Recommended Sites:  Reference

General Reference

• CharityVillage
  Canada's supersite for the nonprofit sector including news, jobs, information and resources for executives, staffers, donors, and volunteers.
• Digital Librarian
  A librarian's choice of the best of the Web arranged by subjects.
• EHow.com
  Articles are organized under subjects, e.g. cars, computers, careers & work, business, and more.
• Flags and Arms of Canada
  Flags and coat of arms for Canada and provinces. Also includes flag and coat of arms of Nunavut.
• Gray's Anatomy
  Search Gray's Anatomy online at Yahoo! Reference for depth information on the anatomy of the human body.
• How To Clean Anything
  Thousands of tips.
• HowStuffWorks
  Find out how everyday objects and specialized equipment work.
• Imagine Canada
  Imagine Canada supports the work of charities, foundations, socially conscious corporations and fundraisers.
• International Data Base (IDB)
  From the U.S. Census Bureau, access several electronic databases which include population figures for the United States, and other countries.
• Internet Archive
  A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Its purpose is to offer permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format, and preserve the history of the Internet in collaboration with institutions such as ALA, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian.
• IPL Literary Criticism
  Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical web sites. This site can be browsed by author, title, or by literary period. Online Literary Criticism Guide has links to sites on literary criticism. The Pathfinder: Literary Criticism provides tips on how to find and prepare literary criticism.
• Legal Line
  Legal Line provides information covering Ontario and Canadian Federal Laws, not legal advice.
• Multicultural Canada
  Look at newpaper articles, artifacts, photos and interviews from early New Canadians to Canada.
• Ontario Architecture Website
  A nonprofit educational Web site developed to help you appreciate architecture both in Ontario and the rest of the world.
• Quotations
  From Bartleby.com, search the electronic version of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the Columbus World of Quotations and Simpson's Contemporary Quotations.
• Quoteland.com
  Search for well-known quotations by topic or use their search engine.
• Science.ca
  A source for Canadian science including information on selected Canadian scientists. Suitable for school-age children.
• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
  From Wikipedia, including the seven wonders of the ancient world, and links to seven 'other' wonders.
• Southern Ontario Library Service - Search Tools
  A listing of links to sites providing information on Internet searching as well as links to various types of Internet search tools, and databases.
• Southern Ontario Library Service - Ready Reference Resources
  An A-Z selection of links intended to serve as an on-line reference collection, including telephone directories, biographical information, and weather.
• Virtual Perpetual Calendars
  Display calendars for any year, and other utilities such as Zodiac dates, days between dates, seasons, holidays listed.
• World Time Server
  Determine the time in other cities and countries.
  • Daylight Saving Time and Map
• WorldTimeZone.com
  World time and time zones, and maps with current times around the world. Includes daylight savings time and a sunclock map showing day and night regions.
• Yahoo! - Reference: Calendars
  Links to information on calendars of many kinds.
• Yahoo! Flags
  Links to other sites on flags.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Canadian Encyclopedia
  Online access to the full text of the Canadian Encyclopedia presented by the Historica Foundation of Canada. You can also search the Youth Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, Macleans articles.
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
  An excellent site for Canadian biographical information from Library and Archives Canada. It includes people who died from 1000-1930.
• The Free Dictionary
  Multiple dictionaries including English, medical, legal, financial, computer dictionaries, thesaurus, acronyms - or try your luck at a spelling bee.
• iTools
  Database consisting of the following Internet tools: dictionaries, maps, quotation sources, telephone directories, translator programs, and financial tools.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) - Dictionaries
  Scroll down the page and look for the heading Ready Reference and Quick Facts and select Dictionaries. Link to English, foreign language and specialized subject dictionaries.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  SEP is a free online encyclopedia of philosophy run and maintained by Stanford University. A long term fundraising plan is in place to help preserve open access to the Encyclopedia, supported by many university libraries and library consortia.
• Wikipedia
  The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit, correct, or improve information throughout the encyclopedia, simply by clicking the edit this page link.
• yourDictionary.com
  The Bucknell University site has a search engine for English language terms based on "Webster's Collegiate Dictionary." It also links to over 400 dictionaries in 130 languages, and to specialized English and multilingual dictionaries.

Geography & Country Info

• Atlas of Canada
  Formerly the National Atlas of Canada, this site provides maps incorporating data on a variety of topics, e.g. environment, people, climate change and economic. Check out the excellent new feature consisting of virtual topographic maps. Maps on topics from the 2006 census are now on this site.
• Canada at a Glance
  Current Canadian demographic, education, health and aging, justice, housing, income, labour market household, economic, travel, financial, agricultural, foreign trade and environmental statistics from Statistics Canada.
• Canadian Atlas Online
  Click on Explore the maps to use this interactive atlas from Canadian Geographic.
• Community Profiles
  Select by the Ontario community or region. The information is provided to the Ontario Investment Service by the communities listed on this site.
• Countries and Regions: Background Notes
  Published by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications, U.S. State Department, this site is an excellent resource for profile information on foreign countries. Each profile includes geographic, economic and political information, as well as general statistics.
• Global Gazetteer
  Search for latitude, longitude and other information for place names around the world.
• OurOntario.ca
  Sponsored by Knowledge Ontario, this site features digitized collections from libraries and museums. These include texts, atlases, images, script music, audio and video material.
• WorldFactbook
  The CIA's annual country information reference book, providing data for more than 260 countries of the world, including map and flag, geographic, population, government, economic, communication, transportation, military, and transnational issue information for the latest date available.

Telephone Directories

• 411.ca
  This directory assistance site will help you find telephone numbers for people and businesses. It also has a reverse lookup.
• 411.com
  Searches Canadian and U.S. white and yellow pages; also includes a reverse lookup, reverse address and area and zip codes
• AnyWho (AT&T)
  Search white and yellow page listings for persons and businesses in the United States.
• Area Code Locator for North America
  Provides a list of locations for each area code in the US, Canada and some Carribean Islands.
• Canada411
  Telephone directory for Canada, including both white and yellow pages.
• Canada TollFree
  This online directory is a great tool for helping you get to free information about products and services from anywhere in Canada. You can search for toll-free numbers connected with businesses or services by using regular words like "hotel", "fish", or "car". Or you can search by the name of the business as well.
• Infobel World - Telephone Directories
  Link to international phone books, both yellow and white pages. Use to find e-mail addresses and other useful links are here as well.
• myTELUS Phone Book
  White and yellow pages for Alberta and B.C. including reverse lookup.
• Postal Code Look-up
  From Canada Post, the electronic version of the postal code books.
• Royal Mail's Online Postcode Finder
  The postal code look up for Great Britain.
• United States Postal Service - Zip Code Lookup
  Find zip code and address information site for the U.S.
• YellowPages.ca
  Select Canadian listings by city, province, category or business name.
• YellowPages.com
  Search white and yellow page listings for persons and businesses in the United States.

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