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The Community Development Council Durham is the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) office for English language assessment and referral centre for newcomers, 18 years and over living in the Durham Region.

The LINC program is funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). In addition to your assessment, we provide you with LINC and other language class options and access to other settlement information. We offer assessments across Durham Region (Pickering, Ajax, Whitby and Oshawa). Our classes are also located across the Region.

We look forward to welcoming you to your new home.

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For Permanent Residents and Convention Refugees, click here.
For Canadian Citizens and visitors, click here.