ORIGINAL: gaRCfield
About joining a club - I don't recall seeing the link for the AMA anywhere, so I'll put it here.
Since he is in Canada, AMA will be fairly useless.
terrabit2001
If your hobby shop cannot point you to someone who can help, take a look at this site
http://www.maac.ca
They are the Canadian group that promotes RC flying and they have a club listing.