Natural Resources Canada

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As the predominant natural resource department of the federal government, Natural Resources Canada has a mandate to promote the sustainable development and responsible use of Canada's mineral, energy and forestry resources, and to develop an understanding of Canada's landmass. The Honourable Anne McLellan is the Minister of NRCan.

À titre de principal ministère du gouvernement fédéral en matière de ressources naturelles, Ressources Naturelles Canada a le mandat de promouvoir le développement durable et l'utilisation responsable des ressources minérales, énergétiques et forestières du Canada et de favoriser la connaissance de la masse continentale canadienne.


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Information about NRCan sectors

Canadian Forest Service
New! Canadian Wildland Fire Information System
CFS main gopher menu
Model Forest Program
Newfoundland & Labrador Region
Northern Forestry Centre
Pacific Forestry Centre
Weedjobs - employment opportunities in weed science
Corporate Services Sector
emr1 Internet Server (authorized users only)
GFS - Government Financial System (NRCan employees only)
NRCan Headquarters Library (login with username opac)
Energy Sector
ES gopher server
ES WWW server
Geological Survey of Canada
New! Canadian Earthquakes
New! GSC WWW home page
New! Atlantic Geoscience Centre Web server
New! Continental Geoscience Division Home Page
GSC main gopher menu
Library Catalog (login with username opac)
Geomatics Canada (formerly Surveys, Mapping, and Remote Sensing Sector)
New! GCNET (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) - Information Services for Earth Observation data
Geomatics Canada Library (login with username opac)
Geomatics Canada main gopher menu
Canada Centre for Mapping
Canadian Geographical Names
National Atlas Information Service
NAISMap - the first WWW-based GIS! by Glen Newton
New! National Schoolnet Atlas
Our Home, The Atlas of Canadian Communities
Geodetic Survey
Mineral and Energy Technology Sector
Canlib - CANMET library (login with username opac)
METS main gopher menu
Mining Sector /Secteur Minier
Mining Sector gopher/ gopher de la Secteur Minier

Department-wide NRCan information

New! 1995-96 NRCan Budget Estimates (employees only)
Services to the general public
Maps of Natural Resources Canada campuses
NRCan phone book query,
NRCan gopher server
nrcan.general news group
nrcan.networks news group
NRCan anonymous FTP files

Special Events

New! Quality Month news group (October, NRCan employees only)
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Canadian Government Information

New! Parliamentary Internet Parlementaire
New! National Library of Canada Electronic Publications Pilot Project
New! Federal Budget 1995 - available shortly after release (4:30 p.m., Monday, February 27)
New! can.gov.announce news group
New! can.gov.general news group
New! Environment Canada
New! CPAC - Cable Parliamentary Channel
New! Building a More Innovative Economy, a policy document from Industry Canada
Access Canada Initiative - access to federal government resources
1994 Auditor General's Report to the House of Commons
Canadian Government Information on the Internet by Anita Cannon
Canadian Museum of Civilization and Canadian War Museum
New! CISTI Federal Government Internet Forum '94
Electronic Journal: Government Information in Canada
Improving Social Security in Canada discussion paper
Open Government Pilot from Industry Canada (NRCan mirror)

Canadian Information

New! MuchMusic/Citytv/Bravo!
New! Repertoire de sites Web en francais
New! Humanities Canada
New! Mitel Semiconductor
New! The Discovery Channel @discovery.ca
New! The Ottawa Tourist
New! Fleet House: Canada, a Canadian travel magazine
New! GIS '95 Symposium in Vancouver
New! Silicon Valley North Hi-Tech Directory
New! Canadian Airlines International flight schedules (updated every half hour!)
New! Nova Scotia Tourism
New! The Internet Prospector (TIP) from Bunyip/CA*Net
Canadiana, the Canadian Resources Page
Canadian Gopher servers
Canadian Internet Handbook
Canadian World Wide Web servers
New! Environment Canada Weather Information:
Current Ottawa weather
Today's national weather map
Tomorrow's national weather map
National Capital Freenet (Ottawa)
XV Commonwealth Games in Victoria, August 18th to 28th, 1994

