Canada

Last Updated: October 29th, 2011

Below you will find links to a collegiate-based astronomy map of Canada. On the map, when you move your cursor over a symbol, information about that institution will pop up. If you click on the symbol, then a new browser tab or window will appear with the webpage of the featured department.

Posted on the map are 30 departments in Canadian universities and colleges which teach and/or perform research in astronomy. 17 of these departments have "astro" in their titles, and these institutions are marked with red dots. The other 13 are marked with purple squares. If you are aware of departments that I missed, please let me know (dimitri [dot] veras [at] colorado [dot] edu).

All symbols provide 1) the title of the university or college, 2) the name of the department, 3) the city in which the department resides, 4) an estimate of the population of that city, and 5) in parenthesis, the province containing that city. None of these departments reside in the Canadian territories. Unfortunately, accents are not yet included in the simple plain text that is used on the maps. The underlying geographical map was taken from Wikimedia Commons, and was authored by STyx. A few symbols are offset from their true locations in the interest of clarity.

In order to view the map correctly, use a laptop or desktop with the latest version (as of August 1st, 2011) of Firefox, Chrome or Safari. This is likely to work. Other platform/browser combinations are unlikely to work.

I hope this map is useful!
-Dimitri

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