Hi fireduck, made our first trip to Canada last year and hunted the Quill lakes area. We're from the southern part of Ill. and unfortunatly the goose hunting is'nt near as good as it was in the good old days. I'll answer your questions the best I can. As far as somewhere to stay, hotels fill up quickly (we already have our rooms booked) so you need to get on it right away. Go to http://quill-lakes.com and look for hotels/motels. There's plenty of places to freelance and getting permission is pretty easy to do. Just be nice and make sure you get a plot map which shows who owns what. Most of the farmers have copy's of them so they should'nt be hard to find. It's not hard to get around at all. Most roads run north/south east/west and in straight lines. We went up the first week of oct. last year, tons and tons of snows, lots of ducks(not a ton just lots) lots of cranes, lots of smaller darks(the big darks were just getting there when we left) and not many special bellies. We started the week running a ton of decoys and by weeks end we were only setting out 2 doz. bigfeet and 3 doz. outlaws. Just not the kind of pressure we're used to down here(never heard another group of hunters shot's the whole week we were there) Four-wheel drive trucks might be something you need depending on the weather. Also, you might want to go to a site that lists Canadian regulations so you know what you can and can't bring accrossed the border. I do know for a fact that you have to declare your guns, the form you need to download and print is called JUS 909, or you can call them and they will send them to you. Must be filled out in triplicate. The weather when we went up last year was very warm for that time of year. On the third day of our hunt it got up to 84 degrees. We were told that at that time of the year up there it could be sunny and warm one day then cold and snowy the next so make sure you bring all of your hunting clothes. We did have some cold days and they had already had three freezes before we got there. Can't really recomend anywhere else beings we've only made one trip up there but we're gonna have more guys and more trucks this year so i'm sure we'll move around a lot more. And last but not least, you can't hunt on sundays. We got up there on a saturday afternoon and spent all day sunday scouting and asking permission. Would recomend you do the same if your freelancing. Hope this helps 
