Agricultural Processing and Marketing Agreement (APMA) Program
Description: Includes general information and records related to approved projects under the Agricultural Processing and Marketing Agreement (APMA) Program in Alberta.
Document Types: General, project proposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents, reports.
Access:By project name.
Record Number: WED 5610

Canadian Foundation for Innovation Support Program (CFI-SP)
Description: Includes general information and records related to approved projects under the Canadian Foundation for Innovation Support Program (CFI-SP).
Document Types: General, project proposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents.
Access: By project.
Record Number: WED 6500-6599

Client Service
Description: Includes records related to delivery of client services. Specifically, these records pertain to business services, capital services, information services, Government on Line, Canada Business Service Centres, integration of government services to business, Urban Development Agreements.
Document Types: Policy; general; meeting, workshop and retreat information; reports; funding agreements; audits and evaluations; Official Languages; advocacy; performance measurements; business plans; budgets; strategies; information products; ministerial briefings; awards.
Access: By region, by subject.
Record Number: WED 6800-6999

Communications
Description: Include records relating to discussions, recommendations and documentation on issues, as well as publicity and promotional planning activities of the Department.
Document Types: General communications issues; requests for information; advertising; reports; surveys; speeches; news releases; news clippings; media tapes and transcripts; publications.
Access:By subject.
Format: Photographs, videos tapes, audio tapes.
Record Number:WED 4000-4099

Community Futures Program
Description: Includes record relating to Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs) in the four western provinces.
Document Types: Policy, general, meeting and conference information, contribution agreements, financial statements, annual operating plans, performance reports, Aboriginal programs, Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Program (EDP), pan-west initiatives and studies, performance measurements, regional issues, ministerial briefings, evaluations, surveys, Western Youth Entrepreneurship Program (WYEP), projects.
Access:By province, by CFDC, by name.
Record Number: WED 5200-5299

Economic Regional Development Agreements (ERDAs)
Description: Economic Regional Development Agreements with the western provinces, and subsidiary agreements with the provincial governments.
Document Types: General, monthly reports, agreements, summaries, briefings, funding negotiations, budgets, financial and program expenditure data, meeting information, ERDA Management Committee, regional economic development, various regional agreements.
Access:By province, by topic.
Record Number: WED 5500-5599

ERDA Sub-Agreement Projects
Description: Includes records relating to projects resulting from Economic Regional Development Agreements or subsidiary agreements. These records are specifically regarding: South Moresby, Agricultural Processing and Marketing Agreement (APMA), Winnipeg Core, including Forks Renewal Corporation and North Portage Development Corporation, Industrial Development Agreement (IDA), Small Business Incentives Sub-Agreement (SBISA)
Document Types:General, project proposals, project information, reports, contribution agreements, audit reports, federal sharing agreements.
Access:By province, by project.
Record Number: WED 5600-5699

First Jobs in Science and Technology Program (FJST)
Description: Includes records related to the First Jobs in Science and Technology Program and approved projects.
Note:This program was discontinued effective April 1, 2005.
Document Types: General, project proposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents, reports.
Access: By subject, by project.
Record Number: WED 6400-6499

Industrial Regional Development Program (IRDP)
Description: Includes records related to subjects and projects relating the Industrial Regional Development Program in the western provinces.
Document Types:General, cross-sectoral policies, regional agreements, requests for information, investigation and analysis, project monitoring, financial statement review, evaluation.
Access:By program name, by project.
Record Number: WED 6000-6099

Infrastructure
Description: Includes records and projects relating to Western Economic Diversification Canada's involvement in the Infrastructure Works Program (IWP), the Infrastructure Canada Program (ICP), the Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund (MRIF) and the Canada Strategic Infrastructure Program (CSIP).
Document Types:Policy, general, meetings/ conferences/seminars, evaluation reports, contribution agreements, project information, environmental assessments, Memorandum of Understanding, communications products/media coverage, audit and evaluation, websites, surveys, Shared Information Management System, committees, budgets
Access:By program name, by project.
Record Number: WED 5900-5999

Innovations and Community Investment Program (ICIP)
Description: Includes records related to projects carried out under the Innovations and Community Investment Program (ICIP).
Document Types: General, project proposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents, reports.
Access:By project.
Record Number: WED 9500-9599

