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A multi-purpose, colourful, statistical portrait of Canada. One of our readers described Canada Year Book 1999 like this: "This book is a marvelous accomplishment. It reads extraordinarily well. Throughout there is creative thinking, providing interesting and appropriate background on Canada... There is thoughtful concern to inform us in a reliable, clear, approachable way about what Canada is like, with the information presented theme after theme in rapidly moving explanatory syntheses."

A book reviewer said:

"For years, this reference book has found its place in all libraries, because it's considere d a classic that reflects all aspects of Canadian society. CYB's new presentation now justifies its place in our own personal library."

Canada Year Book 1999, the indispensable multi-purpose reference classic, richly displays and analyzes the complexities of living and working in Canada today. Diligently researched, handsomely laid out and colourful, it is also a statistical portrait of Canada at the dawn of the new millennium.

For book lovers, CYB99 is a pleasure to open at any of its readably informal pages. It's not a dry-as-dust tome to be left on the shelf, but a lively, attractive, and intelligent look at Canada today. Easy-to-read, intriguing, informative, and often surprising, it's the kind of book you consult for one piece of information and come away with 10! It's that hard to put down, even after you've found what you're looking for.

And Canada Year Book 1999 is a beautifully crafted book with a bright red cover under its full colour dust jacket. At 560 pages, it includes 15 chapters, 126 photos, 254 tables, 40 charts and graphs, 4 maps, a 16-page index, 4 appendices and more than 50 feature articles and sidebars. It's one of those books that you MUST have in your library.

With hundreds of clear and informative tables and graphs, along with exceptional photographs and incisive writing on everything from Abegweit (the Mi'Kmaq word for Prince Edward Island) to zinc, Canada Year Book 1999 quickly helps you find what you are looking for. As a single-volume reference tool, it is unsurpassed.

In publication since 1867, the Canada Year Book is now one of the oldest ongoing publications in Canada in a league with the English Who's Who (1848), the American Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( 1882), The Canadian Parliamentary Guide (1862) and the present form of Canada's Hansard (1880). It remains our unique and unimpeachable source of accurate and precise statistics, along with timely and intriguing analysis. And because it comes from the information experts at Statistics Canada, its accuracy is assured.

Whatever you're looking for, you can be sure to find it in Canada Year Book 1999. Find out about Canadian wildlife, industry, law, finance, patterns of immigration, the health of Canadian children, imports and exports, crime rates, oil reserves, film attendance, life expectancies, families, languages, sports, religion and much, much, much more!

With information this accessible, for work, home or school, Canada Year Book 1999 is a sure bet to engage, enlighten, educate and enthrall you. And it makes a great gift as well! Order yours right away!