Canadiana

The Canadian Resource Page

[Version Francaise]

Contents

  • News and Information
  • Facts and Figures
  • Travel and Tourism
  • Government Services and Information
  • Politics and History
  • Science and Education
  • Technology and Commerce
  • Heritage, Culture and Entertainment

  • Other General Resources

    • News and Information
  • The CBC Radio News experiment via local mirror
  • and via CBC Radioworks in Toronto
  • Weather Forecasts: (courtesy of Environment Canada)
  • National Maps: Weather, Ozone, UV-B forecast
  • Climatic information
  • Regional Information:
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Atlantic Region, including graphical interface
  • Quebec [French]
  • Ontario
  • Prairie and Northern Region
  • Pacific and Yukon Region
  • Major cities
  • See also
  • National Daily News: Major stories and briefs (courtesy The (Halifax) Daily News Worldwide)
  • New! Canadian News Digest (daily news briefs), courtesy The Canadian Press
  • New! News Headlines, updated hourly, from CBC Radio News [text]
  • ClariNet newsgroups: clari.world.americas.canada, clari.world.americas.canada.business, and clari.world.americas.canada.review (subscribers only)
  • Lotto results in: Atlantic Canada

    Media

  • Canadian-based Publications Online (Newspapers, periodicals, journals, E-zines)
  • The CBC on the Internet
  • Radio-Canada International schedules and information

    • Facts and Figures
  • Interactive map of Canada (courtesy Xerox)
  • Canadian Geographical Names (courtesy National Atlas Information Service)
  • 1991 Census population figures (from Statistics Canada)
  • O Canada!, our national anthem: music [audio], and the lyrics in English and French
  • Lyrics to Gens du pays, the unofficial Quebec national anthem
  • Canadian and Provincial Flags and Arms
  • What the CIA Factbook (1994) says about Canada

  • Canadian Economic Indicators [unofficial]
  • Consumer Price Index
  • Currency Exchange information (updated weekly, courtesy GNN)

    • Travel and Tourism
  • Tour Canada without leaving your desk
  • Canadian Passport Office (courtesy NCF)
  • 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)
  • City.Net

    • Government Services and Information
  • Industry Canada's Open Government Pilot Project in Ottawa and some of its mirror sites across Canada and elsewhere, contains details about Parliament, and pointers to federal and provincial agencies.

  • The Parliament of Canada
  • CPAC ONLINE: Internet companion to the Canadian Parliamentary Channel

  • The Auditor General's Annual Report to the House of Commons (1994)
  • Environment Canada:
  • Atlantic , Ontario regions
  • State of the Environment Reporting Program
  • Fact sheets on Social Security Reform, by Human Resources Development Canada
  • Foreign Policy Page, courtesy the Politique étrangère du Canada/Canadian Foreign Policy journal
  • Industry Canada Document Database (courtesy CRC)
  • The Daily, by Statistics Canada

  • Law:
    Also:
    The can.legal newsgroups
    Law Notes Canadian Legal Resources [index]

  • Immigration:
  • Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CICNet)
  • The Immigration to Canada Page (unofficial)
  • The misc.immigration.canada newsgroup

  • Taxation and Finance:
  • Revenue Canada Gopher
  • Department of Finance
  • Departmental press releases
  • Income Tax information sources (courtesy TaxSites) [index]
  • Tax information and comments from: CGA Canada, TD Bank, B & H Income Tax Services, BDO Dunwoody, Deloitte & Touche, Doane Raymond, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Sweeny & Carter, Taxprep.
  • Canadian Form Centre (scanned versions of a few Revenue Canada forms)

  • Canadian Postal Corporation stamp issues for 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995.
    • Also:
    Federal Government of Canada (courtesy NCF)
    Provincial and Territorial Sources of Information (courtesy Open Government)

    Politics and History
  • Political material
  • Historical document collection (courtesy CPAC ONLINE)
  • CANADISK Canadian History Archive (courtesy SchoolNet)
  • Canadian Economic History Page

    • Science and Education
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  • Québec Science magazine [French]
  • Canada/MAB (Man and the Biosphere), a UNESCO program, including the on-line edition of Biosphere Reserves in Canada

