Government (Canada + US) Links

Live pictures of highway 401 from the MTO's COMPASS camera system

Some Indian-derived Names:

• In the language of the Iroquois, "Ontario" means sparkling or beautiful water
   
• "Toronto" (the capital of Ontario) means "place of meeting (of two rivers)" in the language of the Huron Indians, who first met a White Man in the shape of a Frenchman, Etienne Br�l�, in 1615; Br�l� was also the first White Man the Huron Indians killed and ate, a fate that overtook him when he raped one Indian maiden too many. The meeting-place was, of course, not between White Men and Indians, but between the river and the Lake. But the site was important enough for the French to build a trading post called Fort Rouille. This was in 1749, more than a century after the death of Etienne Br�l�.
   
• "Ottawa" (the capital of Canada) was named after the Ottawa Indians who lived in the nearby valley
   
• "Quebec" (pronounced K-beck) is the Algonquin word meaning "where the river narrows".
   
• The name "Canada" derives from the Huron-Iroquois word Kanata, which mean village or settlement. The term was used to describe Stadacona (the current site of Quebec city) by two Amerindians who accompanied Jacques Cartier on his 1535 return voyage from France
   
• "Niagara" is the Iroquois word for "thunder of waters"
   
• "Manhattan" is the Algonquin name for "island of many hills"

Canada (Federal)

• Canada Official web site of the federal government of Canada.
• CBC Radio
• Canada Revenue Agency for income tax information
  • http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/individuals/topics/income-tax/refunds/status-e.html (for tax refund status)
• Canada Post (English)
• Canadiana Quick Reference at the National Library of Canada
• Elections Canada riding maps, past voting results (including rejected ballots), etc.

Federal Politics

• Conservative Party of Canada
• Liberal Party of Canada
• NDP

Canadian Think Tanks

• C.D. Howe Institute
• Caledon Institute
• Fraser Institute
• The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Miscellaneous

• Federal Publications Inc.

Canada (My Provincial)

• Official web site of the province of Ontario
• Ontario's proposed (and now rejected) proposal of "proportional representation" called MMP
• Ontario Liberal Party
• Ontario PC
  • Book: “If You Build It...”  charts the history of Ontario’s Highway 407, the world’s most technologically advanced toll highway, from its development as a toll road in the early 1990s, through construction and operation by a crown corporation, to its subsequent privatization in 1999 by means of a 99-year lease and its performance thereafter. (The Harris PC's really screwed up on this one)
• Ontario NDP
• Ontario Green Party
• Official web site of the province of Quebec

Canada (My Regional)

• Regional Government of Waterloo is yet another unnecessary layer of government
  • Plastic Materials Code System for waste recycling

Canada (My Municipal)

• Official City of Kitchener web site. This city used to be called Berlin but changed its name to Kitchener (during a British military occupation) during World War I
• Official City of Waterloo web site
• Official City of Cambridge web site
• Click here to visit the official Kitchener (and region) promotional site. This site includes maps and lots of other links.
• More links at cool community

USA

• US Census
• The White House
• The Library Of Congress
• Congressional Observer Publications lots of documentation including "the voting record of every senator and representative" in the US Congress. We need a site like this in Canada

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Neil Rieck
Kitchener - Waterloo - Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.