Canadian Who's Who 1997 is on the World Wide Web.

The standard biographical reference of Canadian biography, Canadian Who's Who sets a new standard in its electronic editions. While the book has always provided authoritative access to concise, comprehensive biographies of prominent Canadians, researchers and browsers know that it has been most useful for looking up specific names. Without a name, much of the most fascinating biographical information was inaccessible. The electronic editions allow indexed access to CWW, making all the information available at last.

Search the biographies of more than 15,000 prominent Canadians by Name, Birthdate, City, or Full Text. Preview the powerful searching capabilities of the new CD-ROM edition. Or find out who's birthday is today. The CD-ROM and WWW editions are fully browseable.

CWW on the Web differs from the CD-ROM edition in a number of ways:

• Display: the WWW display is HTML-based, while the CD-ROM version uses its own viewer.
• Limits: searches on the WWW version are limited to 10 matches; there are no limits on the CD-ROM version.
• Abridgements: addresses have (usually) been deleted from the Web version. The CD-ROM contains full address information, as verified by the biographees.
• Searching: WWW searches are very simple, key field searches, which cannot be combined. The CD-ROM offers powerful, complex searching: logical searches can be constructed, searches can be combined, and queries can be saved and edited.
• Features: in addition to much faster and more powerful (and unlimited) searching, the CD-ROM edition allows easy creation of custom lists of biographies, and can export lists and biographies to a variety of formats.
• Speed: while the CD-ROM is very fast, the speed of CWW on the Web is limited by the speed of the connection, by the demands made on the web server, and by the on-the-fly conversion to HTML.
• Price: CWW on the Web is free; Canadian Who's Who 1997 on CD-ROM is $195.00 (Canadian, including a copy of the book).

While Canadian Who's Who on CD-ROM is faster, more powerful, and more convenient, we hope that you will find this online sample of Canadian biography useful and enjoyable.