Web Search Guide Canada

1901 Census: It's a brute

1901 Census: It's a brute to find, but the National Archives of Canada has put the 1901 Census online - or rather "digitized images of the original census returns, which record age, nationality, religion, profession, income, education, etc for every single resident of Canada on 31 March 1901. " You can search by geographic region - meaning select the province and enter the town or county. These are images and will take time to download and they are hard to read. Before doing anything read the information page about the records and how to search. http://www.archives.ca/02/0201_e.html

Newspapers: Globe and Mail will

Newspapers: Globe and Mail will be following the lead of Toronto Star and having the archives of the last 158 years digitized. Work will be done by Cold North Wind. Their site at http://www.paperofrecord.com/ has some samples.

Globe and Mail archives to be digitized by Jack Kapica (May 29, 2002) Globe and Mail.

Domains: Canadian Internet Registration Authority

Domains: Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has tallied up .ca and .com domain names and found that although .com remains the preferred top-level domain for companies, use of .ca is increasing. 45% of Canadian companies have registered under .ca (though they may have a .com registration as well). Of all the domain names registered by Canadian companies 38% are .ca and 48% are .com. Number of dot-ca domain names are nearly 300,000, up from 60,000 in December 2000.

Results of a CIRA Study of Canadian Companies (May 28, 2002) at CIRA.ca

Online News: CCNMatthews (www.ccnmatthews.com), a

Online News: CCNMatthews (www.ccnmatthews.com), a Canadian news distribution company, has made changes to its web site. The day's news releases are on the front page and users may create a section called "My CCNMatthews". The site also carries schedules for company webcasts. The Media Folder has a page of links to PR and Media sites and there is a folder for Investor Relations. CCNMatthews' main product is Intelli-Watch for media monitoring.

National Archives National Archives of

National Archives National Archives of Canada announced the expansion of its online collection about French Canada through the acquisition of 22,000 digitized documents from the Archives of France. There are plans for the two countries to digitize more over the next two years. "Once complete, this large-scale project will have added more than 630,000 images to Canadian and French content on the Internet."

It's not easy to find and the National Archives does not mention this collection on its what's-new page. However the press release did give directions: "To see the 22,000 documents and their archival descriptions, go to the National Archives of Canada Web site (www.archives.ca). Once there, go to the Archives' online research tool, ArchiviaNet, click on Alphabetical List of Research Tools and select Colonial Archives. "

Tracing the History of New France is a good start - http://www.archives.ca/05/0517_e.html

National Archives of Canada - New France Online: 22,000 Documents Now Available Press release (May 15, 2002)

CNIB VisuCAT by Web from

CNIB VisuCAT by Web from the CNIB Library will make it easier to search the collection of braille books, talking books, descriptive videos, and a wealth of electronic books and resources.

"VisuCAT by Web allows users to search the collections of libraries such as the National Library for the Blind in the United Kingdom, the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, and the National Library of Canada. It also allows users to combine searches, so that it is possible to search for items in the CNIB Library and several or all of our partners at once. CNIB Library clients are also able to use VisuCAT by Web to place holds and renew items on-line." (From press release)

VisuCAT is at http://visucat.cnib.ca:8000/
Tutorials at http://www.cnib.ca/library/visunet/tutorials.htm

National Library Two useful reference

National Library Two useful reference documents for controlled vocabularies were added to the National Library of Canada:

Definitions of key terms in the field of controlled vocabularies
www.nlc-bnc.ca/8/4/r4-282-e.html
Defines and makes clear schema, ontology, taxonomy, and semantic web.

Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies Bibliography
www.nlc-bnc.ca/8/4/r4-290-e.html

Canadian Government News A new

Canadian Government News A new News site at Government of Canada brings together all the news releases issued by Government of Canada departments and agencies. http://www.news.gc.ca/index_e.html

This is one of several enhancements planned for the canada.gc.ca family of sites. "Communication Canada, the government department managing the Web site under the authority of Mr. Boudria, has developed more than 30 "subject and audience clusters" on topics such as children, safety and senior citizens for the Web site, which is designed as the primary access point on the Internet for government information."

See Canadian government Web site to get facelift by Jack Kapica (May 1, 2002) Globe and Mail

Canadian Economy New website from

Canadian Economy New website from the Government of Canada called Canadian Economy Online - "This one-stop guide to the national economy lets you check out statistics, access a wealth of federal government information and learn more about economic concepts and events." http://canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/

First page has current statistics for exchange rate, unemployment rate, prime interest rate and other key indicators. Links to many other resources in the federal government for economic information related to family, government, international issues etc. Also has snippets on economic concepts - difference between GDP and GNP.

Canadians Online "Almost three-quarters of

Canadians Online "Almost three-quarters of the country is now on-line, a new study from Ipsos-Reid says, up from 68 per cent a year ago. And nearly half of those are broadband users." ... "Broadband, the study concluded, is changing the nature of the Internet in Canada faster than elsewhere, because subscribers use the Internet in dramatically different ways if they have a faster connection. For instance, it said broadband fosters growth in such areas as on-line banking and shopping."

Canadian Web surfers feel need for speed: study by Jack Kapica (Apr 30, 2002) Globe and Mail