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| | Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court and final arbiter. | | | Canada's judiciary plays an important role in interpreting laws and has the power to strike down laws that violate the Constitution. | | | Members of the Senate, whose seats are apportioned on a regional basis, are chosen by the prime minister and formally appointed by the Governor General, and serve until age 75. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
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| | Historical abortion statistics, Canada |
| | Office of National Statistics, Abortion Statistics: Legal abortions carried out under the 1967 Abortion Act in England and Wales, 2002, 2003, Office of National Statistics, on line [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/]. | | | Office of National Statistics, Abortion Statistics: Legal abortions carried out under the 1967 Abortion Act in England and Wales, 1997, 1998, Office of National Statistics, on line [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/]. | | | Office of National Statistics, Abortion Statistics: Legal abortions carried out under the 1967 Abortion Act in England and Wales, 1996, 1997, Office of National Statistics, on line [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/]. |
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http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-canada.html
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| | Paid to be Poor - Glossary |
| | The National Advisory Council on Aging was created on May 1, 1980, to assist and advise the Minister of Health on all matters related to the aging of the Canadian population and the quality of life of seniors. | | | A landed immigrant is a person who has been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. | | | Recent immigrants or new immigrants refer to people who gained landed immigrant status between one and five years ago. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/paidtobepoor/glossary.html
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| | Finding Canadian statistics |
| | Also includes historical census aggregate statistics from 1665-1871 censuses, as well as 1997 and 2000 federal election results by province and federal electoral district. | | | Contains: percent voter turnout, Canada and provinces, election years 1896 through 2000. | | | Provincial and territorial departments and ministries responsible for education in Canada: |
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/findcans.htm
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| | Statistics Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Statistics is a federal responsibility in Canada and StatCan produces statistics for all the provinces as well as the federal government. | | | The head of Statistics Canada is the Chief Statistician of Canada'. | | | This page was last modified 14:08, 9 May 2006. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_Canada
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Canada |
| | Supreme Court of Canada (judges are appointed by the prime minister through the governor general); Federal Court of Canada; Federal Court of Appeal; Provincial Courts (these are named variously Court of Appeal, Court of Queens Bench, Superior Court, Supreme Court, and Court of Justice) | | | Canada also faces questions about integrity in government following revelations regarding a corruption scandal in the federal government that has helped revive the fortunes of separatists in predominantly francophone Quebec. | | | Bloc Quebecois [Gilles DUCEPPE]; Conservative Party of Canada (a merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party) [Stephen HARPER]; Green Party [Jim HARRIS]; Liberal Party [Paul MARTIN]; New Democratic Party [Jack LAYTON] |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ca.html
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| | Custody Statistics for Canada |
| | The data on divorces is collected by the Central Divorce Registry of the Department of Justice, Canada., from the courts in each province and territory. | | | Information regarding custody determinations by Courts of Law in Canada is available from Statistics Canada, and from the Central Divorce Registry of the Department of Justice, Canada. | | | Statistics Canada breaks down the data by Divorce Law (either 1968 or 1985), who was the Applicant/Petitioner and Respondent, and how many children were awarded to which party. |
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http://www.fathersforlife.org/millar/custody.htm
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| | Incidence of Circumcision in Canada |
| | Some unofficial statistics for 2003 for seven provinces and one territory, which had 75 percent of the total male births in Canada found that only 11.46 percent of Canadian infant boys in the reporting provinces and territories are being circumcised, which leaves 88.14 percent intact. | | | Statistics on the incidence of male neonatal circumcision in Canada were formerly derived from the number of insurance benefits paid by the provincial health insurance plans. | | | The Canadian Institute for Health Information, which in 1994 took over the national Hospital Database from Statistics Canada, reports that in fiscal 1996/97, circumcision was performed as a primary procedure on less than 17% of Canadian male neonates. |
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http://www.cirp.org/library/statistics/Canada
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| | Census Geography - Thematic Maps |
| | Education in Canada: School Attendance and Levels of Schooling | | | You need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the document above. |
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http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Maps/ThematicMaps/index_e.cfm
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| | Canadiana -- The Canadian Resource Page |
| | Canada Law, from Osgoode Hall Law School [index] | | | Supreme Court of Canada decisions (courtesy the Supreme Court of Canada and the Centre de recherche en droit public of the Université de Montréal) | | | Canadian Confederation, from the National Library of Canada |
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/Canadiana/README.html
