US Data Rescue 2025

The mission of the CGI DPN is to preserve digital collections of government information. Digital preservation, for purposes of this initiative, means ensuring the long-term viability of digital materials through geographically dispersed servers, protective measures against data loss, and forward format migration. Digital materials produced by government agencies that are at risk of being lost are preserved as part of the program.

Internet Archive Canada, with advice and assistance from government and university librarians across Canada, have digitized more than 70,000 Canadian Government publications (govdocs) and made them freely available online. This page is meant to serve as a portal for discovering publications digitized by Internet Archive Canada, to be a reference for future digitization initiatives and provide incentive to grow the list of titles that have been preserved and dedicated to the public domain.

The Abacus Data Network is a data repository collaboration involving Libraries at Simon Fraser University (SFU), the University of British Columbia (UBC), the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) and the University of Victoria (UVic).

Access data files include copies of Statistics Canada's Public Use Microdata Files (PUMFs), GIS and geospatial data, Postal Code Conversion Files (PCCF) and more. Abacus is supported by the British Columbia Research Libraries' Data Services.

If you see, save it! To capture a webpage, select "WEB" on the top bar at https://archive.org/ then insert a URL under 'Save Page Now'. Search for page using the Wayback Machine search bar. Select a date on the results calendar by hovering over the blue circles.