Canada

Canada is a wonderful country. In addition to the beautiful land and friendly people, it has universal health insurance and a viable leftwing political party. The following sites will tell you other reasons Canada is wonderful.

This page had an old joke about Canada. However, since the recent elections, we Americans have no reason to feel superior. If you're Canadian, don't click on that link; you've already heard the joke.

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Canada, generally | Canadian News | Canadian Geography and History | Canadian Government and Politics | Canadian Education | Canadian Regions and Peoples

Canada, generally

• Canadian Information by Subject - Alphabetical and Dewey decimal order (Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada)
• Canada: Selected Internet Resources (Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
• Canadiana: The Canadian Resource Page (Carnegie Mellon University)
• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources - Bibliography with many Web links
• Database of Online Canadiana - Extensive set of annotated links in many categories (University of Marburg, Germany)
• Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives (Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada)
• Statistics Canada
• An American's Guide to Canada

Canadian News

• Canada.com
• CBC - Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
• CNews - Canadian news [canoe.ca]
• Globe and Mail
• Maclean's
• Today's Front Pages - Stories from Canada's leading papers (infomart.ca)
• Topix.net Canadian News (What's this?)

Canadian Geography and History

• Atlas of Canada - Official atlas
• Canadian Geographic magazine
• Canadian Atlas Online
• Museum of Canadian Civilization - Online exhibits on many aspects of Canadian culture
• Ask.com Maps and Directions - Walking as well as driving directions for the U.S. and Canada
• Columbia Gazetteer of North America - 2000 ed. (Bartleby)
• Archive of American Images - Images (including maps) of the Americas, 1492-1825 (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)

Canadian Government and Politics

• Canada site - Home page of the Government of Canada
• ParlInfo - Parliament and the rest of Canadian government
• Prime Ministers of Canada
• Centre for Research and Information on Canada (CRIC) - Research on Canadian public opinion
• Western Alienation - Introduction to a (the?) political mood in Western Canada

Canadian Education

• Canadian Universities

Canadian Regions and Peoples

• Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples

British Columbia:

• Encyclopedia of British Columbia [knowbc.com]
• Royal BC Museum, Victoria
• Tourism British Columbia [hellobc.com]
• Virtual Vancouver
• Vancouver's West End

Nunavut - Canada's newest territory:

• Government of Nunavut
• Nunavut Tourism
• Nunavut Weather - Click on a town on the map (Meteorological Service of Canada)
• Territorial Summary - See readings for all towns
• Nunatsiaq News

First Nations:

• Resources for Aboriginal Studies (U. of Saskatchewan)