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Natural Resources Canada

Canadian government department responsible for natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests, earth sciences, mapping and remote sensing
Organization canadian_federal_department Q349770

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
Canadian federal department, national mapping agency[5]
Field of work
natural resource[1]
Inception
1995[8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1995 BnF data 1993 edition 2026-10-01 · fr-lo ↗
Headquarters location
Gatineau[6]
Country
Canada[4]
Official website
www.nrcan.gc.ca[10]
Short name
RNCan, NRCan[12][13]
Applies to jurisdiction
Canada[11]
Child organization or unit
Canadian Forest Service[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Ottawa[3]
Member of
ORCID, Inc.[2]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[16]
Owner of
Toporama[14]
Parent organization or unit
Government of Canada[9]as of 2026-10-21
where from?
Edition
20261021 · as of 2026-10-21
Bronze
7a7bf58d5ac18436… v2.15-2026-10-20-ror-data.zip
Transform
4ort-mint · ror:20261021 · version not recorded
Position held by head of the organization
Minister of Natural Resources[15]
Social media followers
+35663[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Department of Natural Resources en Natural Resources Canada en NRCan en-gb Department of Natural Resources en-gb NRCan fr ministère des Ressources naturelles fr Ressources naturelles Canada fr RNCan it Ministère des Ressources naturelles ja カナダ天然資源省 ja 天然資源省 pt Ministério dos Recursos Naturais do Canadá ru Министерство природных ресурсов Канады zh 加拿大自然資源部
🔖 Identifiers · 33
ROR ID
05hepy730
ISNI
122.2M (122.2M–404.5M, n=3)
VIAF cluster ID
147668785
Library of Congress authority ID
no94019701
GND ID
5102910-8
OpenAlex ID
I1281735042
GRID ID
grid.202033.0
BAnQ authority ID
0000320374
BHL creator ID
302945
BIBSYS ID
4024397
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12475119g
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
department-of-natural-resources
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Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf10337850
Facebook username
EnvironmentandNaturalResourcesinCanada, EnvironnementetressourcesnaturellesauCanada
Freebase ID
/m/02xk42
GitHub account
NRCan
HAL structure ID
305923
IdRef ID
033945713
KISTI ID
K000341098
LinkedIn company or organization ID
natural-resources-canada
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
1281735042
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007604011505171
OSM Name Suggestion Index ID
ressourcesnaturellescanada-9cab83, naturalresourcescanada-dbb4a6
Open Funder Registry funder ID
501100000159
Open Library ID
OL66665A
Quora topic ID
Natural-Resources-Canada
Ringgold ID
6314
Scilit organization ID
2093
Topic's main category
Category:Natural Resources Canada
Wellcome Collection concept ID
u9mgv527
X (Twitter) username
NRCan, RNCan
Yale LUX ID
group/34f4a6c1-4329-4a30-9867-ab85209a0ddc
YouTube channel ID
UCv4UAWT20Z4u_cF8CEk2S_A, UCuClE8gpea2yI4juzlS4ZJQ

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🔗 Connections
← Affiliated with 196
A. A. Eajal, Abdelrahman Ayad, Ahmad Abo El Ezz, Ahmad Mohsenimanesh, Ahmed S. A. Awad, Aining Zhang, Alain Nguyen, Alexandre Prieur +188 more
← Parent organization or unit 2
Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Forest Service
← Publisher 2
Canada Flight Supplement, Canadian Geographical Names Database
Applies to jurisdiction 1
Canada
Child organization or unit 1
Canadian Forest Service
Country 1
Canada
Employees / affiliates 1
Lawrence Lambe
Field of work 1
natural resource
Headquarters location 1
Gatineau
Instance of 1
national mapping agency
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Ottawa
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
Owned entities 1
Toporama
Owner of 1
Toporama
Subtypes 1
Office of Energy Research and Development
← Described by source 1
Haughton impact crater
← FactGrid item ID 1
Lezama
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Direct Wikidata claims

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  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [9] ↑ . ror.org. Retrieved . ror.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · GregMcCollum · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 5102910-8
    Canadiana Name Authority ID → ncf10337850
    IdRef ID → 033945713
    BIBSYS ID → 4024397
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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  2. 26w ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
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    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Ottawa
    Inception → —
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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