Keeping in Touch
Telephone
Staying in touch with your family and friends is important.
Visit the following links to telephone providers in Chatham-Kent and to how to use the telephone system. When you set up your telephone ask about their long-distance plans.
You can use prepaid long distance phone cards to make calls. This is where you pre-pay for a number of minutes or dollar amount ($5, $10, $20, $25). Your minutes or money amount is reduced each time the card.
The prepaid long distance phone cards are found in gas stations, Wal-Mart, and the Real Canadian Superstore.
The telephone book will help you find friends, family, government information, emergency services, and postal codes.
• White pages are for listing of residents' address and telephone numbers. Names are alphabetically listed (sometimes you have to look under the community name first).
• Blue pages are contact information for the federal, provincial, and municipal governments.
• Green pages will help you find postal codes
• Yellow pages are for businesses, like restaurants, lawyers, health services, and shopping information. These pages are alphabetically listed by category.
Peel Immigration has a page on how to use a telephone.
Internet and Letters
Internet Communication
The Internet is an instant way to stay in touch with family and friends. Instant messaging programs let you have immediate communication if you and your family. You can also use applications such as:
• Google Talk
• Windows Messenger
• Skype
• ICQ
Do not have a personal computer at your home? Use the computers at the Public Library free of charge or other public locations.
Writing a Letter
You can keep in contact with your family and friends by writing letters. A mail carrier from Canada Post delivers mail, to your mail box once a day from Monday to Friday.
To mail your letters, you can take them to the local post office or drop them into the red mailboxes. To learn more about the mail system, go to the Canada Post Corporation website.