Atlantic to Arctic -- Personal Property Registry System Heads North with Help From Unisys.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers NORTH YORK North York Former city (pop., 2001: 608,288), southeastern Ontario, Canada. In 1998 it joined the cities of Etobicoke, Scarborough, Toronto, and York and the borough of East York to become the City of Toronto. North York became a borough in 1967 and a city in 1979. , Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2001 Atlantic Canada's electronic Personal Property Registry System licensed to the Northwest Territories Northwest Territories, territory (2001 pop. 37,360), 532,643 sq mi (1,379,028 sq km), NW Canada. The Northwest Territories lie W of Nunavut, N of lat. 60°N, and E of Yukon. and Nunavut governments by agreement with Service New Brunswick Service New Brunswick (in French, Service Nouveau-Brunswick), commonly referred to as SNB, is a crown corporation in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. and Unisys now in production Centuries-old paper registries are all but gone in six of Canada's thirteen provinces and territories, replaced by electronic Personal Property Registry Systems (PPRS PPRS Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (UK) PPRS Petroleum Production Reporting System PPRS Personality Profile Reporting System PPRS Promotions & Placements Referral System ) developed in Atlantic Canada, now also in production in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. The newest pair of computerized registry systems supports the Personal Property Security Acts (PPSA PPSA Personal Property Security Act (Canada) PPSA Pulp and Paper Safety Association PPSA Power Plant Siting Act PPSA Philippine Practical Shooting Association PPSA Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona ) of the two territories, replacing the current Document Registry that serves both territories from a single location at the Government of the Northwest Territories Legal Registries office. The Northwest Territories PPRS and Nunavut PPRS are customized systems based on the Atlantic Canada model, similarly delivered through a shared infrastructure and modified to support the legislation of each territory. Financial institutions, lawyers and other commercial organizations can now enter notices of security interest in these on-line territory-wide PPRS from their office or home computers. Access to the PPRS is available by subscription through Atlantic Canada On-Line (ACOL ACOL Abortion Clinics OnLine ACOL Advisory Committee for Online Learning (Canada) ACOL AIDS Committee of London (Ontario, Canada) ACOL Air Combat On-Line (US Navy) ), a public-private partnership Public-private partnership (PPP) describes a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies. These schemes are sometimes referred to as PPP or P3. between Unisys Canada Inc. and the four Atlantic provinces Atlantic Provinces, term used since 1949 to designate the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. , an alliance formed to help provincial governments in Atlantic Canada meet the challenge of improving service delivery while maintaining or reducing costs. The PPRS of the territories are incorporated into this single-point-of-access service by agreement with the Atlantic provinces. Under agreement with Service New Brunswick, Unisys markets the PPRS software application, which was originally developed in New Brunswick New Brunswick, province, Canada New Brunswick, province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada. and subsequently enhanced and supported by Unisys for electronic delivery via ACOL. About Unisys Unisys is an e-business solutions company whose 37,000 employees help customers in 100 countries apply information technology to seize opportunities and overcome challenges of the Internet economy. Unisys people integrate and deliver the solutions, services, platforms and network infrastructure required by business and government to transform their organizations for success in this new era. The company offers a rich portfolio of Unisys e-@ction Solutions for e-business based on its expertise in vertical industry solutions, network services, outsourcing, systems integration and multivendor support, coupled with enterprise-class server and related technologies. The primary vertical markets Unisys serves worldwide include financial services, transportation, communications, publishing and commercial sectors, as well as the public sector, including federal government customers. Unisys is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania Blue Bell is a census-designated place (CDP) in Whitpain Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 6,395. , in the Greater Philadelphia area. For more information on the company, access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web at www.unisys.com. Investor information can be found at www.unisys.com/investor. 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