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  • Teaching and Learning About Canada provides students and teachers with information and links dealing with Canadian Geography, History, Politics, Society, Culture and Wildlife, Time Zones, Graphs and Tables and much more.
    www.canadainfolink.ca/teach.htm

  • Symbols of Canada provides information on the national coat of arms, anthem, flag, colours and other emblems.
    www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/index_e.cfm

  • Heroes of Lore and Yore is the National Library of Canada's web page on Canadian heroes in fact and fiction.
    http://nlc-bnc.ca/heroes

  • Canadiana -- The Canadian Resource Page is a comprehensive compilation of Canadian internet resources prepared by Stewart Clamen at Carnegie Mellon University.
    www.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Canadiana

  • The Canadian Encyclopedia provides full text, mutimedia and interactive learning features as well as links to other related sites.
    www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/

  • AltaVista Canada is the Canadian content version of the AltaVista search engine, and houses the first-ever exclusively Canadian Web index of more than thirteen million pages. Using software developed on behalf of TELUS by Interdynamix Systems Corporation of Edmonton, AltaVista Canada searches only for Web sites stored within Canada in both official languages, English and French.
    www.altavista.ca

  • D-NET is the official world wide web site of the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.
    www.dnd.ca

  • Canadian Military Medals and Decorations presented by Veteran Affairs Canada and includes lists of Canadians awarded such medals as the Victoria Cross (under "Orders and Decorations").
    www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/cmdp/mainmenu

  • Statisics Canada / See: Canada - Statistics

  • Federal Finance Department provides background on the federal budget, or look at past budgets. Lots of links to other sites.
    www.fin.gc.ca

  • Fraser Institute is a right-wing think-tank that likes to address issues like taxation and debt. The site includes a good selection of international financial links.
    www.fraserinstitute.ca

  • Conference Board of Canada is a think-tank with lots of analysis of Canadian issues and lots of links. The Conference Board of Canada's mission is to help anticipate and respond to the increasingly changing global economy, through the development and exchange of knowledge about organizational strategies and practices, emerging economic and social trends and key public policy issues.
    www.conferenceboard.ca

    • Preparing for a citizenship test? Check out the Current Government Information for the Ajax area.

  • Citizenship and Immigration Canada official government site. Most of the applications you will need for immigration and citizenship services are available on this site in Adobe Acrobat format. This site also features fact sheets and other information on Canadian citizenship, as well as the Newcomer's Introduction to Canada and other publications.
    http://www.cic.gc.ca

  • Settlement.org provides information and resources for Immigrants to Ontario, Canada.
    www.settlement.org

  • Canadian Immigration Handbook compiled by Chang & Boos, Attorneys-at-law provides detailed information along with links to other related sites.
    http://americanlaw.com/cdndata.html

  • Pier 21: "Between 1928-1971, at Pier 21 on the Halifax waterfront, 1 million immigrants first set foot on Canadian soil." An excellent tribute to these immigrants and their stories. Various fascinating resources add much to Canadian history.
    www.pier21.ca

  • Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade provides extensive information including: Canada's relations with just about every country in the world, what you need to know about working in or visiting the United States, Canada's role in the recent international land mine treaty, the phone numbers and addresses of all Canadian embassies and consulates abroad, how to set up a business in Canada if you're an international company, travel advisories for tourists visiting troublesome areas of the world, and the complete text of the Foreign Service Exam that's given to all applicants in the Foreign Service.
    www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca

  • Canadian Foreign Policy, International Relations, and Related Sources provided by the United Nations Association in Canada, a national non-profit organization promoting UN programmes and activities within Canada. The Association offers individual Canadians a window into the work of the UN, and a channel through which to become engaged in the critical international issues affecting us all. This site includes a section for Kids, Youths and Educators
    www.unac.org/en/library/research/index.asp

  • Governor General of Canada is the official web site of the Governor General of Canada, and provides information on the Governor Generals past and present, the role and responsibility of the office, speeches, awards, and links to related sites.
    www.gg.ca

  • Canadian History on the Web: Just because historians sometimes work with old mouldy documents, doesn't mean that we're technophobes! There is history on the web! The following resource list is just to get you started on your search for Canadian History web sites, historical documents pertaining to Canadian History, including graphics, and Canadian museum and archives sites. Also included are fun and games with Canadian history and other resource web pages of note on this topic.
    http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwhist/faculty/sneylan/

