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Bricklaying Trade: Job Placements and Four-Foot Level

bricklaying trade: Aboo is one of six newcomers to complete their first job placements as part of a Fredericton-area training program sponsored by the province, according to CBC. It it designed to teach them the bricklaying trade so they can find employment in the construction industry. Now he's building walls. The program is the result of a partnership between the Department of Post-Secondary Training and Labour, the New Brunswick Community College and the Multicultural Association of Fredericton. It's the first time I use a four-foot level, he said. Newcomers hope to find new life as bricklayers Immigrants with unrecognized credentials offered help scaling barriers Aboo did masonry work in Syria but with stones and blocks, not bricks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.