INTERNATIONAL

CONTENTS:

• O Canada!
• Canada's National Post
• Industry Canada
• Canadian Patents Database

O CANADA!

All the gold in Canada isn't found just on the ice. When you know where to look, there are golden Web opportunities to identify prospective donors with Canadian roots, interests or operations. Canada is the closest cousin to the U.S. in more ways than geography open records and public access are two traits in the information DNA the two nations share. For example, the researchers who created U.S.-based Portico (http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/assessors.html#canada) give visitors links to online property assessments for some Canadian cities and provinces. SEDAR (http://www.sedar.com/), similar to the U.S. Securities and Exchange's EDGAR database, provides public company data. Here are a few more resources that will help you find Canadian gold.

CANADA'S NATIONAL POST

Think Forbes and Fortune don Canada's Maple Leaf and you'll be ready for the research pleasures at the National Post site. Wherever you hang your hat here, superlative lists lead researchers to new prospects and help qualify known prospects. The National Post, a year old Canadian business magazine, likes lists like the 40 Richest Canadians, last presented in its July 2001 issue.

What's my favorite section of the Web site, you ask? It's called Data Mining, "Canada's Premium Business Database," and is rich with lists, including the Canadian Technology Fast 50, the FP 500 and the Branham 300 guide to the IT industry in Canada. The databases are searchable en masse or one at a time.

And there's one more to check out: You can find the Top Canadian CEO information, like that you've come to love from American publications, under the menu's CEO Scorecard, a feature of each November's "CEO of the Year" issue.

Be sure to check out the archived November 2000 issue. Other articles in that issue cover who didn't make the list, who is getting wealthy from stock and who is under-compensated. Don't miss "Corner Office 101: Where the CEOs went to school," also in the November 2000 issue.

http://www.nationalpostbusiness.com/datamining/datamining.asp

INDUSTRY CANADA

Industry Canada's Web site is a good launch point for your research. The Company Directories page offers visitors links to the database of federally incorporated companies, both the Canadian and the U.S. Importers databases and more. When you select the Company Directories page, don't go away disappointed too quickly. Look for the hotlink to Other Canadian Company Databases on the right-side menu. There you'll link to Canada411 and Yellowpages.ca, as well as the Nova Scotia and British Columbia Manufacturers Directories and to Scott's Directory, a commercial company profile and executive contacts provider with subscriber or pay-as-you-go options.

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_coinf/engdoc/homepage.html

CANADIAN PATENTS DATABASE

Do you think we'll ever tell our grandchildren, "When I was your age, I could only search 1.4 million patent documents from a single country at a time?" Search 75 years of Canadian patents at this site. Several search options, including by a person's name, are available and there is strong search help at the site. There are links to the Canadian Trademarks database and to foreign patent databases from this page, too.

http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html

Cecilia Hogan