Internal Audit
Description: Includes records related to the internal audits and contribution audits.
Document Types:Policy, general, audit agreements, audits and evaluations reports.
Access: By subject.
Record Number: WED 1560

International Trade Personnel Program (ITPP)
Description: Includes records related to the International Trade Personnel Program and approved projects.
Note:This program was discontinued effective March 31, 2005.
Document Types: General, project proposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents, reports.
Access: By subject, by project.
Record Number: WED 6200-6299

Loans/Investment Funds
Description: Includes records related to leveraged loan funds in partnership with various financial institutions.
Document Types: Policy, general, agreements, business plans, projects, micro loan funds, investment funds, management committee, financial reports, payments.
Access: By fund number; by project.
Record Number: WED 6600-6799

Manitoba: 1997 Flood Disaster Assistance
Description: Includes records relating to 1997 Red River flood disaster assistance in Manitoba.
Note:The flood office closed on March 31, 1999.
Document Types: Policy, general, project records, including payments, advances, guarantees, diking, compensation and reconstruction, business restoration.
Access: By name.
Record Number: WED 5177

Mountain Pine Beetle Program
Description: Includes records related to WD's delivery of the Community Economic Diversification Initiative (CEDI) and the regional Airports Improvement Initiative under the federal Mountain Pine Beetle Program.
Document Types:Policy, general, evaluations, reports, public consultation records, project information.
Access:By program name, by project.
Record Number: WED 7008

Northern Development Agreement
Description: This bank includes projects resulting from the Northern Development Agreement.
Document Types:General, project prposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents, reports.
Access:By subject.
Record Number: WED 5700-5799

Program Evaluations
Description: Includes records relating to evaluation of the effectiveness, efficiency and merit of federal regional development programs administered by WD, including surveys, reports and statistics.
Document Types: Policy, general, surveys, reports, statistics, program evaluations, performance measurements, service standards.
Access: By subject.
Record Number: WED 5065

Service Delivery Network Program
Description: Includes records relating to WD's Service Delivery Network Program. Includes records specifically relating to the Western Canada Business Service Network (Canada Business Service Centres, Community Futures Development Corporation, Francophone Economic Development Organizations and offices of the Women's Enterprise Initiative), community economic development, the Fisheries Adjustment Program.
Document Types: Policy, general, projects, reports, research and studies, contribution agreements, regional initiatives, performance measurements, evaluations, regional issues, communications products, funding, pan west initiatives and meetings.
Access: By province, by subject, by project.
Record Number: WED 7300-7399

Small Business Incentives (SBISA)
Description: Includes records related to project applications for funding assistance under the Small Business Incentives (SBISA) Program in British Columbia.
Document Types: Policy, general, project proposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents, reports.
Access: By subject.
Record Number: WED 5680

Softwood Industry Community Economic Adjustment Initiative (SICEAI)
Description: Includes records related to the WD's delivery of the Softwood Industry Community Economic Adjustment Initiative (SICEAI).
Document Types: Policy, general, meeting information, reporting and statistics, communications materials, Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDC) program delivery information, CFDC contracts, community impact data, complaints, guidelines manual, Industry Canada correspondence, Minister's Advisory Group, briefing notes, ministerial correspondence, Treasury Board submissions, terms and conditions, approved project files, repayable contribution project files, budgets, audits, payments and monitoring, environmental assessments.
Access:By subject, by project.
Record Number: WED 5111

Strategic Initiatives
Description: Includes records related to strategic initiatives in specific industry sectors in Western Canada. Specific sectors include: Aboriginal, aerospare, agricultural, biotechnology regulations, entrepreneurs with disabilities, environmental industries, film industry, financing and capital markets, flexible business networks, forestry, health care, higher education and training, Western Internet Marketing Program, international trade initiatives, pharmaceutical industry, power grid, quality assurance, science and technology, Small Business Legal Information Program, tourism development and marketing, transportation studies, western Canadian energy, Winnipeg Development Agreement, Western Entrepreneurship Centre for Women, and Urban Youth Entrepreneurship Program.
Document Types: Policy, general, strategic initiatives, project proposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents, reports, funding, audits, publications, meeting and conference information, regional issues, ministerial briefings, success stories.
Access:By subject, by project.
Record Number: WED 5400-5499

