Government Information - Canada Federal

DEPOSITORY SERVICES PROGRAM - GOVERNMENT OF CANADA PUBLICATIONS

• Depository Services e-publications (no longer updated) and Government of Canada Publications: public are welcome to access these resources while in the Universtiy of Manitoba Libraries. Publications are listed by titles, by subject or by corporate authors. The following represent specialized subsets of publications.
• CMHC publications
• Geological Survey Bulletin
• Geological Survey current research
• Library of Parliament: pubications include current issue reviews, backgrounders, legislative summaries, mini reviews and modular documents.
  Newer researc publications are available directly from the Library of Parliament (by subject categories)
• National Research Council Research Press Journals
• Senate Debate Indexes
• Statistics Canada publications
• Guides to government information
• Electronic Publications remote access: Much of the above can be accessed remotely by the public. Should any faculty, students and staff find that there is material that they cannot access directly, they should still be able to access these resources remotely, by authenticating, that is, entering their University of Manitoba Libraries ID and pin number.

• Google is good for indexing federal documents, just add a site qualifier, i.e. H1N1 site:gc.ca to search for H1N1 flu and limiting to the Government of Canada
• ProFile Index (1973-1978) and Microlog Index (1979-1987) index many Canadian federal documents and make them available on microfiche. The indexes are stored in the government documents microforms area, as are the publications on microfiche, in full text, covering 1973-1981.
• Canadian Research Index (formerly Microlog) indexes federal, provincial and municipal documents, 1982 to present. Links are provided to documents that are freely available.
• Early Canadiana Online / Library and Archives Canada provides access to materials that are pre-1900, including early official publications, reconstituted debates, Early Governors General of Canada, Colonial government journals, and the Sessional Papers of Canada for 1868-1900.
• Peel's Prairie Provinces (Digital Collection): includes selected federal and provincial documents dealing with the prairies.
• Government of Canada Publications catalogue
• Publications and Reports: Government of Canada
• Library and Archives Canada Amicus catalogue: includes records for selected government publications plus some links to full text.
• Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection: includes some links to the government publishing sector.
• InfoSource: information about the government, its organization and its information holdings
• Canadian federal government databases accessible through the internet (2008)
• Federal Publication Locator

• Government of Canada Homepage
• Departments and Agencies
• Advanced search
• Government of Canada A to Z Index
• WAVES the catalogue of the libraries of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• Department of Justice and Laws, Statutes and Regulations
• Canada Gazette
• Health Canada Library and catalogue
• Industry Canada includes materials formerly in the Strategis database, including the Canadian Patent Database and Trade Marks database
• Bank of Canada
• Treasury Board. Estimates
• National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (over 300 online publications)
• Water Survey of Canada. Data Products and Services

• Parliament of Canada
• Debates of the House of Commons of Canada
• Site map: includes links to Debates, Journals, Bills, Committees, Order Paper and Notice Paper, Status of House Business
• Committee Business
• Library of Parliament Research Publications
• History of the Federal Ridings since 1867
• LEGISinfo: information on legislation currently before Parliament

• Aboriginal Canada Portals
• Culture Online: Made in Canada
• SafeCanada.ca: public safety information
• Canadian Consumer Information Gateway