National Library News July 1998 Vol. 30, nos. 7-8

Links Abroad

Canada House, the headquarters of the Canadian High Commission in London, U.K., has maderequested an electronic link from its Web site, "Virtual Canada House", to the National Library of Canada’s Web site, "Canadian Prime Ministers: 1867-19986", which incorporates and augments the contents of two previous Web sites ("Canada Speaks" and an earlier version of "Canadian Prime Ministers: 1867-1996"), both of which were joint projects of the National Library of Canada and the Library of Parliament, and which were funded by Industry Canada’s SchoolNetSchoolNet Digital Collections programme jects carried by Industry Canadain 1996. in cooperation with the National Library of Canada and the Library of Parliament).

The "Virtual Canada House" site was developed to coincide with the official re-opening of Canada House by the Queen and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, which took place on May 13. The site was developed by the Faculty of Information Studies and the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto, which were contracted by Bell Canada, one of the corporate sponsors for the re-opening of Canada House. "Virtual Canada House" is part of a "showcase of Canadian technologies" that can be accessed by visitors to Canada House in London.

"Canadian Prime Ministers: 1867-19986" includes speeches, some of which date back to the early post-Confederation period, that are an excellent resource for students of Canadian public policy, biography, history and society. To find out more, go to the SchoolNet Web site (http://www.schoolnet.ca/collections/) or to the National Library’s Web site (http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/digiproj/edigiact.htm). To check out the "Virtual Canada House", go to http://www.bell-virtualcanada.com.