Here's a list of links to other sites by folks, businesses and organizations alike that impressed me, so I though you'd like to know about them too.
http://www.songwriters.ca/
SAC, the Songwriters Association of Canada. It's the only
national org for Canadian songwriters. I'm one of the
Coordinators for the SAC's Halifax Regional Songwriters
Group.
http://www.socan.ca/
SOCAN, The Society of Composers, Authors and Music
Publishers of Canada. This great org (among many things)
collects and distributes royalties due to songwriters and
publishers. They're all nice folks too!
http://www.ritamacneil.com/index.htm
Ahh, Rita MacNeil. Many years ago I was lucky enough to
work with Rita as a techie/driver type guy. I learned so
much about writing songs, performing and how important fans
are to anyone putting their hearts up on stage. Rita is
great!
http://darleneshiels.com/
Darlene Shiels and I work together on films to feed our
artistic habits. We were having a race to see who could get
their web site up first (she won by 6 months!). Great lady,
great work.
http://www.nsdcc.ns.ca/
The Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council. If you ever have
some extra $$$ (after buying a few pieces from Darlene of
course) you might find something wonderful here.
http://www.musicnovascotia.ca/default2.asp
Music Nova Scotia is a really good org for musicians and
performers in Nova Scotia.
http://www.ccma.org/
The Candian Country Music Association has the best welcome
package of any org I've joined. Everyone I met was
wonderfully supportive. One person's success was celebrated
by everyone at the CCMA's in Saint John, NB in 2006.