Well College is actually different in canada than it is in the united states.
Where USA's 'college' is essentially Canada's version of 'University'.
Our college is actually more of a hands-on while still learning some theory, and applying it in a work environment. Sometimes projects will be real-world problems (i.e. Software Engineers might be learning how to program in C, but they will also be programming for a cellphone or whatnot. Creating robots to solve problems, etc.) where as university would be pretty thoroughly algorithms and efficiency etc.
The best advice is to contact them, via phone or in person.
An example of a contact for a specific college would be:
http://www.conestogac.on.ca/ce/contact.jsp
Which is conestoga College.
For any college that you find,
Just ask if you can talk to someone who can give general information like general costs, what kind of programs are available. And from there you can probably get more detail about the course. If you go in person, they can even give you a pamphlet showing all of the courses in the college, and you can go further by getting a little pamphlet with a bit more detail about a specific course.
Ideas of what to ask:
"I find Rec therapy interesting, and i'm interested in helping little kids"
"What would the ideal courses be?"
"Could i get more information about x course"
"how much will tuition cost for x course, and what is the ballpark cost for students in this course?"
I would say a general ballpark cost is $10,000 and that is without living in residence (which will add on another like...8,000 or something ridiculous.)You don't HAVE to live in residence but some people find it accomodating to live really close to the college they go to. Some of us unfortunates can't afford that luxury.