  • History Lands inspired by the HistoryLands television series, you can now take a multimedia virtual tour of some of Canada's most fascinating National Historic sites., such as: Old Fort William, Dawson City, L'Anse Aux Meadows and many more!
    www.historylands.com

  • Canada at Scale is a history of Canada in terms of maps, presented by the National Archives. The maps in this exhibition reflect the evolution of cartography in our country: Aboriginal peoples, European colonial powers, Canadians, governments, private industry and academics all produced precious maps. Although some are less appealing aesthetically, they nevertheless are significant as testimonies to the beginning of map printing in this country. From the astrolabe to computers, the history of our country and evolution in technology are laid out before us. They are on the scale of human will and dreams.
    www.collectionscanada.ca/maps/index-e.html

  • The Canadian Encyclopedia provides full text, mutimedia and interactive learning features as well as links to other related sites.
    www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com

  • Are You Up to Date? Check the current federal, provincial, regional and municipal government information for the Ajax area.
    http://www3.sympatico.ca/web21/government.html

  • Government of Canada Internet Addresses is an alphabetical list of Government of Canada organizations and their related web site addresses.
    www.gc.ca/directories/internet_e.html

  • Government of Canada Forms and Services is a page of links to the most frequently requested Government of Canada forms, such as the Social Insurance Number Application/ Replacement. Many of these forms are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available for download at no charge on Adobe's web site.
    http://www.gc.ca/form/e-services_e.html

  • How Canadians Govern Themselves explores Canada's parliamentary system, from the decisions made by the Fathers of Confederation, to the daily work of Members of Parliament in the Commons and Senate chambers. Useful information on Canada's Constitution, the judicial system, and provincial and municipal powers is also gathered together here, as well as lists of past Prime Ministers and Governors General.
    www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/idb/forsey/how-e.htm

  • Canadian Government Information is the National Library of Canada's home page for any information the Library has on this topic. There are dozens of links to government-related sites on the Internet, including all official government home pages at the federal and provincial levels, useful government sites and other electronic publications, and government libraries online.
    www.collectionscanada.ca/politics-government/index-e.html

  • Quick Guide to The Canadian Constitution provides a chronology of the development of the Canadian Constitution and the Constitutional documents.
    www.cric.ca/en_html/guide/constitution/constitution.html

  • Prime Minister of Canada official homepage.
    http://pm.gc.ca

  • Prime Ministers of Canada (First Among Equals) provides pictures, biographies, speeches and other resources for all the Prime Ministers of Canada. Developed and maintained by the National Library of Canada. This site is also available in a Kid's Version.
    http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/

  • Royal Canadian Legion is Canada's largest veterans', ex-service persons' and community service organization with more than 500,000 members and more than 1,600 branches in Canada, the USA (21) and Germany (3).
    Remembrance is the cornerstone of The Royal Canadian Legion's work in Canada. The Poppy Campaign is a major source of funds used to assist veterans, ex-service people and their dependents. This page, is designed to help teachers and students in their search for material on Remembrance and those who want to know more about the Poppy Campaign.
    www.legion.ca

  • A Day of Remembrance presented by Veterans Affairs Canada. Every November 11th, Canadians across the country pause in a silent moment of remembrance for the men and women who served our country during wartime. We honour those who fought for Canada - in the First World War (1914-1918), the Second World War (1939-1945) and the Korean War (1950-1953). More than 1,500,000 Canadians served overseas - more than 100,000 died. They gave their lives and their future so that we may live in peace.
    www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/remember

  • In Flanders Fields, the Making of the Poem: John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915. Read about the history of this poem.
    www.geocities.com/~worldwar1/mccrae.html

  • Statistics Canada is the country's national statistical agency, with programs organized into three broad subject matter areas: demographic and social, socio-economic and economic. Under the Statistics Act, Statistics Canada is required to collect, compile, analyse, abstract and publish statistical information on virtually every aspect of the nation's society and economy.
    Products and services include downloadable publications as well as online statistics and the catalogue of publications.
    www.statcan.ca

  • GDSourcing: Canadian Statistics is a reference website. It is designed to identify what national Canadian Statistics are available on the Internet free of charge.
    www.gdsourcing.com

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