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Canadian Resources & other LINKS

 Contents

• Friends of ProductsOfCanada®
• News and Information
  • Canadian-based Publications Online
• Facts and Figures
  • Canadian Dollar exchange rates
  • Telephone number lookup
  • Business telephone lookup (Yellow Pages)
  • Postal Code lookup
• Travel and Tourism
  • Tour Canada without leaving your desk
• Government Services and Information
  • Government of Canada page
    • Debates of the House of Commons of Canada (Hansard)
  • The Legislative Assemblies of Canada
  • Canadian government budgets
• Politics and History
• Science and Education
• Technology, Commerce, and Industry
• Heritage, Culture and Entertainment
  • Canadian Film Festivals

• Other general resources
  • Canadian information systems

Friends of Products of Canada

• CBC News Online
• Radio Canada Nouvelles [French]
• Weather: (courtesy Environment Canada)
  • Regions: Atlantic, QC, ON, Prairie/Northern, Pacific/Yukon
  • See also
• The Weather Network®
• Ski-Net Canada (current ski conditions)
• Last Night's National (CBC) transcript
• ClariNet newsgroups: clari.world.americas.canada.general, .biz, .briefs (subscribers only)
• Lottery results

Media

• Canadian-based Publications Online (Newspapers, periodicals, journals, E-zines)
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
• Radio Canada International via shortwave, satellite, and the Internet

• The National Atlas Information Service presents:
  • Defacto: Geographical Facts About Canada
  • Canadian Geographical Names
• Canadian Time Zones, and their inventor
• Interactive map of Canada (courtesy Xerox)
• 1991 Census population figures (from Statistics Canada)
• What the CIA Factbook (1997) says about Canada
• Language populations in Canada, from the Ethnologue database

• O Canada!, Canada's official national anthem
• God Save the Queen, the Royal Anthem
• Lyrics to Gens du pays, the unofficial Quebec national anthem [French]
• Lyrics to Ode to Labrador, the unofficial Labrador national anthem
• Lyrics to The Maple Leaf Forever, an older and depreciated anthem
• Lyrics to In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae
• Canadian and Provincial Flags and Arms

• Canadian Economic Indicators [unofficial]
• Consumer Price Index
• Today's currency exchange rates [courtesy Bank of Canada]
• Telephone number lookup
• Business telephone lookup (Yellow Pages)

Also:

Canadian Statistics, from Statistics Canada

• Tour Canada without leaving your desk
• Canadian Passport Office
• What the U.S. State Department has to say about travelling in Canada
• Canadian Passenger Rail Services, including VIA Rail Canada (courtesy the Cyberspace World Railroad)
• Official Via Rail Canada site
• Airlines: Air Canada, Canadian Airlines International,
• Bus: Greyhound Canada, Voyageur Colonial
• City.Net

• Government of Canada
  • Public servant directory
• infoCan
• InterGov: Intergovernmental On-Line Information Kiosk

• The Parliament of Canada
  • Debates of the House of Commons of Canada (Hansard)
  • Debates of the Senate of Canada (Hansard)
  • Index and Reference Service
• CPAC ONLINE: Internet companion to the Canadian Parliamentary Channel
• The Legislative Assemblies of Canada

• Reports of the Auditor General to the House of Commons
• Report of the Commissioner of Official Languages to the House of Commons: 1996
• Environment Canada:
  • The Regions
• Strategis: Industry Canada Online
• The Daily, by Statistics Canada

• Law:
  • Supreme Court of Canada decisions (courtesy the Supreme Court of Canada and the Centre de recherche en droit public of the Université de Montréal)
  • Department of Justice of Canada
  • ACJNet: Access to Justice Network
  • Selections from the Criminal Code of Canada (courtesy EFC)
  • Quebec Civil Code (courtesy the Centre de recherche en droit public of the Université de Montréal) [French]
  • Court Challenges Program of Canada
  • ARVIC's Guide to Intellectual Property

  Also:

  Virtual Canadian Law Library

  Canada Law, from Osgoode Hall Law School [index]

  CANLAW.NET: Canadian Legal Network [index]

  Canadian Legal Information Centre

  Canadian Law - The Surfing Lawyer

  Canadian Legal Resources on the WWW, by Peter Sim

  The can.legal newsgroup

• Public Safety:
  • Canada ChildFind online
  • Child CyberSEARCH CANADA
  • Kids Help Phone

• Immigration:
  • Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CICNet)
  • Canadian Council of Refugees
  • The misc.immigration.canada newsgroup

