If you are interested in returning to the Camino to welcome and care for other pilgrims, this is for you. Our weekend training starts on Friday evening with a dinner and then continues on Saturday and Sunday from 8-4. We have a strong pilgrim community in Victoria and are happy to say that we can billet anyone who is coming from out of town.
If you are interested, please fill out the registration form and/or email Shannon (email embedded below) for more information.
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Thank you for your interest in training to be a hospitaler@. Over the past 15 years, we have trained over 350 hospitaler@s. This year over 50 positions on the Camino de Santiago have been staffed by Canadian hospitaler@s. We guarantee that the training will be a weekend of fun, learning, and reinforcement of all those things you learned and felt on the Camino. Some folks will be coming from out of town and will require accommodation. If you have room to billet a single or couple, please indicate below. You can have great fun reliving the camino!
The training you will receive is the same as is offered in Spain, the US, South Africa and Australia. The Spanish Federation requires that before you take the course, you must have walked or cycled one of the Caminos and have stayed in some of the Donativo albergues. Please indicate below which route(s) you have walked and please name 2 or 3 of the Donativo albergue in which you stayed. If you would like to comment on the kind of hospitality you received from these albergues, we would be grateful.
Please complete this form and email it to Shannon Buchan. The registration fee of $150 can be sent by etransfer to Shannon. This fee is used to pay for the all training materials and your meals from Friday evening to Sunday lunch (except Saturday night ). Any money left after the expenses for the weekend will be donated to the albergues on the Camino.
Name:
Address:
Telephone : email:
Will you require billeting for the Friday/Saturday/Sunday nights?
Can you provide billeting for the Friday/Saturday/Sunday nights?
Any food restrictions we should be aware of?
When did you walk/cycle the camino? Month and year(s) please.
Which route and departing from which town in France or Spain__________________________
Please list 2 or 3 Donativo albergues in which you stayed.
Why do you want to be a hospitaler@? (Take as much room as you need)
Are you prepared to volunteer for 15 days in 2026/27? The Federation books volunteers from the 1st to the 15th of the month of the 16th to 30th/31st. They are keen that as a trainee, you are prepared to serve sooner than later. To see where Canadian Hosptialer@s are serving this year, please go to our blog.
When I have received your registration, I will send out a detailed schedule and map.
Thanks,
Mary Virtue (Victoria) & Daphne Hnatiuk (Vancouver)
Shannon Buchan (Victoria) & Terry Ogilvie (Victoria)
shannon_buchan@hotmail.com