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| | Statistics: Cost Recovery and Statistics Canada |
| | For instance, Census profile series covering the provinces and territories are priced at $125 a province for hardcopy. | | | Copyright and the State in Canada and the United States | | | Statistics Canada, being an entity of the Federal Government has the right under law to copyright intellectual property along with the works it produces. |
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http://www.stats.gov.sk.ca/docs/costrec.php
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| | Ethnologue report for Canada |
| | Southern Tsimshian is at the southern end on the coast at Klemtu. | | | All Inuit first-language speakers in Canada 18,840 (1981 census). | | | In Canada, 1,500 are in mainland Nova Scotia, 4,000 on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 800 on Prince Edward Island and Lennox Island, 4,550 on the east coast of New Brunswick, 3,150 on the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, 200 in Newfoundland. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Canada
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| | Canadian Social Statistics - Statistiques sociales du Canada |
| | Unfortunately, the section on the Canada Assistance Plan provides stats only from 1970 to 1975, but you'll find other historical gems here, like federal transfers to the provinces and territories, 1947 to 1975, Unemployment insurance account, 1942 to 1976, Old Age Pensions recipients for Canada and by province, March 1928 to 1951, and much more... | | | Canada had the second highest rate of population growth among the G8 countries between 1994 and 2004, exceeded only by that of the United States. | | | "This is the first edition of the Social Assistance Statistical Report: 2004 of the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Directors of Income Support. |
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http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/stats.htm
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| | Directory of Statistics Canada Data |
| | Population projections for Canada, provinces and territories, 2000-2026 | | | We are proud to be able to offer discounts on many Stats Can publications. | | | Statistics Canada on-line catalogue, get the title and catalogue number and contact us at contact@gdsourcing.com |
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http://www.gdsourcing.com/works/StatCan.htm
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| | Magic Statistics: A primer on crime statistics |
| | The overall percentage in all 17 countries was 2.4%; Canada stood at 3.4%; the United States at 1.9%. | | | The GSS is a survey conducted in Canada by Statistics Canada, while the NCVS is an American survey conducted by the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. | | | So also statistical and justice agencies in virtually every developed country. |
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http://magicstatistics.blogspot.com/2006/01/primer-on-crime-statistics.html
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| | SFU Library - Statistics - BC |
| | Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. | | | The central statistical agency of the Province of British Columbia, BC STATS collects and publishes reports of statistics from Statistics Canada, provincial government ministries and agencies and from administrative files. | | | Search the Statistics Canada Online Catalogue using British Columbia or using the subject you want and the term "province", e.g., housing and province. |
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http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/subjectguides/general/bcstats.htm
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| | SFU Library - Statistics - Canada |
| | Statistics Canada (www.statcan.ca/) is the major statistical gathering agency of the federal government. | | | Census publications are filed by census year, then publication number (e.g., 1996 Census no. | | | For information on British Columbia statistics, see the Library guide British Columbia Statistics. |
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http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/collections/specificcollections/statscan.htm
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| | Drug statistics: Canada 1997 |
| | Court data from seven provinces and one territory for the fiscal year 1996/1997 show that almost two-thirds (64%) of people convicted of drug trafficking were sentenced to prison, five times the proportion of people jailed for drug possession (13%). | | | Statistics Canada today releases a Juristat with a detailed analysis of criminal drug offences reported by Canadian police forces. | | | In 1997, police forces in Canada reported 66,500 offences under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. |
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http://www.cfdp.ca/statcan.htm
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| | Bloomberg.com: Canada |
| | Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's homicide rate fell to a three-decade low last year, as fewer people were murdered in the entire country than in Chicago alone. | | | The Maritime provinces enjoy the lowest homicide rates in Canada, and Prince Edward Island is the least murderous province with a rate of 0.73 homicide per 100,000. | | | Canada's decline contrasts with murder trends in the U.S., where the number of reported homicides has risen for the past three years. |
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http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=aGEsdK7xB3M8&refer=canada
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| | CCSD - Free Statistics |
| | Estimated Number of Canadians on Welfare, 1993-1994, by Province and Territory | | | Estimated Number of People on Welfare, 1994-1995, by Province and Territory | | | Average Incomes of Families and Unattached Individuals, Canada, 1951-1995 |
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http://www.ccsd.ca/facts.html
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| | Road Safety - Statistics and Reports |
| | Survey of Seat Belt Use in Rural Areas of Canada, September 2002 (May 2003) | | | Transport Canada’s Surveys of Seat Belt Use in Canada, 2004-2005 (February 2006) | | | Results of Transport Canada’s September 2004 Survey of Seat Belt Use in Rural Areas of the Country (May 2005) |