• Taxation and Finance:
  • Revenue Canada
  • Canadian government budgets
  • Canadian Form Centre (scanned versions of a few Revenue Canada forms)

• Post:
  • Canada Post Corporation: Press Releases, For the Collector
  • Postal Code lookup
  • Stamp issues for 1991-97

• Foreign Affairs:
  • Canadian missions abroad:
    • websites
  • Foreign Embassies in Canada [index]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Also:

Federal Institutions

Federal Government of Canada (courtesy NCF)

• Political material
• CPAC ONLINE
• Canadian Confederation, from the National Library of Canada
• Early Canadiana online New!
• Canada at War: The Valour and the Horror
• Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions
• Early Canadiana Online
• The Books of Remembrance: remembering Canada's war dead
• Religious History of Newfoundland and Labrador
• The Beaton Institute: Cape Breton History and Heritage
• The British Columbia History Page
• Ghosts of the Klondike Gold Rush
• Arctic Dawn -- The Journeys of Samuel Hearne
• History Alive Media Library
• Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet [index]
• Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives

Also:
Learning, Teaching and Researching Canadian History (courtesy Department of History, University of Victoria)
SchoolNet
Canadian History Links (courtesy (History Television)
Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
Canadian Geneology and History Links

• National Research Council of Canada, featuring:
  • Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Canadian Federal Laboratories

• Québec Science magazine [French]
• Great Canadian Scientists project

• Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC)
• International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS)
• Canadian PostDoc Fellowships
• The Commonwealth of Learning, an organisation established by the Commonwealth of Nations

• Government of Canada Libraries
• Canadian Libraries:
  • via HyTelnet
  • via National Library of Canada (under development)
• Museums

• Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
• Canadian Universities [index]
• Academic Associations [index]
• University student organizations:
  • Canadian Clubs Around the World, courtesy Princeton Canadians

Primary and secondary education

• Canada's SchoolNet
• Digital Education Network (DEN)
• CyberScol, a Quebec R&D project for the application of the new information technologies in education [French]
• TACT: Educating the Educators, courtesy the TeleLearning Research Network
• Media Awareness Network
• Cable in the Classroom
• Le projet Télécolombie (French-language education in B.C.) [French]
• Math Central
• EXN: Exploration Network (from Discovery Channel Canada)
• Canadian K12 School Registry (courtesy Web66)
• Education Canada [employment opportunities in various provinces]

Also:

Canadian Education on the Web [index]

• Strategis: Industry Canada Online

• The Information Highway In Canada
• CanadaIT: Information technology news and information
• Life on the Internet, companion to the Canadian TV documentary

• Industry Network Canada
• Canadian Space Directory
• Canadian Aviation Web Sites
• InterFace magazine (technology magazine)
• Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP)

Employment

• ActivEmploi [French]
• Canada Employment Weekly
• JobMatch
• Career Internetworking
• NetJobs: employment and resume listings
• United States Immigration Issues for Canadian Businesses and Professionals

Financial information

• Stock and Commodity Exchanges: Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Alberta, Vancouver
• Canadian Financial Network Inc.
• Financial Services Network
• Canada Wealth Net
• misc.invest.canada

Business

• Chartered Accountants of Canada
• Society of Management Accountants of Canada (CMA)

Directories

• Royal Canadian Web
• Commercial Web Sites in Canada
• Canadian Internet Business Directory (CIBD)
• AgriWeb Canada
• FoodNet
• Quebec Business Directory
• The Greater Fredericton Knowledge Industry Digital Directory (courtesy DISCscribe, Inc.)
• Ottawa Online Ventures

• www.canadashoppinglinks.com

• Seasonal Events
• Literature
  • The Canadian Literature Archive, including:
    • Canadian Writers on the Web
  • Book Nook -- book reports by and for kids (courtesy I-Site and SchoolNet)
  • New Canadian Books, reviews of recent Canadian English-language books
  • Librairie Gallimard Montréal [French]
  • Stephen Leacock Museum
  • L.M. Montgomery Institute

  Also:

  Canadian Writing Links [index]
  

• Stage
  • Cirque du Soleil
  • Shaw Festival (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario)
  • Stratford Festival (Stratford, Ontario)
  • Ganaraska Summer Stage (apprentice programme)
  • Bard on the Beach (Vancouver)

  Also:

  Monde théâtre [French]
  Stage Door: Theatre in southwestern Ontario

• Screen
  • Canadian Film Festivals
  • Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
  • National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
  • Alliance Releasing Home Page

  Also:

  Film and Media Related Web Sites in Canada (courtesy Queen's Film Studies) [index]

