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Links to Canada
Government and Organizations:
The Government of Canada
The Catholic Immigration Centre (CIC) is the largest settlement
agency in Ottawa and this is a good site for anyone who is thinking about immigrating to Canada since it has
a lot of useful resources.
The Canadian Genealogy and History site
contains a large amount of resources for anyone wishing to trace their roots in Canada.
The Environment Canada Weather Office
Transport Canada
Travel and Tourism:
The Canadian Tourism Commission
Excite's travel guide to Canada
Destination Canada
as seen by the Lonely Planet travel guides.
Vancouver Magazine
Exploring Nunavut - discover what Canada's newest territory has to offer.
The Toronto Zoo
Toronto City Guide
Canada's capital and its region provides a good guide
to the happenings in and around Ottawa.
The Quebec City Guide
Check out timetables, fares and destinations at theVia Rail Canada
website.
The Air Canada and Canadian Airlines website is excellent. It gives you information on
everything from the latest timetables and fares to what inflight movies will be playing. It also allows you to book
tickets electronically and enables Aeroplan members to check their status online.
News and Media:
The "paperboy" delivers electronic versions of your favourite
Canadian newspapers to your desktop. This is also a great site for accessing online newspapers from other countries.
The CBC Radio website.
CBC Newsworld Online
The Hockey Night in Canada website gives you access to the latest game scores
plus information about your favourite players and teams.
The National Film Board of Canada
Language and Literature:
The Canadian Literature Archive is a repository for
information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, literary organizations, magazines and publications,
books, texts and library archives.
At the website for the Canadian Authors Association, you can find links for
libraries, universities, archives and news sources online.
French-Canadian Legends - here you can read about the loup-garou (werewolf)
and the chaisse-galerie (flying canoe) in English and in French.
People and Culture:
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Canada - this
site also includes information about the Viking Colony in L'anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland where the first
European settlement took place in 1000 AD.
SOAR's Canadian Recipes database
Uniquely Canada is a website of products that are made in Canada
and will meet almost every gift giving need.
Canada 411 is a very useful directory for finding phone numbers, and sometimes addresses, of
people and businesses in Canada.
Use a section of the Canada Post website to look up the postal
code for virtually any address in Canada. This is particularly invaluable during the Christmas season.;)
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