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    :  28 Apr 1995 11:05:07 -0700
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       :  GOVERNMENT: Canadian Embassy, Washington Web Site
      :  [log in to unmask] (Canniff and Company):
 
Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. now on the Internet's World Wide Web
 
(Washington)  Millions of Internet users in North America and around the
world can now obtain current information on Canada and the services of the
Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. through a newly-launched World Wide
Web site.  This marks the first presence on the Internet by a Canadian embassy
 
     Combining text with photos and colour graphics, the site offers a wide
 
variety of information, including:
 
     -    Canadian-American relations;
     -    embassy services supporting trade and investment opportunities,
          as well as liaison with international financial institutions;
     -    business and individual tourism to Canada and embassy services
          supporting tourism promotion in the United States; as well as
     -    cultural and academic affairs.
 
     Interactivity with the public is achieved through such features as the
ability to send electronic mail to embassy officials directly from a user's
World Wide Web browser program.  There are links from the site to other
resources on the Internet like Industry Canada's Open Government Pilot
Project and the World Bank's World Wide Web site.  The coming months
will see new features such as digital movies and audio files being
offered, as well as continually updated documents and expanding Internet
links.
 
     The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the site is:
 
                    <URL:http://www.nstn.ca/wshdc>
 
     The site can be explored with any of the common World Wide Web browser
programs, including Mosaic, Netscape Navigator and even the text-based
system, Lynx. The best results will come from using the Netscape
software, which employs advanced features of Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML), the basis of the World Wide Web.
 
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