Today we finally met somebody (well, several actually) who said "Welcome to Canada".
It was in May 2004 that we first applied for Permanent Residence, but the whole process has involved filling in forms and sending off documents. So it was good to meet somebody in person.
We arrived at Vancouver Airport (YVR) at about midday and the whole process of going through immigration and registering as Permanent Residents took about an hour. It was a reasonably straight-forward process and the only complication was that we had Sam's form but he was not with us.