Resources and Reference Links
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Ancestry Library Edition
Provides access to family history via documents recording the lineage of over 5 billion individuals. Covers census, military, court, land, probate, vital and church records from Canada, the US, UK, and some European countries.
Atlas of Canada
Provides authoritative, current, and accessible geographic information products at a national level.
Bartleby.com Quotations
Over 11,000 quotations from John Bartlett’s collection, providing a comprehensive selection of historical quotes.
Dictionary.com
Provides online and mobile dictionary and thesaurus resources to empower word discovery and learning.
Encyclopedia.com
Provides credible answers from published reference works, including 49 encyclopedias and 73 dictionaries and thesauruses.
Library and Archives Canada
Contains materials from across Canada and around the world, providing a shared documentary heritage for all Canadians.
OneLook Dictionary Search
A search engine for words and phrases, indexing more than 5 million words in more than 1000 online dictionaries.
OverDrive
Offers a large collection of audiobooks, eBooks, music, and video for libraries. Compatible with PC, Mac, iPod, Zune, Sony Reader, nook, and other mobile devices.
Refdesk.com Encyclopedias
Indexes quality, credible, and timely resources that are free and family-friendly. Offers encyclopedias, dictionaries, and fact resources.
Roget's Thesaurus
Peter Roget’s classic thesaurus structure, with over 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references.
Snappy Words
Snappywords.com is a popular resource for everything you need to know about the English language. Students of schools and universities come here to find useful synonyms and antonyms for their essays, term papers and theses. The Visual Dictionary enhances your understanding of words with engaging visualizations and connections to related terms. Puzzle players share solutions with each other in our Scrabble Dictionary and in the Crossword Puzzle Help. Our Word Generator fosters creativity and our Word Unscrambler is really handy for sorting letters out. In the Knowledge Corner we present interesting information about sentences, words, letters and English grammar. The Word Finder locates words according to a user's pre-defined parameters. Mental fitness is trained through our games and puzzles.
The Canadian Atlas Online
A mapping tool with geography-related features, such as weather and Canada's natural regions.
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Provides the most comprehensive, objective, and accurate source of information on Canada for students, readers, and scholars worldwide.
The Columbia Encyclopedia
Contains nearly 51,000 entries covering a vast range of topics, with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.
The Quotation Page
Established in 1994, this site offers over 26,000 quotations from more than 3,100 authors.
Wikipedia
A free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Older articles tend to be more comprehensive and balanced, while newer articles may still contain misinformation.