To clarify what Maddog stated earlier, in Alberta, there are two routes to become a weldor. The school route, which is similar to what is described above (in B.C.), and the industry route, in which you simply get a job in a welding environment with qualified journeymen, and register with the provincial government apprenticeship program as an apprentice to one of these journeymen. Then you simply work for three years, with six weeks school attendance and testing in a government-supervised program each year, and the final year, you must pass the journeyman s qualification test. Then, you must take additional training / testing
to attain an B or A pressure qualification.
If you wish to work inter-provincially, this can be done by taking an additional exam to qualify for an inter-provincial ticket.