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Specialties that raise your rate

• Red Seal endorsement

  One extra exam, recognised across Canada.

• Heritage restoration

  Repointing and rebuilding century-old brick and stone. Slow, skilled and well paid. Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto have steady work.

• Stone masonry

  Cutting and setting natural stone. A smaller, higher-end market.

• Refractory work

  Firebrick in furnaces, kilns and steel plants. Industrial rates, often shift work.