Golf
We arrived in Vancouver on April 13th, 2009 and I was harvesting aeration cores at 6.00am on April 15th!
Canada eh? I
Eoghan Buckley, from Coolrain, Co. Laois, Ireland, writes about his time spent in Vancouver, Canada working as a 2nd Assistant Superintendent at Seymour Golf and Country Club
n the summer of 2008, after three years as Superintendent of Mountrath Golf Club, my wife, Marie, and I decided that we would try broadening our horizons and
take the plunge to live and work abroad. The only stipulation we decided on regarding location was that the first language of the country had to be English, so we both could find work comfortably without having to learn a new language. We had both worked and lived in the States at some point, however obtaining working visas for there was tough. So we decided to look further north, and ended up applying for a one year work visa for Canada. Vancouver was our destination city of choice, voted the world’s most loveable city nine out of the past ten years, and
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boasting skiing in the morning and the beach in the afternoon; it seemed like the perfect location. In March 2009, upon returning from a six month trip around South America and Africa, I applied to several golf courses in the Vancouver area. Following a phone interview with Jim McGarvey, Superintendent at Seymour Golf and Country Club, I was hired as a Senior Groundsman. We arrived in Vancouver on April 13th, 2009 and I was harvesting aeration cores at 6.00am on April 15th!
Vancouver
Vancouver is located on the west coast of Canada in the province of British Columbia. The downtown population of the city is approximately 500,000, but urban sprawl quickly brings the
population up to around two million, if you take in the surrounding thirty kilometres. It is the biggest city in the province of British Columbia, which is almost four times the size of Great Britain. The city is fringed by water and set against a spectacular backdrop of mountain peaks on the north shore. These North Shore mountains - Seymour, Cypress and Grouse - provide skiing in the winter and mountain biking and hiking in the summer for locals and tourists alike. The world renowned Whistler Ski resort is only a ninety minute drive north.
The city is most well known for having
the largest urban park in North America - Stanley Park - which is 1,000 acres in size and was named after Lord Stanley, the Governor General of Canada at the
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