Links
The trade,
across Canada.
Every SMART sheet metal and roofers local in the country, and the training centres behind the apprenticeship. Members transfer, work travels, and the trade is the same one everywhere. If you are outside Northwestern Ontario, the local below covers your area.
SMART locals in Canada
Twenty-one locals across seven provinces, listed west to east.
Alberta
- Local 8Edmonton and Calgary
Saskatchewan
- Local 296Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert
Manitoba
- Local 511Winnipeg
Ontario
- Local 30Toronto and the GTA
- Local 47Ottawa and Eastern Ontario
- Local 235Windsor, Essex and Chatham-Kent
- Local 269Kingston
- Local 285Toronto, residential, gas and fabrication
- Local 473London and Southwestern Ontario
- Local 504Sudbury and Northeastern Ontario
- Local 537Hamilton, Niagara and Brant
- Local 540Mississauga, production
- Local 562Kitchener, Waterloo and Wellington
New Brunswick
- Local 437Saint John, New Brunswick and PEI
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Local 512St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Locals without a link do not publish a public website. Call this hall and we will point you at the right one.
Training centres
Apprenticeship is delivered provincially, so the school depends on where you are registered. Check which one serves you before making plans.
- Ontario Sheet Metal Workers Training Centre (OSMWTC)
Oakville, Ontario
The in-school apprenticeship for Ontario's construction locals, run jointly by the union and the contractors' association.
- Local 47 training centre
Ottawa, Ontario
Eastern Ontario runs its own school alongside the provincial centre.
- Local 296 training centre
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan apprenticeship and upgrade training.
- Local 280 training centre
Surrey, British Columbia
British Columbia apprenticeship and upgrade training.
- Building Trades Advancement College (BTAC)
Seven campuses across Nova Scotia
Operated by the building trades unions of Nova Scotia; the province's largest private-sector trainer.
- Nova Scotia Community College
Nova Scotia
Delivers the in-school portion of the Nova Scotia sheet metal apprenticeship.
- College of the North Atlantic
Newfoundland and Labrador
Runs the sheet metal worker program and the province's block-release training.
- SMART International Training Institute
United States, open to members across SMART
Advanced and specialty training beyond the provincial apprenticeship.
The union above the local
The councils, associations and agencies Local 397 works with in Northwestern Ontario are set out on affiliations, and the hall itself is on contact.