Taxes are high, you'll get about 30% lopped off your cheque, plus our GST and PST when you buy something...But you get medical at about $35 a month, so if you bust your leg you are okay. And if you bust your leg on the job, you get Workers Comp, too

However, you will be in prime muley country, right out your door, plus acess to all other game in BC, after you have been here for 6 months.

Since you are a winemaker, I'll probably become your freind..I'm an Executive Chef...

Fees are simple. A basic hunting liscence is about $35, a deer tag is $25, bear $15, elk $30, moose $30...about that scale...If you are a resident of 6 months, you don't need a guide to do anythign!
BC has a real food & wine subculture, and the OK is the heart of the wine territory...

I am a winemaker and am considering taking a position at a winery in the Okanogan Valley of British Columbia. I wonder if any of you could help me figure out some things. I wonder what I would be able to hunt in B.C. without a guide and what the fees would be? Also what animals are within 3 hours drive of that area? Can any of you give me an idea of what the taxes would be on my salary? Thanks, Rufous.

I am fairly certain that you would qualify as a "resident" under the provisions of "The Wildlife Act" once you had been living here for six months with the correct, legal immigration-employment foofaraw all looked after; this means you will not require a guide to hunt.

The game available then would be, within three hours, Elk, Whitetail Deer, Mule Deer, Grizzly, Black Bear, Moose, Rocky Mtn. Goat and California Bighorn Sheep as well as Huns, Pheasants, Chukars, Blue Grouse, Franklin's Grouse, Ruffed Grouse, Canada Geese and divers Ducks plus about a zillion Coyotes,and quite a few Cougars and Bobcats. But, game is thin on the ground here, that area has quite a few hunters and you don't take chances in the bush here because this country, even in the "sunny" Okanagan is big, cold, empty and no place to fuck around; get some fellow workers to show you around and don't go out alone.

The taxes are high, but, you will qualify for Medicare, Employment Insurance and other social benefits. It is far more peaceful and crime free than most places, BUT, DO NOT try to sneak a handgun into Canada, the penalties are severe and the RCMP have NO sense of humour about this!