| Where
to
go for general boating safety information:
Contact the Boating Safety
Infoline
at 1-800-267-6687
Where
to
find the closest Canadian Coast Guard accredited basic boating safety
course
provider:
Visit the Office of
Boating Safety
web site for a course provider directory @ www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca
or call the Boating Safety
Infoline
at 1-800-267-6687
Where
to
find the closest regional Canadian Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety:
British Columbia, Yukon
Territory
Office of Boating Safety
Pacific
Region
25 Huron Street
Victoria, British Columbia
V8V4V9
Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba,
Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
Office of Boating Safety
Central and Arctic Region
201 N. Front Street, Suite 703
Sarnia, Ontario N7T8B1
Quebec
Office of Boating Safety
Laurentian
Region
101 Boulevard Champlain, 2nd
floor
Quebec, Quebec G1K7Y7
New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia,Prince
Edward Island
Office of Boating Safety
Maritimes
Region
Foot of Parker Street, P.O.
Box 1000
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y3Z8
Newfoundland
Office of Boating Safety
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries
Centre
(NAFC)
East White Hills Road
P.O. Box 5667
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1C5X1
Where
to
obtain Compliance Plates:
Office of Boating Safety,
Headquarters
Canadian Coast Guard
200 Kent Street, 5th floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1AOE6
(613)991-3128
(800)267-6687
Where
to
obtain nautical charts, tide and current tables, Sailing Directions,
The
Canadian Aids to Navigation System, Radio Aids to Marine Navigation,
and
List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals:
Canadian Hydrographic Service
Chart Distribution Office
Ottawa, Ontario
Tel.: (613) 998-4931
Web site: http://www.chs-shc.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Canadian Hydrographic
Service
Chart Distribution Office
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney, British Columbia
Tel.: (250) 363-6358
Web site: http://www.ios.bc.ca/charts
Under an exclusive
agreement with
Nautical Data International Inc official digital raster charts from the
Canadian Hydrographic Service are now available. These charts are an
electronic
picture of the paper version that includes every detail of the official
paper charts. To
obtain more information about
official
electronic charts, contact
Nautical Data
International Inc. (NDI)
(St John's, Newfoundland)
Tel.: (709) 576-0634
Web site: http://www.ndi.nf.ca/
Where
to
obtain application forms for licensing vessels:
Addresses and telephone
numbers of
Revenue Canada can be found in your local telephone directory.
Where
to
find information on marine weather forecasts:
Weather forecasts can be
obtained
from the following sources:
• channels 21B,25B and 83B
on the
Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes;
• channels 21B and Wxl, 2,3
on the
Pacific Coast;
• in Vancouver, Toronto,
Montreal
and Halifax, VHF broadcasts from Weatheradio Canada (Environment
Canada);
• via the internet @ http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/canada_e.html
• regular AM and FM radio
channel
forecasts;
• television weather channels
and
telephone services, where they exist.
Published by:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Coast Guard
Ottawa, Ontario
K1AOE6
DFO/5619
Revised March 1999
© Minister of Public
Works and
Government Services Canada
1999
Cat.No.T31-31/1999E
ISBN 0-662-83399-6
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