Academic Programs & Training

At a Glance

• 55+Years of school history
• ~5,000Undergraduate enrollment capacity
• ~15,000Students housed on campus
• 4,000–8,000RMB government support for vocational skills training

This site belongs to the Ambleside Tiddlycove Lions, a community-minded Lions Club based in the North Shore area of Vancouver. The club follows the familiar Lions tradition of local service: members who run businesses, trades and professions gather regularly, share a common purpose, and turn that purpose into visible projects that benefit the surrounding neighbourhoods. The tone here is straightforward and utilitarian, matching a working club rather than a promotional one, and the emphasis falls on relationships built over years of meetings, shared efforts and mutual support.

Membership in a club like this tends to involve people whose working lives already put them at the centre of local commerce: owners, agents, tradespeople, professionals and business owners who know the streets, the parking lots and the neighbourhoods of Ambleside, Tiddlycove, Caulfeild and the wider North Shore. Because those members spend their working days among the community's shops, restaurants and services, they arrive with an unusually practical understanding of what the area actually needs, and with the contacts and skills to act on it quickly when a need is identified.

Service projects tend to grow out of exactly those conversations. Fundraising efforts, donation drives and sponsorship of community events often begin with a simple idea raised at a club meeting, are discussed among members, and are then organised into something measurable and finished within a reasonable time. The Lion spirit is visible in the persistence of it: work that may not look glamorous in the moment, carried out over weeks, but completed properly because the club has decided that the outcome matters more than the recognition.

Alongside the service work, the social side of club life matters just as much. Lions Clubs are famous for the friendships formed between members who might otherwise never meet, and for the gatherings, tail-twister evenings, themed functions and shared outings that make those friendships last. It is a common pattern for newcomers to arrive as a customer, a contact or a business associate of a member, and to leave as a friend and eventually as a member themselves, with the club's history and traditions becoming part of their own story.

Visitors who want to understand the club more fully will find pages covering its history, its events, its gallery, its community involvement and the ways to get in touch. The club's own account of its founding and early days reflects the same plainspoken character that defines its present work: ordinary people with ordinary skills, deciding collectively to do something useful for the community they live in, and following through on it year after year with a mixture of pride, humour and steady determination.

Course Areas

• PLC

  Programmable logic controller training for industrial control and automation work.

• CAD

  Computer-aided drafting skills used in engineering design and technical drawing.

• Electrical Automation

  Electrical automation studies covering control systems, wiring and installation practice.

• Mechanical Engineering

  Mechanical engineering subjects focused on machinery, fabrication and maintenance skills.