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http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/stats/menu.htm
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| | Violence Against Women Partners METRAC |
| | Four out of five women were there to escape an abusive situation, the majority from abuse by a current partner (64%) or ex-partner (21%). | | | (Statistics Canada 1993, 7) The 1999 General Social Survey found that in the five year period prior to the survey, 37% of women who had been victims of spousal violence had reported an incident to police (Statistics Canada 2000, 5) | | | Women are three times as likely to report the incident(s) to police if their children witnessed violence against them, four times more likely if a weapon was used against them, and five times more likely to call the police if they feared for their lives. |
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http://www.metrac.org/new/stat_vio.htm
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| | BC STATS: Home |
| | BC Stats is the central statistical agency of the Province of British Columbia. | | | We have the provincial government's largest concentration of statistical products, services and expertise. | | | The 2005 edition of the profile of British Columbia's high technology sector incorporates an updated definition of what industries constitute high technology and offers data on various indicators of output such as GDP, employment and international trade. |
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http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca
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| | Statistics: Canada |
| | Implementation of the Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000: Second Evaluation: Eighth Report on the World Health Situation R.3 Region of the Americas | | | Smoking and Health in the Americas: A 1992 Report of the Surgeon General, in Collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization | | | The sources can be browsed by subject and deal primarily with British Columbia |
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http://healthlinks.washington.edu/statistics/canada
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| | Agri-Food Trade Service - Trade Statistics |
| | Agriculture Statistics British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries | | | Agriculture and Fish Statistics Nova Scotia Agriculture and Fisheries | | | Canadian Automated Export Declaration Canada Customs and Revenue Agency |
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http://atn-riae.agr.ca/stats/stats-e.htm
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| | CIC Canada Research and Statistics |
| | Consult Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s annual statistical publications to learn about new permanent residents to Canada as well as temporary residents entering Canada to work, study or for humanitarian and compassionate reasons. | | | The publication of this report ceased into the production of the 1996 statistics. | | | Consult Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s evaluation and audit reports. |
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| | CBC News: Visible minorities to top 50% in Toronto, Vancouver by 2017 |
| | Statistics Canada's study defines visible minorities according to the Employment Equity Act — "persons, other than Aboriginal persons 'who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.' " | | | In contrast, the median age of the rest of the population will be 43.4 years, nearly six years higher than it was in 2001. | | | This means that more than half of Canada's South Asians and about 40 per cent of Canada's Chinese will be living in Toronto. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/22/visibleminorities-statscan0322.html
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| | Alberta-Canada.com :: Statistics & Publications |
| | AED's Stats and Pubs section offers a variety of publications, statistics, reports, and studies published by the department. | | | Statistics Canada confirms Alberta as nation’s leading economy in 2005 | | | Overview of the recent performance and short-term outlook for the Alberta and Canadian economies and their major trading partners, such as the U.S., China, Japan and the European Union. |
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http://www.alberta-canada.com/statpub
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| | Canada:Country Web Pages |
| | In 2004, unemployment in Canada, at 7.3%, stood just above the OECD average of 6.9%, while the share of individuals who had been unemployed for more than one year, at 9.5%, remained among the lowest in the OECD. | | | This document contains extracts from the publication "Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries: Monitoring and Evaluation 2005" which provide a consistent snapshot of support to agriculture in Canada. | | | Perspectives économiques de l'OCDE No. 78 - Canada |
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http://www.oecd.org/country/0,3021,en_33873108_33873277_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
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| | DOC ITC Bookstore: Statistics Canada |
| | Under the Statistics Act, Statistics Canada is required to collect, compile, analyze, abstract and publish statistical information on virtually every aspect of the nation's society and economy. | | | 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. | | | This Web site is managed by DOC's National Technical Information Service |
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| | Pat's Boating in Canada: Boating Statistics |
| | The boat was usually 14 feet long and there was frequently a case of empties, suggesting that the fisheman may have been answering the call of nature, standing very close to the gunwale, when he fell in. | | | The average annual number of boating deaths in Ontario from 1969 to 1979 stood at 97. | | | More than 50,000 personal watercraft have been sold in Canada, an astonishing 25 percent of annual boat sales. |
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http://boating.ncf.ca/stats.html
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| | Statistics Canada |
