January 23, 2018
A key factor in choosing a place to live and work for Canadian-trained family physician Dr. Alina Cribb and her husband was
space. With two horses and a love of the outdoors, finding an affordable home with acreage was at the top of the priority list. "When we visited Kamloops, we found a lot of affordable options with enough acreage to accommodate our horses and give us a beautiful view as well," said Dr. Cribb.
November 29, 2016
Dr. Bbandama Makwati took a very unique route to arrive at the medical clinic in Castlegar, British Columbia (BC): from Zambia, to China, the USA, and South Africa before settling in Castlegar. One might ask, of all the choices available to his family, why did Castlegar top the list?
"My family is the most important thing to me," said Dr. Makwati. "We love nature and we wanted a place that had lots of opportunities for the whole family. We looked at many places but when we thought about Castlegar, my wife and I both had the same feeling: Castlegar feels like home. And for my career, I was looking for a place where I could do both general practice and emergency medicine that had lots of continuing professional development opportunities – Castlegar has it all."
September 12, 2016
Dr. Khati Hendry and her spouse, Sally Kilburg, made the move from California to British Columbia (BC) in 2004. Knowing that they wanted to relocate to Canada and stay on the west coast, the couple visited a number of places throughout BC looking for the best match.
Dr. Hendry added that she made the move to Canada so she could “really be able to practise medicine and enjoy it, versus being caught up in the nightmare of US health care politics.”
The couple considered the type of practice, the amenities of the towns, the general ambience and most importantly, finding a place where they could happily live. They settled on Summerland as the best place to establish Dr. Hendry’s family practice.
June 10, 2016
Dr. Parveen Ali and her husband may hail from a tropical country, but they love fresh snow. It is a good thing they do, because they live in Fort St. John, British Columbia, which gets an average annual snowfall of 183 centimetres.
The couple moved from Bangladesh in 2000, just after Dr. Ali had finished medical school at Sir Salimullah Medical College in the capital city of Dhaka. Her husband, Nakib, landed a job as a banker in Fort St. John. “It was a land of opportunity, so he wanted to come here,” she explained.
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