Contents

• 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

• 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)
• Front Page News, courtesy Southam newspapers
• Last Night's National (CBC) transcript
• Québec Update: A biweekly newsletter of Quebec happenings, courtesy Quebec's Ministère des Affaires internationales
• 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 Newfoundland, the Newfoundland national anthem
• 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
• Open Government (mirror sites)
• 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
  • Fax the Feds
• 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
  • State of the Environment Reporting Program
• Strategis: Industry Canada Online
  • Industry Canada Document Database
• 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
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • 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]
  • Canadian Human Rights Commission, including:
    • The Canadian Human Rights Act: A Guide
  • 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 Immigration to Canada Page (unofficial)
  • The misc.immigration.canada newsgroup

• Taxation and Finance:
  • Revenue Canada
  • Canadian government budgets
  • Income Tax information sources (courtesy TaxSites) [index]
  • 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 Government foreign policy and programs, courtesy The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
  • Canadian missions abroad:
    • official list
    • websites
  • Foreign Embassies in Canada [index]
  • Directory of Diplomatic Representatives in Canada

Also:

Federal Institutions

Federal Government of Canada (courtesy NCF)

Provincial and Territorial Sources of Information (courtesy Open Government)

• Political material
• Canadian Pulse On-Line Poll

• Historical document collection (courtesy CPAC ONLINE)
• Canadian Confederation, from the National Library of Canada
• Early Canadiana online New!
• Canada's National History Society On-line
• Canada at War: The Valour and the Horror
• The 20th-Century Timeline
• Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions
• Early Canadiana Online
• Canadian Economic History Page
• 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
• Diefenbaker Web
• 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)
History - Learning Resources (courtesy 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
• ScienceWeb

• 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
• Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program

• DeathNET

• 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:
  • AIESEC Canada
  • Canadian Federation of Engineering Students
  • Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate
  • Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union (SUSK)
  • Canadian Clubs Around the World, courtesy Princeton Canadians

Primary and secondary education

• Canada's SchoolNet
• Technology Based Learning Network Canada (TBL.CA)
• 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
• Points North: Canadian K-12 Resources
• Le projet Télécolombie (French-language education in B.C.) [French]
• ALS/ESL Cybersite, from the Société pour la promotion de l'enseignement de l'anglais, langue seconde, au Québec (SPEAQ) [French]
• Math Central
• EXN: Exploration Network (from Discovery Channel Canada)
• Canadian Kids Home Page
• Canadian K12 School Registry (courtesy Web66)
• Education Canada [employment opportunities in various provinces]

Also:

Canadian Education on the Web [index]

• Strategis: Industry Canada Online

• Canadian Internet Awards
• 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
• BIOWEB: Biotechnology in Canada
• Energy Links
• InterFace magazine (technology magazine)
• Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP)

Employment

• The Canadian Job Source, by Jeff Lawrence
• The Job Guide, by Margaret Riley
• Resumé Canada
• EMPLOI@ [French]
• ActivEmploi [French]
• Human Resources Development Canada's National Job Bank
• 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
• Digital Ink
• Canada Net's financial pages
• Canada Wealth Net
• The Fund library
• misc.invest.canada

Business

• Chartered Accountants of Canada
• Chartered Accountants of Quebec
• Society of Management Accountants of Canada (CMA)
  • regional affiliates

Directories

• Royal Canadian Web
• Commercial Web Sites in Canada
• Canadian Business Advertising Network (currently very small)
• Canadian Internet Business Directory (CIBD)
• RidgeCo business index
• AgriWeb Canada
• C.A.F.F.E.I.N.E: Canadian Agriculture, Farm and Food: Extension Information Network and Exchange
• FoodNet
• Agrimark's Agriculture index
• Canada Net
• Quebec Business Directory
• The Greater Fredericton Knowledge Industry Digital Directory (courtesy DISCscribe, Inc.)
• Ottawa Online Ventures

• Uniquely Canadian products (courtesy Fox Novator Systems)
• Canadian Wilderness Products
• Canada's Shopping Mall

• Seasonal Events
• Literature
  • The Canadian Literature Archive, including:
    • Canadian Writers on the Web
  • Canadian SF&F Resource Guide (speculative fiction)
  • 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
  • L'autre miroir, by Jacques Noël [French]

  Also:

  Canadian Writing Links [index]
  Alexandrie: la bibliothèque virtuelle [French]

• 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 Atlantis Communications - Motion Picture Distribution Group
  • Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm [French]
  • Canadian motion pictures registered in the Internet Movie Database

  Also:

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

• Museums
  • Nova Scotia Museum
  • Discovery Centre (Halifax)
  • Musée de la civilisation of Quebec (Quebec City)
  • Musée du Québec (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)
  • National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)
  • National Museum of Science and Technology (Ottawa)
  • Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto)
  • Ontario Science Centre (Toronto)
  • McMichael Canadian Art Collections (Kleinburg)
  • The Manitoba Museum (Winnipeg)
  • Royal Saskatchewan Museum (Regina)
  • Royal Tyrrell Museum (Drumheller, Alberta)
  • Royal British Columbia Museum (Victoria)

  Also:

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

• Music
  • Juno Awards
  • Canadian Music Centre
  • Canadian Internet Music Source (more commercial)
  • NetMusik (music in Quebec)
  • Primal Beat, music library
  • Canadian Composers Portraits project, (courtesy Faculty of Music, McGill University)
  • Creative Online Resource Exchange (C.O.R.E.)
  • Jazz Canadiana
  • Canadian Jazz sites [index]
  • Northern Journey Online: Canada Folk Music Website
  • MuchMusic
  • MusiquePlus [French]
  • Orchestre Baroque de Montréal [French]
  • Les violons du roy
  • The Canadian Brass
  • The East Coast Music Awards home page
  • alt.music.canada, alt.fan.muchmusic
• Radio & Television
  • Canadian radio stations [index]
  • Canadian television networks and stations, courtesy 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
  • Gemini Awards for 1994, 1995, 1996 1997, and 1998
  • Gémeaux Awards [French]
  • Banff Television Festival
  • Compilation of Canadian TV production exports
  • List of Canadian TV Game Shows
• Sports
  • Croquet
  • Curling
  • Canadian Football League (CFL)
  • Figure Skating
  • Hockey
  • Major League Baseball: Montreal Expos, Toronto Blue Jays
  • Track-Canada
  • Field Hockey Canada
  • Athletics Canada
  • Cross Country Canada (Nordic skiing)
  • La Bonne éhappée (cycling) [index]
  • TourNet [index]
    • Atlantic Canada Cycling
    • Tour du Canada

  Also:

  TSN - The Sports Network
  Canadian Sport -- The Centre
  NETLiNkS! Canadian Sports [index]
  Sport: BC, NS

• 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
  • Saveurs du Monde [French]
  • Well Known People Who Happen to be Canadian [index]

Also:

CultureNet [index]
Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
C-Arts
Acadie-Net
Cultural Heritage in British Columbia, courtesy the BC Museums Association
Heritage Society of British Columbia
Vancouver Arts Index
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
Saskatchewan's Active Living and Environment Program (ALEP)
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (Yellowknife)
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
• Explorateur, par TotalNet [index] [French]
• 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]
• Canadian Community Networks (FreeNets)
• Canadian Internet Service Providers [index]
• Northern Canada's Net Index
• 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
• Links to Aboriginal Websites, courtesy the Assembly of First Nations
• Canadian Women's Internet Directory [index]
• 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]
• Nonprofit Organization resource index, courtesy 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.