| | Internet publications from Statistics Canada, many of which are no longer published in paper but continue in electronic format. | | | Search GovInfo, the Library's database of selected government websites for current information and reports from these agencies. | | | Current StatCan publications are shelved on level 2 of Koerner Library. |
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http://www.library.ubc.ca/govpubs/statcan.html
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| | Cancer statistics |
| | The Steering Committee on Cancer Statistics is responsible for developing and distributing this publication annually. | | | Comparison of cancer in Canada from 1987 to 1997 | | | Each year since 1987, the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) has published and interpreted current statistics about cancer in Canada. |
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http://www.ncic.cancer.ca/ncic/internet/standard/0,3621,84658243_85787780__langId-en,00.html
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| | Rates and Statistics - Table of Contents - Bank of Canada |
| | Yields on zero-coupon bonds, generated using pricing data on Government of Canada bonds and treasury bills | | | Permission is granted to reproduce or cite portions herein, if attribution is given to the Bank of Canada. | | | Rates and Statistics - Table of Contents - Bank of Canada |
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http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates
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| | Labour Force Statistics |
| | The Labour Force Survey is the primary source of statistics on employment and unemployment in Canada and the provinces. | | | As a result, the data in January 2006 reports and packages will differ from those of prior reports. | | | Statistics Canada has recently made revisions to the Labour Force Survey statistics from 1987 to 2005. |
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http://www3.gov.ab.ca/hre/lfstats/index.asp
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| | Standardbred Canada: Racing Statistics |
| | Use of this site signifies your agreement and compliance with the legal disclaimer and privacy policy. | | | • Fastest horses in Canada for this year. | | | Click here to return to the Standardbred Canada home page. |
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http://www.standardbredcanada.ca/statistics
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| | Population by Provinces and Territories |
| | Atlas: Nova Scotia - Facts on Nova Scotia: flags, maps, geography, history, statistics, disasters current events, and international relations. | | | Atlas: Northwest Territories - Facts on Northwest Territories: flags, maps, geography, history, statistics, disasters current events, and international relations. | | | Atlas: Prince Edward Island - Facts on Prince Edward Island: flags, maps, geography, history, statistics, disasters current events, and international relations. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107390.html
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| | Statistical Publications - Index - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada |
| | We are continually striving to make our site accessible to all, including persons with disabilities and to those who use assistive devices. | | | Statistical Publications - Index - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada | | | The Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Web site is developed according to the Common Look and Feel Standards and Guidelines |
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http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/pr/sts/index_e.html
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| | Statistics Canada Census Monographs |
| | is the first in a series of 1991 census monographs produced by Statistics Canada. | | | These monographs offer substantive, in-depth analyses of selected themes and demonstrate the power and value of census data. |
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http://www.nelson.com/nelson/statscan/statscan.html
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| | 2006 Census of Canada: Welcome |
| | Paper questionnaires will be delivered to households across Canada during the first week of May. If you have not received a Census questionnaire by May 14, please contact us. | | | Before you start: you will need the Internet access code located on the front page of the printed questionnaire. |
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http://www.census2006.ca
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| | Statistics on Natural Resources - Statistics and Facts 2003 |
| | The complete fact sheet, including statistics and facts on all three industrial sectors and a thumbnail sketch of the Canadian geomatics industry, is also available in Adobe.pdf format. | | | Further information on the natural resource industries can be obtained by clicking on the links "Facts on Energy", "Facts on Forestry", "Facts on Geomatics" or "Facts on Minerals and Metals" that appear above the table. | | | The data reported for each of the natural resource sectors reflect the value of the primary industries and related downstream manufacturing industries. |
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http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/statistics/factsheet.htm
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| | Douglas College Library Catalogue |
| | Type as much or as little of the Statistics Canada Document Number as you want. | | | Type as much or as little of the ISBN / ISSN as you want. |
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http://innopac.douglas.bc.ca
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| | Census Geography - Maps |
| | This application has features that may not be accessible to all users, but all the information it presents can be found on the Population and Dwelling Tables, and reference maps. | | | GeoSearch finds any place in Canada, shows it on a map, and gives basic Census data for that place. | | | Thematic maps present census data such as population change on a map so that geographic patterns in the data are more easily understood. |
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http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Maps/Maps_e.cfm
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