Apprenticeship and Red Seal training
Learn the trade.
Earn the seal.
Full apprenticeship technical training and Red Seal exam preparation, delivered online and self-paced — so you can keep earning while you qualify.
Study at Apex
Three ways to qualify
Whether you are starting your first level, challenging the Red Seal, or building the business side of your trade — start from the credential that fits where you are now.
Apprenticeship technical training
The full in-school curriculum for your trade, level by level. Study the same material your technical training period covers, on your own schedule.
Red Seal exam preparation
Blueprint-weighted review and unlimited full-length practice exams, built for apprentices challenging the interprovincial Red Seal examination.
Professional and continuing studies
Estimating, quoting and job-costing for tradespeople moving into supervision, estimating or running their own shop.
Areas of study
Programs offered
Apex specializes in the metal and structural trades — the disciplines where a certified ticket and a Red Seal endorsement change what you are paid to do.
Professional and continuing studies
Become an estimator
The trade pays for what you can build. Estimating pays for what you can price. The Estimator Pathway takes the trade knowledge you already have and turns it into customer-ready takeoffs, quotes and job costs.
- Estimating and takeoff workbooks you keep
- Markup, margin and job-costing fundamentals
- A portfolio piece to show an employer or a client
Also available
Career pathways for every stage
Not sure which program fits? Start from where you want to end up and Apex sequences the levels for you.
Apex by the numbers
Figures reflect the published catalogue and update automatically.
Student support
Built around working apprentices
Most people studying at Apex are already on the tools. The program is shaped around that rather than around a term calendar.
Start where you actually are
Buy the level you need rather than a whole program. Whatever level you buy unlocks the right to challenge that content and move up — you are never held back by a cohort.
Browse levelsCertification on your terms
In Canada, Apex links you to the governing body nearest you to challenge the exam. Studying from elsewhere, the Red Seal is entirely optional — the curriculum is yours either way.
How certification worksAnswers before you commit
Enrolment, refunds, exam attempts and what happens when your access period ends — all set out plainly before you pay for anything.
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What is new at Apex
Exam preparation
Free welding practice test, no account required
Twenty questions weighted to the Red Seal blueprint, marked instantly, with the reasoning shown for every answer.
Take the practice testPrograms
Structural, reinforcing and fabrication programs now open
Alongside Welding, three metal-trades apprenticeship programs are published with full curriculum and Red Seal preparation.
Browse the programsContinuing studies
The Estimator Pathway is accepting enrolments
Workbooks, takeoff practice and job costing for tradespeople moving into estimating or running their own shop.
Read moreLand acknowledgement
We acknowledge Treaty 6 territory
Apex Technical Training honours and acknowledges that the land on which we learn, work and live is Treaty 6 territory — the traditional lands of the nêhiyawak (Cree), Denesųłiné (Dene), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux), Nakota Sioux (Stoney) and Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) peoples, and a homeland of the Métis. We recognize the skill, craft and knowledge Indigenous peoples have carried on this land since long before the trades were formalized, and we are committed to making technical training accessible to Indigenous apprentices across Treaty 6 and beyond.
Learn the trade at Apex
Enrol today and start the same hour. No class dates, no waitlist, no cohort to catch up with.