Encounters with Canada is our country's largest and foremost youth forum! Every week of the school year, 120 to 148 teens from across Canada (ages 14 to 17) come to Ottawa. Here they discover their country through each other, learn about Canadian institutions, meet famous and accomplished Canadians, explore exciting career options, develop their civic leadership skills and live an extraordinary bilingual experience. Over 94,000 youth have lived the EWC experience, to date!
We at Local 47 are proud to represent sheet metal workers, roofers, sheeters & deckers, and production fabricators within the Eastern part of Ontario along the St. Lawrence River from a point just east of Brockville Ontario to the Quebec border. From this point we proceed north along the beautiful Ottawa River to Mattawa Ontario, this is where LU 504 (Sudbury, North Bay, and Timmins) takes over jurisdiction to the north. At this point we turn to the southwest through the wilderness of Algonquin Park and then returning south through various rural counties bordering on the Peterborough area (LU 30) and Kingston (LU 269) jurisdictions to our west, until once again arriving at the St. Lawrence River, which in some-places puts us barely a kilometer from our American neighbours (neighbors) on the opposite shore. As you can see we cover a very large geographic area but we're still only a phone call or an email away.