flew around the underground, up and down escalators. I weaved in and out of the busy Oxford St crowds. I sat at a tiny pub table and ate my food slowly. I walked with my husband, both hands around him. I did exactly what I wanted to do, not working around schedules or snacks or naps.

Oh how you take it all for granted before babies 😆

Before I had Sienna, my visits back to the UK would always be a whirlwind exactly like this. Flying around to visit everyone, do all the shopping, see all the sights. I'd get back home to Canada and think, phew, I need a holiday now(!)

Nowadays, visits home have slowed right down. People visit me instead. We focus on *quality* time. Coffee mornings. Park walks. Movie nights in. I crave completely different experiences from my home country than I did when I first moved away.

Has that happened to you too?

I'm not sure which I prefer - I guess it's just interesting to reflect on how my life after moving abroad keeps changing and evolving over time.

👉 Moving to a new country is never this one big thing you do and then you learn to adapt to it.

Your life is always going to have new stages, new chapters, new challenges as you grow...

So if you're worrying about not getting your move and your new life "perfect", that you're not loving it straight away, or fitting in, or feeling settled... just remember life is constantly changing and your goals and criteria for happiness will shift over time anyway.

So try to enjoy the present! Take the highs and lows in your stride.

Living in a new country is one of the coolest, bravest things you can do.

You might look around one day and realise just how different it all turned out compared to how you thought it would, but that it's all pretty wonderful regardless ✨️

My cringey thing I do on every flight with the bab

My cringey thing I do on every flight with the baby, love it or hate it? 😆
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#travelwithbaby #babytravel #familytravel #familytraveltips

Florida dump 🌴🍹 What a week!! Our first tri

Florida dump 🌴🍹

What a week!! Our first trip with friends as a new family. To think I met Isaac carrying only a backpack with 3 outfits with me, to now bringing the whole of BabiesRUs onto the airport shuttle bus... how times have changed 😆

But it was SO incredible to hang with other parents in the sunshine, see our kiddos playing together, share bathtimes (and giant margarita slushies)

Travelling looks a little different now and I'm excited for it!

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1. Feeling myself post-party in my new Target Bikini 👙
2. Our palace for the week, it's giving Fresh Prince
3. My new favourite family shot 😍
4. Risking it all in croc waters for my SUP obsession 💦
5. The best moms in the whole fricken world
6. Fashion babies 👶
7. Do it for the 'gram
8. Whipping out the milkers on the air boat tour 'cause #mumlife
9. Watching for crocs 🐊
10. Happiest in the ocean

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Can't wait to explore more of the States!
Where would you recommend? 👀👇

#explorethestates #americatravel #floridalife #familytravel #travelwithbaby #babytravel

Too many times we'd drive to the States, hand over

Too many times we'd drive to the States, hand over a stack of blue Canadian passports and my one red UK one... then be told to come up to the office for my stamp/ extra screening 😆 After the collective groan from the Canadians, I'd always promise them that I'd have my Canadian passport soon !!!

Well now I was able to use it for the very first time for our last-minute trip down to Florida 💁‍♀️🇺🇸 and oh it felt good!!

I'm feeling so grateful and privileged to be able to have both passports from the two countries I call home ❤️

✈️ p.s. forcing the guys to film this in Miami International Airport in front of random strangers staring at us was a new highlight of my life... the shit I get my friends to do!! Show them some love 🤣

England vs. Canada Pros and cons! (Disclaimer: th

England vs. Canada
Pros and cons!

(Disclaimer: this is based on my very personal experience in small-town Ontario, don't come for me 😆)

This is the most common question I get asked: After 7 years, which country do I prefer? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦

Would you agree? What are some things you miss vs. prefer when you think about your home country?

#newtocanada #newcanadian #immigration #movetocanada #britincanada

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