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recently received funding of Vancouver. To register by fax call 617-449- you a fate settlement oc trial ward.

$107,500 via the Canada/B.C. The latest from computer hard-
Agreement on Communi-

cations and Cultural Indus-

tries

The Neil Squire Foundation is'4
non-profit, society: which works
toward. iinproving the indepen-
dence of severely physically cbal-
lenged adults.

The inoney will support the
design of a twebnology transter
model to enable the foundation to
commercialize its technologies
and products.

As oan example. the financial
support will help the foundation
implement a strategy to commer-
ctalize its Jouse technology. a sip
and puff mouth- operated computer
mouse for the physically disabled.

Suid MEA ‘font Perry, on behalt!
of B.C.) Employment and
lnvestrient Minister Glen Clark.
“His through partnerships such as
this that we are able to develop
technologies and products which
improve. the quality of life for the
severely physically challenged. not
oly in- British Columbia but in all
parts of Canada and the worid.

“At the same time, we can assist
local industry and add to the
knowledge-base econumy of -
British. Columbia through the
implementation ‘of 1 technology
Aransfer model to commer reialize
these much needed technologies

and products.”

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images and articles

The. bilingual resource includes
2.400. archival photographs and -
photos of paintings. drawings,
maps and charts.

“The CD-ROM allows the user
to create files combining graphies
and text.

Canada's Visual History is dis-
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Whiteside and is a co-production
of the National Film: Board: of:
Canada, the Canadian Heritage
Information Network (CHIN) and

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Civilization.

The database ts designed for
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level to university.

A PC. Windows version is avail-
able now, A Macintosh version is

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