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Links to other information

New! CRAYON: CReAte Your Own Newspaper
New! The Official Interactive Guide to the Academy Awards
New! Tables-of-Contents, Inc.
New! PBS - Public Broadcasting Service
New! French Lessons for the Beginner
New! U.S. Spy Satellite Photos (declassified)
New! Star Trek: Voyager
New! G7 World Conference on the Global Information Society starting February 24th
New! Energy and Environmental Research Center at University of North Dakota
New! Le Ministère de la culture et de la francophonie / The French Ministry of Culture
New! GPS Global Time Series from JPL, check tectonic plate movement!
New! VolcanoWorld!
New! International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
New! World-Wide Earthquake Locator
New! The New Orleans Mardi Gras (February 17-28)
New! The Face of Venus: Interactive Atlas of Craters on Venus
New! A Guide to The Eudora Mail Package
New! CapWeb - A Guide to the U.S. Congress
New! URouLette - go to a randomly-selected WWW site
New! Cool Site of the Day
New! United Nations information services
New! The Nine Planets tour of the solar system
New! Grand Canyon National Park
New! Visa home page
New! World Factbook 1994 from the CIA
New! Time Magazine (Time-Warner Pathfinder)
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NCSA's What's New in Cyberspace
Top o What's New from Multimedia Ink Designs
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Acronym server
Best of the Web '94 Awards
Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
Commercial Sites on the Web
Economics and the Internet
E-D-U-P-A-G-E News Clips
FAQ (Frequently-Asked-Questions) lists
Free-Nets
International FAX gateway (send a FAX from Mosaic!)
Internet Patent Search System from STO
Joel's Hierarchichal Subject Index
NetWorld+InterOp Program Guide
Net-Happenings (WAIS-indexed), and Net-Happenings Archive
Planet Earth Home Page
Space Calendar from NASA
The Daily Planet and Weather World
The Well Connected Mac, pointers to all Macintosh information on the Net
Treasury of the French Language, University of Chicago
United States Government Resources, FedWorld, and The White House
USENET Newsgroups: Resources

Information about the Internet

New! Internet Access Providers Around The World
New! Internet books and magazines
Internet 25th Anniversary
Internet-related Conferences
Internet service providers around the world
Internet Training Resources
InterNIC Directory and Database Services
InterNIC Information Services
Realizing the Information Future, The Internet and Beyond
Stories of how people are using the Internet
The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet
The Internet Index (Internet statistics)
The Present and Future of the Internet (Keynote speech at InterOp Tokyo)
World Wide Web Guide to the Internet by John December

Technical Information

New! comp.archives.msdos.announce software announcements
New! comp.archives software announcements
PPP documentation
PC-Mac TCP/IP & NFS FAQ
Unix Help for Users
Windows Shareware Archive at Cal State
Winsock Application FAQ and The Consummate Winsock App List

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Searching for Information

Subject indexes: WWW Virtual Library | Yahoo | Gopher Jewels
Word searches: WebCrawler | Gopher Jewels | WAIS Content Router
Archie database search and the SURAnet Archie Guide
Hytelnet - login to systems around the world (searchable)
LISTSERV mailing lists reference
The Internet Prospector (TIP) from Bunyip/CA*Net
World Wide Web Guide to the Internet by John December

Information about the World Wide Web, HTML, browsers, etc.

New! Yale WWW Style Manual
New! Browser Checkup (see if your browser is up to date)
New! Building a Corporate Web seminar
New! Third International World-Wide Web Conference April 10-14, 1995, Darmstadt, Germany
New! Running a World-Wide Web Service
New! WWW/Mosaic Training from the U.S. Geological Survey
CyberWeb - WWW developer resource center
Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace
Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
HTML Developer's Page
HTML Documents: A Mosaic Tutorial
HTML FAQ
HTML Language Manual
HTML Style Guide
HTML Version 2.0 specification
Lynx browser help
NCSA httpd documentation
webNews
World Wide Web Conference '94: Proceedings
World Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions
World Wide Web Tutorial Slides by Mark Maimone
WWW mailing lists and news groups

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Information for Network and System Administrators

Apple Support and Information Web
ATM Forum
Black Box On-Line Catalog
Cisco Information Online and Cisco Information Archive
Dell Computer Corporation
Digital Equipment
Ethernet information
Hewlett-Packard and HP Supportline
IBM
Internet RFC search form
New! Lotus Development Corporation
Microsoft
Novell Online Services
Silicon Graphics
SPECmark Table
Sun Microsystems and SunSite
Wollongong Canada
Ziff-Davis Publishing, including MacWeek and PC Week magazines

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