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Lots of rules both ways. You can get an Alberta Licence if you have a recipocal agreement licence. You will nned a passport and be elegible for a TN permit at the border. If you are caught with out a permit you are on the first plane home and banned for 5 years. Most are on a decent day rate, but there are only a few Cat vendors in Canada, very few. Hotels are expensive in Calgary so is food and gas. Hotel will be over $100 a day and gas is over $4.50 us gallon. Shingles are metric but estimating and measurement are usually in standard. Calgary is well over 1 million people and traffic is heavy. Many roofs are two story or higher and cut up. Lots of cedar and pine shakes. Lots of challenges but with the right vendor you can make $$$s. I am happy to be working elsewhere.

I know a gentleman who has had the misfortune of working in Canada off and on for the past couple of years. You have to have a college degree to adjust anything in that country. There are TONS of guidelines, penalties, restrictions and licensing requirements from what I've heard. I am not sure as to what you will need exactly. I just know it is a pain in the @$$ to work there. Plus, you will most likely need to drive your own vehicle there (so you'll have the proper equipment). Which can be quite a hike.

The first problem is: It's Alberta. Not a big problem.

The second problem is: It's Alberta in the winter. A little more of a problem.

The third problem is: It's a hailstorm in Alberta in the winter. The problem is growing.

The fourth problem is: It's a hailstorm where you will have to climb roofs in the winter in Alberta. Huge problem.

Good luck, my friend. Don't fall off a roof. You will make no money in the hospital, and you cannot climb roofs in a wheelchair.

NO ONE with a brain is handling hail inspections in Calgary in the winter, Cat operations are shut down until April at the earliest. Expect more use of experienced Cat Adjusters in Canada as Canadian companies wake up to what experienced Cat adjusters can do. Also the number of weather related events seems to be on the increase. To work in Canada you will need to have been licenced for 3 years, to have a declared Cat along with several other requirements. This can be seen in the description of a TN work permit under NAFTA. Canadian adjusters have been crossing into the US for many years under this and it is not all that difficult, but you must do your homework. Any Cat adjuster who feels it is to far to drive should get a company job or go back to Wal-Mart. Now the benefits! Canadian money is at parr give or take a cent and will likley rise. PA's are rarer then a re inspector with a sense of humour. (Canadians put the letter U behind O's as in odour or mould). Insureds in Canada almost never hire a lawyer and losing a case can cost the plantiff big dollars in costs. A wash room is a bathroom, our bread is described a white or brown. Ask for a soda will only confuse them at McDonalds (yes the fast food joints are everywhere). Even better there is a Tim Hortons donut store every 4th block. Come and visit y'all eh.