Sustainable Development Strategy
Description: Includes records related to the department's sustainable activities.
Document Types: Policy, general, action plans, assessment audit, draft and completed Sustainable Development Strategies, discussion papers, questionnaires, meeting information, strategic environmental assessment.
Access:By subject.
Record Number: WED 5185

Urban Aboriginal Strategy (UAS) Program
Description: Records related to the improvement of policy development and program coordination with the intent to assist Aboriginal peoples in the West to participate in the development and diversification of the region's economy.
Note:WD is no longer responsible for the delivery of Urban Aboriginal Strategies in Western Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) is now responsible for the delivery of this program; many of the files were transferred to INAC.
Document Types: Policy, general, regional agreements, framework documents, action/work plans, meeting/conference/ workshop information, ministerial briefings, regional issues, project proposals, approved projects, performance measurements, reports, research/studies, presentations, publications, communications.
Access: By program name.
Record Number: WED 5402-3

Urban Development Agreement
Description: Includes records related to the Urban Development Agreements, including agreements in British Columbia, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg and other.
Document Types: General, policy, agreements, projects, program implementation, Treasury Board submissions, and committee information.
Access: By program name, by province.
Record Number: WED 6985-6999

Western Diversification Program (WDP)
Description: Includes records relating to the Western Diversification Program (WDP) in the western provinces.
Document Types: Policy, general, interest rate buy-downs, International Marketing Initiative, WD Quality Assurance Initiative, Operations Handbook, Market Development Program (MDP), Total Quality Management (TQM), conference sponsorships, regional projects, and the Alberta and Saskatchewan centennary programs.
Access:Files by province, project and subject.
Record Number: WED 7000-7099

Western Economic Diversification – Committees/Meetings/Conferences
Description:Includes records related to the establishment, organization, functions, agendas, minutes, reports, etc. of committees, boards, meetings, conferences that are specific to WD or that have a WD representation.
Document Types: General, various internal and external committees, including Deputy Minister's meetings, Minister's meetings, Departmental Management Committee, Standing Committees and Interdepartmental Committees.
Access:By subject.
Record Number: WED 5020 and WED 5150

Western Economic Diversification – General
Description: Includes records related to the department's involvement with various associations, memberships in committees, procurement initiatives and other topics of a general nature.
Document Types: Policy, transition planning, values and ethics statement, business plans, committees and procurement initiatives.
Access: By subject.
Record Number:WED 5000-5199

Western Economic Diversification – Projects
Description:Includes records relating to projects initiated by WD, summaries, reports, statistics, proposals, inquiries, etc.
Document Types: General, mega-projects, summaries, reports and statistics, issue reports, proposals/inquiries, business plans, project rejections.
Access: By region, by name.
Record Number: WED 5170-5180

Western Economic Diversification – Projects – Reports
Description:Includes records relating to the reports concerning projects initiated by WD, project summaries, statistics, reviews, regional reports, etc.
Document Types: General, project summaries, reports, statistics, project inventory book, review of economic initiatives, regional reports on issues, sector reports, project inventory report, decommitted projects.
Access: By subject.
Record Number: WED 5020 and WED 5167

Western Economic Diversification – Services
Description: Includes records related to the overall administration and activities relative to projects initiated by the department.
Document Types: Project administration, reports, briefing notes, summaries.
Access: Files arranged by subject.
Record Number: WED 7300-7399

Western Economic Partnership Agreements (WEPAs)
Description: Includes records related to information on the cost-shared agreements with the four western provinces, partnership agreements in specific sectors and projects resulting from the WEPAs.
Document Types:Policy, general, briefings, communications, Partnership Agreement Reference Guide, planned funding, renewed agreements, region and industry sector specific agreements, projects.
Access:By subject, by project.
Record Number: WED 5800-5899

Western Transportation Industrial Development Program
Description: Includes records related to projects under the Western Transportation Industrial Development Program.
Document Types: General, project proposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents, reports.
Access: By region; by project.
Record Number:WED 8000-8099

Winnipeg Development Core – Projects
Description: Includes records related to project applications for funding assistance under the Winnipeg Development Core Program.
Document Types: General, project proposals, business plans, financial statements, project analysis and recommendations, contract documents, reports.
Access:By subject.
Record Number: WED 5630