Ontario international students face 20% fee hike for compulsory health insurance

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CIC News Ontario international students face 20% fee hike for compulsory health insurance Every international student enrolled at a major Ontario university must pay at least $156 more for compulsory health insurance, effective September 1, 2026. A family of three must pay $468 more. Plan your journey to permanent residence with CanadaVisa+ For individuals, the…

Your Quebec ancestor has no birth certificate. Can a baptismal record prove citizenship by descent?

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CIC News Your Quebec ancestor has no birth certificate. Can a baptismal record prove citizenship by descent? Your great-grandmother was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, in 1898. The parish priest recorded her baptism four days later, in a leather-bound register, in French. No one ever issued her a birth certificate. For most of Quebec’s history, no…

Little Canada of Massachusetts: Lowell’s history could mean Canadian citizenship for thousands of its residents today

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CIC News Little Canada of Massachusetts: Lowell’s history could mean Canadian citizenship for thousands of its residents today Between 1860 and 1900, an estimated 31,000 French Canadians moved to Lowell in Massachusetts. They moved from the Canadian province of Quebec to find work in the textile mills in New England and, by 1880, were the…