It might be Wanderlust, though that usually strikes me early in the Spring, but in my virtual travelling I stumbled upon a pair of nice Canadian government lists of our embassies and consulates abroad.
The Department of Foreign AffairsThe acronym for the full Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade is DFAIT, which to an English speaker might suggest “defeat,” an unhappy idea. Embassies and Consulates site lists those that have websites of their own. It seems that at a minimum, each site contains some information about the country concerned and a blurb on Canada’s relations with that country. Other sites are much more elaborate. The Canadian embassy in Mexico, for example, makes available detailed information on the location of consulates, their hours, etc.; information on Mexico, including news sources in Spanish; a fair bit of material on diplomatic relations between Canada and Mexico, including links to treaties; and more.
The full panoply of our embassies and consulates is available at Foreign Affairs’ Canada’s Representation Abroad, where you can either search by name for the post you need, or proceed geographically to area lists. You can also search by last name for personnel abroad.
Hardly authoratative research sites, these diplomatic websites might nonetheless be useful from time to time, and should find a place in everyone’s long list of reference bookmarks.
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