Finding child care

Last week I registered my son for the child-care waiting list in Quebec. We move there in two weeks, so I wanted to get on the waiting list now so that hopefully we can get a child care space by August or September. We now have an address there, so I was able to fill in the online registration form at https://www.laplace0-5.com.  

In Quebec there is government-funded child care, and one centralized waiting list for all child care centres in the province. I found this helpful because it means I didn't have to call or email every child care centre in our new neighbourhood to go on each waiting list. I emailed one, and the person that replied to me let me know about the centralized waiting list, and saved me a lot of "googling".
On the "Laplace 0-5" website, you create yourself a profile and fill in all your details as well as your child-care needs, and you can login and update your information at anytime. Then you select all the child care centres that you would be interested in, and you are automatically put on the waiting list for those centres.

The only issue for me, is that I have not actually visited any of the child care centres yet, to decide if they are a good fit for our family, so I just picked all the centres within a few kilometres of our new place, and we will go and visit them once we have settled in our new location. I really hope we find something that works for our family.

Unfortunately, there is no way to find out where we are on the waiting list as the FAQ sectionn of the website says, "Your position is different on the waiting list of each daycare you have signed up for. Various factors are involved in a child's position on a waiting list".Luckily we are not pressed to find child care right away, so it doesn't really matter too much how long we have to wait...