ORIGINAL: Druss

Most hobbies shops will push their own product, not give you the best advise. Most local hobby shops will probably carry Align, Eflite and Heli-Max. All decent heli brands with Align probably dominating the 450 to 600 heli sizes.

Most hobby shops will push you towards a co-axial to begin with which isn't a bad way to start.

I think boyswithtoys is a good toronto RC shop. There is also www.greathobbies.com which is probably Canada's largest online shop.

As for shopping from out of country, the US is ok if you take the $$ into account, yes UPS does charge a large brokerage fee (usually it's a minimum of $25), USPS/Canada Post charges $5-$8 plus GST.

With a budget of $200 you're not going to get much (certainly not the Hirobo Quark which costs twice that), unfortunately RC helis are expensive to get into. Think about a co-axial for now.

Advance had no prices but just as a hint, don't buy walkera...