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| x Canadian Red Cross | Humanitarian aid |
The Canadian Red Cross Society is a Canadian humanitarian charitable organization and one of 186 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.
It was established in the fall of 1896 as an affiliate of the British Red Cross Society (then known as...
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| x Canadian Council of Chief Executives |
The Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) is an organization in Canada of chief executive officers of roughly 150 major Canadian corporations. The organization was founded in 1976 as the Business Council on National Issues, but renamed itself...
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| x Conference Board of Canada |
The Conference Board of Canada is a not-for-profit Canadian organization dedicated to researching and analyzing economic trends, as well as organizational performance and public policy issues.
Describing itself as objective and non-partisan, The...
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| x Royal Society of Canada |
The Royal Society of Canada (Société royale du Canada), may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (SRC : Les académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada), is the...
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| x Rideau Canoe Club | Canoeing |
The Rideau Canoe Club (RCC) is a canoe club located on the Rideau River in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The club is located at Mooney's Bay, where the Rideau Canal splits away from the river prior to joining up with the Ottawa River.
The emphasis at RCC...
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| x Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences |
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS), known as the Federation, is a member based organization and the voice for the humanities and social science researchers in Canada. It is a non-profit charitable organization...
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| x Statistical Society of Canada |
The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) (French: Société statistique du Canada) is a professional organization whose mission it is to promote the use and development of statistics and probability.
Its objectives are
Each year the SSC awards the CRM...
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| x Egale Canada |
Egale Canada (formerly Equality for Gays And Lesbians Everywhere) is an advocacy organization founded in 1986 to advance equality for Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and their families, across Canada.
The organization's...
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| x Canadian Heraldic Authority |
The Canadian Heraldic Authority (French: L'Autorité héraldique du Canada) is part of the Canadian honours system under the Queen of Canada, whose authority is exercised by the Governor General. The Authority is responsible for the creation and...
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| x Medical Council of Canada |
Medical Council of Canada (MCC) (French: Le Conseil médical du Canada) is an organization that is charged with assessing medical candidates, evaluation of physicians through exams and granting a qualification called Licentiate of the Medical Council...
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| x National Council of Women of Canada |
The National Council of Women of Canada (NWCW, French: Conseil national des femmes du Canada, (CNFC)) is a Canadian advocacy organization based in Ottawa aimed at improving conditions for women, families, and communities. A federation of nationally...
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| x Canadian Curling Association |
The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) is a Canadian organization responsible for encouraging and facilitating growth and development of the sport of curling. The CCA is associated with more than a dozen provincial and territorial curling...
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| x Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada |
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), French: Collège royal des médecins et chirurgiens du Canada, is a national, private, nonprofit organization established in 1929 by a special Act of Parliament to oversee the medical...
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| x Assembly of First Nations |
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN), formerly known as the National Indian Brotherhood, is a body of First Nations leaders in Canada. The aims of the organization are to protect the rights, treaty obligations, ceremonies, and claims of citizens of...
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| x Canadian Medical Association |
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA), with more than 70,000 members, is the largest association of doctors in Canada and works to represent their interests nationally. It formed in 1867, three months after Confederation. The CMA is a Canadian...
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| x Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada |
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The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) is an organisation that represents Canada's colleges and universities.
Formed in 1911, it represents 95 public and private not-for-profit Canadian Universities and University Colleges in...
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| x Federated Women's Institutes of Canada |
The Federated Women's Institutes of Canada is an umbrella organization for Women's Institutes in Canada.
"The idea to form a national group was first considered in 1912. In 1914, however, when the war began the idea was abandoned. At the war's end,...
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| x Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario |
The Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario (ATIO) (or, in French, Association des traducteurs et interprètes de l'Ontario) is a professional order representing translators, terminologists and interpreters in Ontario. As a...
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| x Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters Council |
The Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters Council (CTTIC) (or, in French, the Conseil des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes du Canada) is a federation of provincial and territorial associations representing translators,...
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| x Canadian Jewish Congress |
The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) was, for more than 90 years, one of the main lobby groups for the Jewish community in Canada. At its dissolution, the president of the CJC was Mark Freiman. Its past co-presidents were Sylvain Abitbol and Rabbi Dr....
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| x Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami |
The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐱᕇᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ) is a nonprofit organization in Canada that represents over 50,400 Inuit. It was founded in 1971 by Tagak Curley (b 1944) as the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (or in English, Inuit Brotherhood). It grew out...
