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Moving to St. John’s Guide

Moving Abroad
7 min readSep 2, 2021

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How to move to St. John’s, Newfoundland 🇨🇦— jobs, companies, housing, childcare and essential websites to help you settle in St. John’s.

Note: This is for St. John’s, Newfoundland (NL or NFLD). If you’re looking for Saint John, New Brunswick (NB), here’s a guide to moving there: saintjohn.ca/en/saint-john-new-brunswick/moving-saint-john

St. John’s, Newfoundland

Contents

  1. 👩‍💻 Jobs
    - Job boards
    - Employment services for job seekers
  2. 📋 Largest companies in St. John’s (200+ employees)
    - Accounting
    - Advertising & Marketing
    - Aviation
    - Education
    - Engineering
    - Facility Services
    - Finance
    - Government
    - Healthcare
    - Hospitality
    - HR, Management Consulting, Recruiting
    - Insurance & Pensions
    - Law Firms
    - Media & Publishing
    - Military
    - Mining
    - Oil & Gas
    - Real Estate
    - Security
    - Ship Building
    - Technology
    - Telecommunications
    - Transportation
    - Utilities
    - Waste Management
  3. 🏡 Housing
    - Rental websites
    - Rental companies / Property Management companies
    - Tenant Rights / Legal Aid
  4. 👧 Childcare
  5. 🏥 Healthcare
  6. 🚗 Driving & Cars
  7. 🚌 Transportation
  8. 🖥️ Internet, TV, Cell Phones
    - Internet, TV
    - Cell Phones
  9. 📚 Schools
    - Public schools
    - Homeschooling
    - Private schools
  10. 👩‍💼 Immigration Lawyers (Law Firms)
  11. 📱 Websites
    - Websites for St. John’s
    - Websites for Newfoundland and Labrador
  12. 📝 Contact: Question? Suggestion?

👩‍💻 Jobs

Job boards

Employment services for job seekers

📋 Largest companies in St. John’s

New Residence hall at Memorial University of Newfoundland

These companies have at least 200 employees and at least one office in St. John’s, Newfoundland

A way to find a job quicker is often to look at the biggest companies first. Due to their size, these major companies often have more job openings, sooner.

Accounting

  • BDO, 10,000+ employees globally
  • Ernst & Young (also called EY), 10,001+ employees globally
  • Grant Thornton, 5,001–1,000 employees globally
  • KPMG, 10,001+ employees globally
  • MNP, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • PWC (also called Price Waterhouse Cooper), 10,001+ employees globally

Advertising & Marketing

  • Pattison Outdoor, 201–500 employees

Aviation

  • Inland Technologies, 501–1,000 employees

Education

  • College of the North Atlantic, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1,001–5,000 employees

Engineering

  • Atlantic Industries Limited, 201–500 employees
  • CBCL Limited, 201–500 employees
  • CIMA+, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Dillon Consulting, 501–1000 employees
  • Golder Associates, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Hatch, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Pennecon, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • SNC-Lavalin, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Stantec, 10,001+ employees globally

Facility Services

  • BGIS, 5,001–10,000 employees

Finance

  • BMO, 10,001+ employees
  • CIBC, 10,001+ employees
  • HSBC, 10,001+ employees globally
  • IG Wealth Management, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • RBC Bank, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Scotiabank, 10,001+ employees
  • TD Bank, 10,001+ employees globally

Government

  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Canada Border Services Agency, 10,001+ employees
  • Canada Post (crown corporation), 10,001+ employees
  • Canada National Research Council (also called National Research Council Canada), 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Canada Revenue Agency, 10,001+ employees
  • City of St. John’s, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Government of Canada (Federal), 10,001+ employees
  • Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), 10,001+ employees

Healthcare

(for public healthcare, see the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)

  • Bayshore Healthcare, 10,001+ employees
  • LifeMark Health Group, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Revera, 10,001+ employees globally

