Overhead Crane Wiki: Crane Operator Schools in Quebec

Atelier-ecole Les Cedres

• Atelier-ecole Les Cedres is the only school in Quebec offering crane operator training. The school offers an 870-hour course, which includes classes in health and safety, maintenance and repair, operation of cranes and operation of boom trucks. Students taking the course must live in Quebec and have completed French, Math and English. The course is only offered in French. Thirty students at a time are accepted into the course, and typically there are three to five times that many applicants.

  Atelier-ecole Les Cedres1587 Chemin St. Dominique
  Les Cedres, QC J7T 1K8
  888-452-4316
  aelc.cstrois-lacs.qc.ca

Schools in Nova Scotia

• Nova Scotia has three schools offering crane operator training courses. Commercial Safety College offers seven different crane training classes, ranging in length from 40 hours to 120 hours. They have classes for boom trucks, mobile cranes, overhead cranes, ship’s gantry cranes and pedestal cranes.

  Commercial Safety College
  11490 Hwy #2
  Truro, NS B2N 5G6
  800-667-5455
  safetycollege.ca
  The International Union of Operating Engineers offers an eight-week crane operator course covering different types of cranes. They are a registered trade school and guarantee that each student will have a machine to work with.

  International Union of Operating Engineers
  296 Grey Mountain Road
  Falmouth, NS B0P 1L0
  902-798-5070
  operatingengineerstraining721.ns.ca
  Cranesafe (NS) Ltd. offers training and practical tests to certify crane operators. They offer practical testing for boom trucks, mobile cranes, overhead traveling cranes and tower cranes.

  Cranesafe (NS) Ltd
  PO Box 383
  Truro, NS B2N 5C5
  902-548-2285
  cranesafe.ca

Schools in Ontario

• The Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario offers crane operator training at their Oakville campus. They have courses for tower cranes, mobile cranes, crane maintenance and crane safety. The courses range in length from 16 hours to 240 hours.

  Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario
  2245 Speers Road
  Oakville, ON L6L 6X8
  877-793-4863
  oetio.com

  Crane Training Canada has an eight-hour course that can be tailored to the needs of a specific company. Their programs offer training on different types of cranes and are designed to meet provincial requirements.

  Crane Training Canada
  661 Hwy #8
  Stoney Creek, ON L8E 5J7
  905-981-1432
  cranetraining.ca