  • Canadian PostDoc Fellowships
  • The Commonwealth of Learning, an organisation established by the Commonwealth of Nations

  • Government of Canada Libraries
  • Canadian Libraries (via HyTelnet)
  • Canadian museums

  • Academic associations:
  • Canadian Association of Palynologists
  • Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)
  • Canadian Psychological Association
  • Canadian Mathematical Electronic Services Home Page (courtesy the Canadian Mathematical Society)
  • Canadian Federation for the Humanities (CFH) Electronic Information Service (gopher)
  • Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI)
  • Division of Surface Science (courtesy the Canadian Society for Chemistry and the Canadian Association of Physicists)

  • University student organizations:
  • Canadian Federation of Engineering Students
  • Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate
  • Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union (SUSK)

  • Primary and secondary education:
  • Canada's SchoolNet
  • Points North: Canadian K-12 Resources
  • Le projet Télécolombie (French-language education in B.C.) [French]
  • Canadian Kids Home Page

    • Technology and Commerce
  • The Information Highway In Canada
  • Canadian Space Directory
  • InterFace magazine (technology magazine)
  • Ideas DIGest ONLINE (Ezine for the development of creative ideas and the business of innovation)

    Directories

  • Commercial Web Sites in Canada
  • Canada Net Pages(tm)
  • Canadian Business Advertising Network (currently very small)
  • Canadian Internet Business Directory (CIBD)
  • The Greater Fredericton Knowledge Industry Digital Directory (courtesy DISCscribe, Inc.)

  • Uniquely Canadian products (courtesy Fox Novator Systems)

    • Heritage, Culture and Entertainment
  • Stage
  • Shaw Festival 1995 (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario)
  • Stratford Festival 1995 (Stratford, Ontario)
  • Bard on the Beach (Vancouver)
  • Screen
  • Museums
  • Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)
  • Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (Ottawa-Hull)
  • Discovery Centre (Halifax)
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • Ontario Science Centre (Toronto)
  • Royal British Columbia Museum (Victoria)
  • Royal Tyrrell Museum (Alberta)
  • Also: CHIN -- Guide to Canadian Museums [index]
  • Seasonal Festivals
  • Music
  • Canadian Music Exchange (not very large yet)
  • Canadian Internet Music Source (more commercial)
  • International Music Network -- Canada
  • The Hard Bop Café Jazz Home Page
  • The Canadian Band index (courtesy Mars Subway Online)
  • Nettwerk Productions
  • MuchMusic
  • The Halifax Music page
  • The East Coast Music Awards home page
  • alt.music.canada
  • Radio & Television
  • The CBC on the Internet
  • Canadian Radio Stations [index]
  • On cable:
  • Broadcasting schedules for:
  • Gemini Awards for 1994 and 1995
  • Compilation of Canadian TV production exports
  • Sports
  • etc.
  • The Banff Centre
  • Chronique Québécoise [French]
  • Kindred Spirits: Mailing list dedicated to life and works of L.M. Montgomery (FAQ list)
  • SASKWATCH: The newsletter for Saskatchewan expatriates
    • Also:
    CultureNet
    Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
    Cultural Heritage in British Columbia, courtesy the BC Museums Association
    Culture in Nova Scotia, courtesy CFN
    TicketMaster Network

    Other General Resources
  • Canadian information systems (index of Gopher, WWW and other servers) [56k]
  • Canadian WWW registry
  • Canadian Domain Information [index]
  • Canadian Community Networks (FreeNets)
  • Canadian K12 School Registry (courtesy Web66)
  • Directory of French-language resources in Quebec, Canada, and the world
  • New! Aboriginal Super Information Highway
  • The Canada FAQ list [out-of-date, but still somewhat useful]
  • Government of Canada Libraries
  • Canadian Libraries (via HyTelnet)

  • Canadian-oriented newsgroups
  • soc.culture.canada
  • soc.culture.quebec
  • misc.immigration.canada
  • misc.invest.canada
  • rec.sport.hockey, rec.sport.football.canadian
  • rec.travel.usa-canada
  • alt.music.canada
  • alt.radio.networks.cbc
  • 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.infohighway, can.jobs, can.legal, can.politics, and can.francais. 

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