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| x Children's Aid Society |
The Children's Aid Societies (CAS) of Ontario, Canada, are independent organizations empowered by the Ontario government to perform child protection services. The declared goal is to "promote the best interests, protection and well being of children...
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| x Canadian Historical Association |
The Canadian Historical Association (CHA) (French Société historique du Canada (SHC)) is a Canadian organization founded in 1922 for the purposes of promoting historical research and scholarship. Marius Barbeau, the anthropologist, was its founding...
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| x Royal Heraldry Society of Canada |
The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada is a Canadian organization that promotes the art of Canadian Heraldry. Founded as the Heraldry Society of Canada, the mission of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada and its branches is to promote the art of...
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| x Canada Safety Council |
The Canada Safety Council is a national, non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to safety. They work to prevent deaths and injuries by promoting education and awareness across Canada.
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| x College of Family Physicians Canada |
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is a professional association and the legal certifying body for family medicine in Canada. This national organization of family physicians was founded in 1954 and currently numbers over 25,000...
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| x Congress of Aboriginal Peoples |
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) founded in 1971 as the Native Council of Canada, is a Canadian aboriginal organization, that represents Aboriginal Peoples (First Nations and Métis) who live off Indian reserves, either in urban and rural areas...
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| x Royal Canadian Numismatic Association |
The Royal Canadian Numismatic Association was founded in 1950. It is a nonprofit association for coin collectors and other people interested in Canadian numismatics. It has members throughout Canada and in other countries. It is affiliated with the...
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| x Association of Municipalities of Ontario |
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) is a non-profit organization representing municipal and regional governments in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created on June 22, 1972 through a merger of the Ontario Municipal...
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| x Native Women's Association of Canada |
The Native Women's Association of Canada, or NWAC, is one of Canada's National Aboriginal Organizations, and represents Aboriginal women, particularly First Nations and Métis women. Inuit women are represented by the separate organization,...
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| x Pauktuutit |
Pauktuutit is an organization in Canada that represents Inuit women. It was officially started in 1984 and is headquartered in Ottawa for easier access to the Parliament of Canada. Every Canadian Inuit woman is considered to be a member of...
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| x St. John Ambulance Canada |
St. John Ambulance Canada, or SJAC (French: Ambulance Saint-Jean Canada (ASJC)) is the Canadian chapter of St. John Ambulance (SJA), a worldwide non-profit first aid training organization. The mission of St. John Ambulance Canada is to enable...
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| x Canada-Israel Committee |
The Canada-Israel Committee (CIC) was the official representative of the organized Canadian Jewish community on matters pertaining to Canada-Israel relations.
The Canada-Israel Committee maintained offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and...
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| x Royal Architectural Institute of Canada |
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), founded in 1907, is a Canadian association representing over 3,600 architects, and faculty and graduates of Canadian Schools of Architecture.
RAIC is the voice for architecture and its practice in...
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| x Canadian Museums Association |
The Canadian Museums Association is a national organization for the promotion of museums in Canada.
The Canadian Museums Association (CMA) is the national organization for the advancement of the Canadian museum sector, representing Canadian museum...
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| x Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee |
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The Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (also known as CJPAC), is a Canadian political organization.
The Executive Director of CJPAC is Mark Waldman, who has been active with the organization since its establishment.
Josh Cooper served as...
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| x Canadian Linguistic Association |
The Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA; alternatively called the Association canadienne de linguistique, ACL) is the principal professional organization of linguists in Canada. Yearly meetings are held, usually at the end of May, in which members...
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| x Canadian Canoe Association | Canoeing |
CanoeKayak Canada is the governing body of competitive canoeing and kayaking disciplines in Canada. The three specific disciplines represented are flatwater, whitewater and marathon. CanoeKayak Canada officially replaced the name "Canadian Canoe...
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| x Society for Digital Humanities |
The Society for Digital Humanities is a Canadian scholarly association. Its full name is SDH/SEMI or Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs. The SDH/SEMI was formerly known as COCH/COSH or Consortium for Computers...
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| x Association of Canadian Community Colleges |
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) is a national association formed in 1972 to represent the interests of its member institutions to government and industry. Membership is voluntary and open to publicly-funded community colleges...
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| x Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada |
The Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada (ANAC) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization. It is an affiliate group of the Canadian Nurses Association. The ANAC is the only professional nursing organization for aboriginal peoples of Canada.
