
Travel Guide
A Scary Moment, Made Easy
Before you arrive
- Add important numbers to your phone (parents/guardians, Homestay family member(s), school contacts)
- Get to know your Homestay family
- Share your flight information and arrival times with your Homestay family
- Make sure your students finances (debit/credit/visa, cash) can work in Canada
- Get a Canadian phone plan, international students have the option to choose a great cell phone plan from Phonebox. You can find Monthly plans or Prepaid plans. Phonebox also support E-sim so students can setup the phone prior to arriving.

Packing your bags
Be sure to check with your airplane on weight limits for your carry-on and checked baggage
Bring the following in your carry-on,
- Passport
- Cell phone, charger
- Laptop (recommended, not required)
- Money
- A change of clothes, if luggage is delayed
- Hand sanitizer
- Visa, or eTA or ‘Immigration Canada Letter of Introduction for a Study Permit’ or Study Permit (if you are a returning student)
- Custondianship Documents
- International Student Official Letter of Acceptance
- Picture of Homestay guardians and contact information
- Snacks & water bottle
- Prescription medication (if required)
Prepare for immigration
- Your passport, eTA or Visitor Visa, or Immigration Canada ‘Letter of Acceptance for a Study Permit’ or Study Permit (if you are a returning student)
- If you have an Immigration Canada ‘Letter of Introduction for a Study Permit’, this is where you will receive your Study Permit
- The barcode on this letter MUST be scanned while you are at the Immigration area
- Please make sure the Immigration Officer prints and gives you your study permit BEFORE leaving the immigration area
- Your Lakehead Public Schools International Program Official Letter of Acceptance
To enter Canada
- Passport
- ‘Immigration Canada Letter of Introduction for a Study Permit,’ or eTA, or Visitors Visa
- Lakehead Public Schools International Program Official Letter of Acceptance
- Custodian Declaration



A few gems once you reach Thunder Bay
See
- Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park
- Fort William Historical Park
- Terry Fox Monument
- Thunder Bay Museum
- Thunder Bay Art Gallery
- The Sleeping Giant from Hillcrest, Prince Arthur’s Landing, or Mount McKay
Do
- Sleeping Giant Provincial Park
- Silver Islet
- Ouimet Canyon
- Eagle Canyon
- A Sauna (Thunder Bay has a large Finnish population so they are common and popular)
- Try a local Persian dessert (Only found in Thunder Bay)
Shop
- Intercity Shopping Centre
- Goods & Co.
Drink & Eat
- The Habit Coffee and Bakeshop
- The Persian Man
- The Nook
- Goods & Co
- The Marina Market & Coffeehouse
