Atlas of Canada (Retired): The Atlas of Canada has been a work in progress for more than one hundred and nineteen years; it is the second oldest National Atlas atlas program, after the National Atlas of Finland. James White, Canada’s first Chief Geographer (1899-1909) presented the first edition of the Atlas of Canada to the Government of Canada on June 30th 1906 and the second in was released in 1916. The Atlas of Canada program was then paused between the two wars and the Great Depression. Following WWII the Atlas program was revived as it was identified that there was a lack of geographic information for the Northern Areas of Canada. The Third edition of the Atlas of Canada was started in 1950 as a folio of maps and then published in a bound volume 1957 in English and 1959 in French. The Fourth edition followed in 1974 under the new title of The National Atlas of Canada. The experience of distributing the fourth edition as a set of folio maps ,before a bound version, led to the reappraisal of national geographical information needs. Also at this time the concept of a continuing national atlas program was adopted and officially supported. In order to plan for the Fifth edition of the National Atlas (1978-1995) the Atlas team sought advice from a number of interest groups. All three committees identified the common issue of preparing for the future needs of a ‘information society and an ‘information economy’ . The National Atlas on the Internet was created in 1994 and was the first time of using the Web for interactive maps. In 1998 the Government of Canada authorized The National Atlas of Canada Online and launched the sixth edition in 2002. The name was reverted back to the Atlas of Canada 2002. The sixth edition applies rapidly evolving mapping technologies in order to present national scale geographic information.