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Letter from Canada
Canadian Law-Related Web Sites
by Susan A. Hebditch – Canada Department of Justice, Edmonton, Alberta

I have toyed for some time now with the idea of writing a column on Canadian, law-related Web sites for Legal Division members.

Though I hesitate to say that the following is the "be all, end all" site – for this month anyway – the following Governments on the WWW: Canada at http://www.gksoft. com/govt/en/ca.html is one of the most comprehensive meta sites offering access to Canadian government information. At this site, you will find links to all Canadian federal government institutions, all Provincial and territorial sites, Courts, Representatives in Foreign Countries and Canadian Political Parties.

For those feeling a little uncertain about the process of researching Canadian legal information there are two excellent articles published on LLRX.com (http://www.llrx.com/ library/) that will provide you with an overview of the Canadian legal system.

As a first step, Ted Tjaden's Doing Legal Research in Canada (August 2000) at http://www.llrx.com/features/ca.htm is a very comprehensive article.

In Overview of Sources of Canadian Law on the Web, Louise Tsang (April 2000) at: http://www.llrx.com/features/canadian.htm offers a different, yet highly useful approach to researching Canadian legal materials. Ms. Tsang lists and annotates Web-based sources of Canadian law. Her article includes statutes, and other legislative materials, case law, and government documents.

From the University of Montreal and billed as the "largest and ever expanding collection of links related to Canadian law" the Virtual Canadian Law Library is available at http://www. droit.umontreal.ca/Biblio/index_en.html It is a comprehensive, fully searchable site available in both French and English.

For a site dealing with political science, consider Canadian Politics on the Web at http://polisci.nelson.com. It will link you to government and politics on the Web, politics in the news, documents, legislative information and information on the Canadian legal system.

Lastly, even though you will run into these two sites everywhere, I would not be a good Canadian law librarian without telling you exactly where to find them. The Statutes of Canada can be found at: http://canada.justice.gc.ca/ftp/en/laws/index.html and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada are at: http://www.lexum. umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/index.html.

Suzan is the immediate Past President of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Association Canadienne des bibliotheques de droit. She welcomes you to contact her at suzan.hebditch@justice.gc.ca

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