I personally would go the Questrade route over eSeries, though I can see the latter is... simpler, in many ways.
But yeah. Open an account, put money in, buy stuff.
IMHO very few people need real advice from a really good advisor. Most people just need to follow the diversified, broad index based approach. IE, 20-35% home country, 20-35% international developed, 20-35% developing, and the rest in bonds.
Put the US$ stuff in the RRSP, bonds in TFSA, and everything else (especially Canadian) in unregistered - for a Canadian, obviously.
Job done.