Is a hospital experience required?

Have you looked at the many other similar threads here to see if your question has already been answered?
http://allnurses.com/forums/f108/pla...ed-273623.html

You should decide which province(s) you're thinking about and then go to the website for hte College of Registered Nurses in that province to see what they require for Internationally Educated Nurses to obtain licensure. A Google search for "college of registered nurses+canada" will bring up most of the website addresses for you.

Another thing you should do is read some of the other posts on the topic of coming to work in Canada... and there are a lot of them. After that you'll have more questions, but they'll be a little more focused.