Natural Resources Canada {NRCan}

General Inquiries on NRCan
NRCan Employee Directory
The Source {February-March 1996}
Reengineering of Internal Services

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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.


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Information about NRCan Sectors

Canadian Forest Service

New! Licensable Technologies
The State of Canada's Forests 1994
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 Home Page
Canadian Model Forest Evaluation

Energy Sector

ES WWW server

Earth Sciences Sector

Geological Survey of Canada
New! Geological Survey of Canada (Ottawa)
New! Terrain Sciences Division
Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic)
Canadian National Seismograph Network (Canadian Earthquakes)
GSC main gopher menu
Library Catalog (login with username opac)

Geomatics Canada
Geodetic Survey Division
Legal Surveys Division and the International Boundary Commission
Canada Centre for Topographical Information Topographic Mapping Service
Canadian Geographical Names
National Atlas Information Service
NAISMap, the first WWW-based GIS!
National Atlas on SchoolNet
Defacto, Canadian Geographical Factbook
Our Home, The Atlas of Canadian Communities
National Pollutant Release Inventory
Aeronautical Charts Service
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing / Radarsat Achievement!
GCNET - Information Services for Earth Observation data
Business Development
Geomatics Information Centre (login with username opac)

Minerals and Metals Sector

Boyd Report on CBDC, Executive Summary
Canlib - CANMET library (login with username opac)
METS main gopher menu
Canadian Certified Reference Materials Project (CCRMP)
BIOMINET
Mine Environment Neutral Drainage Program (MEND)
Whitehorse Mining Initiative
Mining gopher
Economic and Financial Analysis Branch (including Minerals and Mining Statistics)
Sustainable Development and Minerals and Metals: An Issues Paper


Department-wide NRCan Information

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

Special Events

Quality Month news group (NRCan employees only)

Other Natural Resources Sites

Earth Sciences
Energy
Forestry
Lunenburg County - Forest Capital of Canada 1996
Geophysics
Natural Resources Organizations Worldwide
Remote Sensing

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Canadian Government Information

Prime Minister's Office
Budget 1996 - Budget Speech and Budget in Brief
Speech from the Throne: February 27, 1996
Publiservice
Prime Minister Announces New Ministry: January 25, 1996
Report of the Auditor General
Canada-Yukon Geoscience Office
Electronic Labour Exchange from Human Resources Development Canada
Third Annual Report on the Public Service of Canada
Natural Resources Standing Committee
Research and Development Bulletin
Directory of Federal Laboratories from NRC/CISTI
Government of Québec
Champlain: Canadian Government Information Explorer
Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
GIFT - Government Information Finder Technology from GTIS
Access Canada Initiative - access to federal government resources
1994 Auditor General's Report to the House of Commons
Building a More Innovative Economy, a policy document from Industry Canada
Canadian Government Information on the Internet by Anita Cannon
Canadian Museum of Civilization and Canadian War Museum
CPAC - Cable Parliamentary Channel
Electronic Journal: Government Information in Canada
Improving Social Security in Canada discussion paper
Open Government Pilot (NRCan mirror)
Parliamentary Internet Parlementaire

Government news groups:

can.gov.announce
can.gov.general

Canadian Information

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
New! Famous Canadians
What's New on the Canadian WWW Index this week
MuchMusic/Citytv/Bravo!
Repertoire de sites Web en francais
Humanities Canada
Canadiana, the Canadian Resources Page
Canadian Gopher servers
Canadian Internet Handbook
Canadian World Wide Web servers
The Discovery Channel @discovery.ca
Environment Canada Weather Information:
Current Ottawa weather
Today's national weather map
Tomorrow's national weather map
National Capital Freenet (Ottawa)

Travel and Tourism

Voyageur Colonial
Canadian Airlines International flight schedules (updated every half hour!)
Fleet House: Canada, a Canadian travel magazine
Nova Scotia Tourism
The Ottawa Tourist

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Links to Other Information

CRAYON: CReAte Your Own Newspaper
The Official Interactive Guide to the Academy Awards
Tables-of-Contents, Inc.
PBS - Public Broadcasting Service
French Lessons for the Beginner
U.S. Spy Satellite Photos (declassified)
Star Trek: Voyager
Energy and Environmental Research Center at University of North Dakota
Le MinistΦre de la culture et de la francophonie / The French Ministry of Culture
GPS Global Time Series from JPL, check tectonic plate movement!
VolcanoWorld!
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
World-Wide Earthquake Locator
The Face of Venus: Interactive Atlas of Craters on Venus
A Guide to The Eudora Mail Package
CapWeb - A Guide to the U.S. Congress
URouLette - go to a randomly-selected WWW site
Cool Site of the Day
United Nations information services
The Nine Planets tour of the solar system
Grand Canyon National Park
Visa home page
World Factbook 1994 from the CIA
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

Worldwide Internet Connectivity Information and Map.
The Accidental Superhighway, survey by The Economist
The Unofficial Internet Book List by Kevin Savetz
Internet Access Providers Around The World
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

comp.archives.msdos.announce software announcements
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

DejaNews - search Usenet news
Subject indexes: WWW Virtual Library | Yahoo | Gopher Jewels
Word searches: WebCrawler | Gopher Jewels | WAIS Content Router | Champlain
Archie database search and the SURAnet Archie Guide
Hytelnet - login to systems around the world (searchable) and Hytelnet Information
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.

Yale WWW Style Manual
Browser Checkup (see if your browser is up to date)
Building a Corporate Web seminar
Running a World-Wide Web Service
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
Introduction to HTML and URLs
HTML Style Guide
HTML Version 2.0 specification
Lynx browser help
NCSA httpd documentation
The International WWW Conference Series
webNews
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
BYTE Magazine
Cisco Information Online and Cisco Information Archive
Computer Events Directory
Dell Computer Corporation
Digital Equipment
Ethernet information
Hewlett-Packard and HP Supportline
IBM
Internet RFC search form
Lotus Development Corporation
Microsoft
Novell Online Services
One-Stop Windows 95 Site
Silicon Graphics
SPECmark Table
Sun Microsystems and SunSite
Wollongong Canada
Ziff-Davis Publishing, including MacWeek and PC Week magazines

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