BarTalk December 2001
Volume 13, Number 6

This list is courtesy of the Legal Research Section.

$ = search cost

www.555-1212.com ($)
Multiple research tool: like White and Yellow pages (see below), but also has reverse address lookup; US criminal records/background checks; international business/people finders; phone directories.

www.bankofcanada.ca/en
Bank of Canada: unclaimed bank balances, currency converter, interest rates.

www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca
BC Archives: includes, e.g., more than 60,000 images online.

www.bconline.gov.bc.ca ($)
BC Government Registry: land titles, property assessments, BC companies, and more.

www.britannica.com
Encyclopedia Britannica: the whole collection online!

www.canada411.com
Canadian White Pages: more than 12 million listings, including postal codes.

www.cch-lis.com ($)
CT Corporation: filing preparation, document and search ordering, and online public record searching in every province, state and county.

www.city.vancouver.bc.ca
Visit the City of Vancouver Archives page.

www.journalismnet.com/canada
JournalismNet: Canadian and international media-related search tools.

www.library.ubc.ca
University of BC: try the excellent Internet Search Page!

www.sedar.com/issuers/issuers_en.htm
Company Profiles for Publicly-Traded Corporations: Canada’s electronic securities documentation filing and retrieval system.

www.statcan.ca
Statistics Canada

www.strategis.ic.gc.ca ($)
Industry Canada: has all bankruptcies and proposals filed in Canada since 1978 and all receiverships filed in Canada since 1993.

www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca
Vancouver Public Library

www.vs.gov.bc.ca
BC Government Vital Statistics: adoption information, birth certificates and registration, change of name, death certificates and registration, genealogical services, marriage certificates and licenses, wills notice registration and searches and more.

www.yellow.ca
Canadian Yellow Pages: search by company name, business classification, person’s name, phone number (reverse lookup).

This article was published in the December 2001 issue of BarTalk and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2005, all rights reserved.