Have you checked out the Canadian Chess Association Correspondence Chess site for starters?
http://correspondencechess.com/ccca/
Usually if you start with your national chess association and get a correspondence rating there it makes it easier to move up to ICCF play (and the experience of course is very valuable)
Just in a desperate search for help of course :).
You see, the ICCF (international correspondence chess...) works very closely with FIDE (FIDE recognizes all ICCF titles, etc.). My hope is that I can join the ICCF and therefore gain a 'real' rating. Because of where I live, it is impractical to travel and therefore correspondence tournaments/games would be far better. Here's my problem...
I can't figure out how to join the ICCF and therefore get a rating. www.iccf.com is a rather terrible site imho. Anyways, if anyone has the answer to this I'd be deeply appreciative.