English Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada

Free LINC is provided for Permanent Residents (Landed Immigrant) or Convention Refugees 17 years and older, by the Government of Canada through Citizenship and Immigration.

Thunder Bay Multicultural Association LINC School offers both full- and part-time classes to suit your needs, and instruction levels (Benchmarks 1 to 7).  (Visit http://www.language.ca for information on Canadian Language benchmarks.)

If you have children between 6 months and five years of age, free child care is available while you attend classes. 

Remember, language classes are available for every adult in your family, not just the person who may be looking for work.

Newcomers who want to attend LINC Classes or LINC Home Study first must have their English language proficiency tested by a trained assessor.

Thunder Bay Multicultural Association is the LINC Assessment Centre for Thunder Bay and district.

The Assessment

The CLB assessor will test the learners language skills in speaking and listening, reading and writing, and recommend placement in a LINC program suitable to the learners abilities, interests and needs.

The assessment takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Before an assessment can be done, the newcomer must provide Proof of Immigrant Status , either in the form of a CIC Confirmation of Permanent Resident document or a Permanent Resident card.

LINC Home Study

If you are a Newcomer in either the District of Thunder Bay or Kenora who is eligible for LINC , but unable to attend regular classes for the following reasons, you may* be able to study English at home through the LINC Home Study Program:

• health issue(s) preventing classroom attendance
• lack of transportation to classroom programs in your region
• employment scheduling conflict(s), such as rotating shift work
• lack of classroom programs in your region
• lack of child-minding services for your LINC classroom programs
• children too young for the child-minding program in your region

*Minimum benchmarks apply.

Arrange an appointment for LINC assessment by contacting TBMA at:

(807) 345-0551

or

1-866-831-1144 toll free (for 807 and 705 area codes)

Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada Program is federally funded by the Government of Canada through the Department of Citizenship and Immigration.