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| x Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada |
The Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) is a learned society devoted to the examination of the role of the built environment in Canadian society. Its membership includes structural and landscape architects, architectural...
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| x Canadian Paper Money Society |
The Canadian Paper Money Society (CPMS) is a non-profit numismatic organization for collectors of Canadian paper money, including government and private bank issues, municipal scrip, stocks, bonds, and other forms of payment. It has members...
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| x Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians |
The Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians (OCSM) is a bilingual conference of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) of the United States and Canada. OCSM represents Canada's professional symphony musicians of which there are twenty member...
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| x Peacebuild |
Peacebuild, the Canadian Peacebuilding Network, is a non-governmental, not for profit organization aimed at promoting and further developing a vibrant and robust Canadian peacebuilding constituency to advance just and lasting peace internationally....
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| x Canadian Federation of University Women |
The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) was founded in 1919 It is a non-profit, voluntary self-funded bilingual organization of women university graduates , with almost 10,000 members. Members belong to 118 Clubs throughout Canada. CFUW...
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| x Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric |
The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR) is a bilingual scholarly society based in Canada that is open to scholars involved in the teaching or researching of rhetoric. While the CSSR was originally founded as a Canadian version of the...
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| x Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures |
The Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL) is a learned society that supports research about Canadian and Québec literatures. Every year, the ACQL holds a conference with other scholarly groups during the Congress of the Canadian...
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| x Canadian Federation of Agriculture | Agriculture |
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) is Canada's largest general farm organization, representing 200,000 farmers and farm families. The organization is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, with the mandate to provide a unified industry voice at...
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| x Humanist Canada |
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Humanist Canada (also known as the Humanist Association of Canada, or HAC) is a national not-for-profit charitable organization promoting the separation of religion from public policy and fostering the development of reason, compassion and critical...
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| x Information and Communications Technology Council | Information technology |
The Information and Communications Technology Council is one of 31 sector councils funded in part by the Government of Canada's Sector Council Program. It was founded in 1992 as the Software Human Resources Council (SHRC). The organization adopted...
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| x Canadian Council on Africa |
The Canadian Council on Africa (CCAfrica) was created on May 27, 2002 and is currently located in Ottawa, Ontario, with the goal of becoming Canada's leading organization committed to the economic development of a modern competitive Africa. CCAfrica...
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| x Transfair Canada |
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Fairtrade Canada, formerly TransFair Canada, is a national non-profit certification and public education organization promoting Fairtrade certified products in Canada to improve the livelihood of developing world farmers and workers. It is the...
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| x NAV CANADA |
Nav Canada is a privately run, not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates Canada's civil air navigation system (ANS).
The company employs approximately 2,000 air traffic controllers (ATCs), 800 flight service specialists (FSSs) and 700...
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| x Ten Broadcasting |
Ten Broadcasting Inc. (also referred to as X Broadcasting) is a privately held Canadian broadcasting and production company based in Ottawa, Ontario. It is the largest adult broadcast company in Canada and currently operates 3 adult entertainment...
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| x Zip.ca |
Zip.ca is an online DVD rental company operating in Canada. It has a database of over 82,000 unique titles.
Zip.ca is a member of the privately held Momentous group of companies, and was owner of the Ottawa Rapidz baseball team until its first...
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| x Freimans |
A.J. Freiman Limited, or Freimans (FREE-mənz), was a landmark department store on Rideau Street in Ottawa, Canada, founded in 1918 by Archibald J. Freiman.
Archibald Jacob Freiman was born in Lithuania in 1880, and emigrated to Hamilton, Ontario....
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| x Ottawa Car Company |
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Ottawa Car Company was a builder of streetcars for the Canadian market and was founded in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1891. The plant was located at Kent and Slater Streets, a short distance from Parliament Hill. The company was a subsidiary of Ottawa...
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| x Atkinson Film-Arts |
Atkinson Film-Arts was an animation studio based in Ottawa, Ontario, The company is best known for the first two Care Bears television specials, The Land Without Feelings and The Freeze Machine, and the four syndicated specials that inspired The...
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| x Giant Tiger |
Giant Tiger Stores Limited is Canada’s third-largest chain of discount stores (after Walmart and Zellers). Following the 2006 acquisition of Zellers and its parent, the Hudson's Bay Company, by American entrepreneur Jerry Zucker, Giant Tiger became...
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