Hospitality

  • Best Western Hotels, 1,001–5,000 employees globally
  • Hilton, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Marriott, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Sandman Hotels,1,001–5,000 employees globally
  • Wyndham Hotels, 10,001+ employees globally

HR, Management Consulting, Recruiting

  • NGA HR, 1,001–5,000 employees

Insurance & Pensions

  • American Income Life, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Intact, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Johnson Insurance, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Manulife, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Marsh, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Primerica, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • RSA, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Sun Life, 10,001+ employees

Law Firms

  • Cox Palmer, 201–500 employees
  • McInnes Cooper, 201–500 employees
  • Stewart McKelvey, 201–500 employees

Media & Publishing

  • Stingray Radio, 1,001–5,000 employees

Military

  • Canadian Coast Guard, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Department of National Defense, 10,001+ employees

Mining

  • Vale, 10,001+ employees globally

Oil & Gas

  • Aker Solutions, 10,001+ employees
  • Baker Hughes, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Cahill (also called The Cahill Group), 501–1,000 employees
  • DNV GL, 10,001+ employees
  • Equinor, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Halliburton, 10,001+ employees globally
  • KCA Deutag, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Oceaneering, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Schlumberger, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Seadrill, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Subsea 7, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Suncor, 10,001+ employees
  • TechnipFMC, 10,001+ employees
  • Transocean, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Worley, 10,001+ employees globally

Real Estate

  • Coldwell Banker, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Killam Apartment REIT, 501–1,000 employees
  • Royal LePage Atlantic, 201–500 employees

Security

  • Commissionaires, 10,001+ employees
  • Garda, 10,001+ employees
  • Securitas Canada, 5,001–10,000 employees
  • Paladin Security Group, 10,001+ employees

Ship Building

  • Genoa Design International Ltd, 201–500 employees
  • Heddle Shipyards, 201–500 employees

Technology

  • Pitney Bowes, 10,001+ employees globally
  • Verafin, 201–500 employees
  • Vision33, 201–500 employees globally
  • XSellerator DMS (owned by Quorum), 201–500 employees

Telecommunications

  • Bell, 10,001+ employees
  • Eastlink, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Inmarsat, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Primus, 501–1,000 employees
  • Rogers, 10,001+ employees
  • TekSavvy, 501–1,000 employees

Transportation

  • Armour Transportation Systems, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Day & Ross, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Marine Atlantic, 1,001–5,000 employees
  • Oceanex, 201–500 employees
  • Seaboard Transport Group, 1,001–5,000 employees

Utilities

(for water utilities, see the City of St. John’s)

  • Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro, 501–1,000 employees
  • Newfoundland Power, 501–1,000 employees

Waste Management

(for waste utilities, see the City of St. John’s)

Source: employee count data from Linkedin.com

🏡 Housing

Rental websites

Rental companies / Property Management companies

Tenant Rights / Legal Aid

👧 Childcare

🏥 Healthcare

🚗 Driving & Cars

  • Transfer your drivers licence, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador: gov.nl.ca/motorregistration
  • Register your car & get new plates, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador: gov.nl.ca/motorregistration
  • Get auto insurance for your car. In Newfoundland and Labrador you have to pick your own car insurance provider. Try TD Insurance, Johnson, Munn Insurance, Co-Operators or others.

🚌 Transportation

🖥️ Internet, TV, Cell Phones

Internet, TV

Cell Phones

📚 Schools

Public schools

  • Newfoundland and Labrador English School (English public schools, K-12): nlesd.ca
  • Conseil Scolaire Francophone (French public schools, K-12): csfp.nl.ca

Homeschooling

Private schools

👩‍💼 Immigration Lawyers (Law Firms)

Check a lawyer’s name in the free online directory of the Law Society of Newfoundland & Labrador to make sure they are licensed and legal. They are the regulatory body for lawyers in NFLB. lsnl.ca

📱Websites

Websites for St. John’s

Websites for Newfoundland and Labrador

📝 Contact: Question? Suggestion?

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