• Museums
  • Nova Scotia Museum
  • Musée de la civilisation of Quebec (Quebec City)
  • Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History, Pointe-a-Calliere
  • Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (Ottawa-Hull)
  • Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto)
  • Ontario Science Centre (Toronto)
  • McMichael Canadian Art Collections (Kleinburg)
  • Royal British Columbia Museum (Victoria)

  Also:

  CHIN -- Guide to Canadian Museums [index]
  Parks Canada: National Historic Sites
  Artwave@Rogers
  Société des musées québécois

• Music
  • Juno Awards
  • NetMusik (music in Quebec)
  • Jazz Canadiana
  • Canadian Jazz sites [index]
  • MuchMusic
  • MusiquePlus [French]
  • Orchestre Baroque de Montréal [French]
  • The Canadian Brass
  • The East Coast Music Awards home page
  • alt.music.canada, alt.fan.muchmusic
• Radio & Television
  • Canadian radio stations [index]
  • UltimateTV [index]
  • On the Web:
    • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    • CTV
    • APTN
    • Bravo!
    • CPAC ONLINE: Internet companion to the Canadian Parliamentary Channel
    • Discovery Channel Canada
    • MuchMusic
    • MusiquePlus [French]
    • RDS [French]
    • Showcase Television
    • TQS [French]
    • TSN
    • TV5 Québec Canada
    • TVA [French]
    • YTV
    • Télé-Québec (Quebec) [French]
    • tvo/tfo (Ontario)
    • ATV (Maritimes)
    • NTV (Newfoundland)
    • TVNC (North)
  • TV/Cable listings
  • Broadcasting schedules for:
    • CTV
  • Gémeaux Awards [French]
  • Banff Television Festival
  • List of Canadian TV Game Shows
• Sports
  • Croquet
  • Canadian Football League (CFL)
  • Major League Baseball: Montreal Expos, Toronto Blue Jays
  • Athletics Canada
  • Cross Country Canada (Nordic skiing)
  • TourNet [index]
    • Atlantic Canada Cycling
    • Tour du Canada

  Also:

  TSN - The Sports Network
  Canadian Sport -- The Centre
  

• etc.
  • Alliance Québec
  • The Banff Centre
  • The Canada Council
  • The CRB Foundation's Heritage Project
  • Dance Ontario
  • Newfoundland Arts Council
  • Réseau francoculture [French] (by the Fédération culturelle canadienne-française

Also:

CultureNet [index]
Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
Acadie-Net
Cultural Heritage in British Columbia, courtesy the BC Museums Association
Heritage Society of British Columbia
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
Saskatchewan's Active Living and Environment Program (ALEP)
Canadian Geneology and History Links [index]
Francophone geneological resources, by Denis Beauregard
TicketMaster Network

• Canadian information systems (index of Gopher, WWW and other servers)
• Maple Square: Canada's Internet Directory
• Yahoo! Canada [index]
• Canadian Information by Subject, by the National Library of Canada
• Theatres of Learning, a Canadian presence at the 1996 Internet World Exposition
• Canadian Internet Domain Information [index]
• Canuck Site of the Day
• CNet: Community Access Canada's Electronic Network
• Canadian Community Networks (FreeNets)
• Saskatchewan resource index
• Manitoba resource index
• La toile du Québec, a Quebec resource index
• The Montre@l page
• Atlantoile: francophone Web centre for Atlantic Canada
• NewBie: New Brunswick Internet Exchange
• NewfoundLinks [index]
• Assembly of First Nations
• Canadian Women's Internet Association (CWIA)
• Asian Canadian Resources [index]
• Age of Reason, (formerly Seniorsnet)
• Indie: The Integrated Network of Disability Information and Education
• Campus Café
• Canadian Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Resource Directory
• Nonprofit Organizations, courtesy Charity Village [index]
• Contact Center Network [index]
• Government of Canada Libraries
• Canadian Libraries via HyTelnet, NLC

• Canadian-oriented newsgroups
  • soc.culture.canada
  • soc.culture.quebec
  • misc.immigration.canada
  • misc.invest.canada
  • rec.sport.hockey, rec.sport.curling, rec.sport.football.canadian
  • rec.travel.usa-canada
  • alt.music.canada
  • alt.radio.networks.cbc, alt.tv.networks.cbc
  • alt.fan.muchmusic
  • alt.tv.kids-in-hall, alt.tv.sctv
  • alt.comedy.air-farce
  • The can.* geographic hierarchy is distributed throughout Canada and at other sites world wide. Popular groups within this hierarchy include can.general, can.gov.general, can.infohighway, can.jobs, can.legal, can.politics, and can.francais.