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Canada · Newcomer services

Help newcomers settle into Canada.
Get paid for it.

Take someone to open their first bank account, meet them at arrivals, or walk them through their SIN appointment. YourTrip brings you the bookings.

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What newcomers to Canada ask for

The first weeks are a list of errands nobody explains. If you have done them once, you can do them for someone else.

  • Airport pickupMeet them at YYZ, YVR or YUL with their name on a sign, help with the bags and see them to their ride.
  • SIM & phone planA Canadian number on day one, and a plan that doesn’t need a credit history.
  • Bank account setupGo with them to a branch and open a newcomer chequing account — no Canadian credit yet.
  • SIN & health card paperworkService Canada for a SIN, then the provincial health card — OHIP, MSP, AHCIP, RAMQ.
  • Apartment viewingsGo to viewings with them, read the lease, and say what the photos don’t show.
  • First-week orientationGroceries, a transit card, winter boots, and a walk around the neighbourhood.
  • Canadian resume & job searchA one-page Canadian-style resume and where people in their field actually apply.
  • English or French practiceEveryday conversation — the phone call, the landlord, the first interview.
  • Translation & interpretingSit in on appointments and make sure nothing is missed in their own language.

How it works

  1. 1Apply from your Canadian city

    Sign in with Google and pick the city you live in. The form lists the settling-in services newcomers book here, so you tick the ones you can do.

  2. 2We check who you are

    A person reads every application, usually within 2 business days. Expect to be asked how you know the city — which branch, which Service Canada office, which bus.

  3. 3Write what you will actually do

    Not “airport pickup” but “meet you at YYZ Terminal 1 arrivals, help with the bags, ride with you to your place”. Prices are in Canadian dollars.

  4. 4Get booked and paid in CAD

    Newcomers pay upfront when they book. You get their name, their number and the meeting point, and you arrange the day with them.

Who we’re looking for

  • You live here and know the small things: which bank opens newcomer accounts without credit, where the Service Canada office is, how the health card works in your province.
  • You can be counted on for a flight that lands at 6am, in February, when it snowed.
  • You remember your own first month in Canada — or you have walked someone else through theirs.
  • A language newcomers speak, or French alongside English, puts you at the top of their list.

Where the line is in Canada

  • Immigration, visa and study-permit advice is for licensed advisers — an RCIC. You can drive someone to their appointment and interpret; you cannot advise on the application.
  • You help someone open an account or fill a form. You never hold their documents, cards or money.

The rules that apply to every partner — same everywhere we operate.

Where newcomers are looking

Newcomers arrive in every Canadian city. These are the ones they search most — apply from wherever you actually live.

  • Toronto
  • Mississauga
  • Brampton
  • Vancouver
  • Surrey
  • Calgary
  • Edmonton
  • Ottawa
  • Montreal
  • Winnipeg
  • Waterloo
  • Halifax

Questions

Do I have to be a citizen or permanent resident?

No. What matters is that you actually live in the city you list and know how things work there — plenty of our best partners arrived a year or two ago themselves. We will tell you what we need from you when we review your application.

Which Canadian cities can I apply from?

Any of them. Demand is heaviest in the Greater Toronto Area and Metro Vancouver, but newcomers land everywhere — apply from the city you know.

Can I help with immigration, visa or study-permit applications?

Only if you are licensed to — an RCIC in Canada, for example. Everyone else sticks to the practical settling-in tasks on this page, which is what most newcomers are actually stuck on.

Do I need a car for airport pickup?

No. Most partners meet the customer at arrivals, help with the bags and travel with them in a taxi or rideshare the customer pays for. If you do drive people for a fee, check what your city and your insurer require first.

Can I offer services in French?

Yes. List every language you speak in your application — it is one of the first things newcomers filter on, and Montreal and Ottawa arrivals look for French and English together.

What if the newcomer has not landed yet?

Most bookings are made before the flight. You agree the meeting point by message, and the booking carries the date, the time and the terminal or address.

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