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www.schoolfinder.com - Find information on more than 700 universities, colleges and career colleges in Canada, including admission requirements, costs, programs and contact details.
www.studentawards.com - Provides information on scholarships, bursaries and grants for Canadians.
www.edselect.com/today_in_history.htm - A collection of history links including holidays and cultural events around the world, timelines, calendars of important dates, Canadian history, and more.
www.parl.gc.ca/ - Provides information on Canada's Parliament.
www.britannica.com - Search the 32-volume Encyclopedia Britannica, browse alphabetically, browse the world atlas, browse timelines, browse by subject, or search the Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus.
www.onelook.com - Allows users to search web sites for words and phrases.
www.howstuffworks.com - Find out how anything and everything works!
http://dictionary.reference.com - Look up words in the online dictionary or thesaurus. Also includes language resources, fun & games, a translator, and more!
www.safekids.com - Provides tips, advice and suggestions to make your family's online experience fun and productive
www.encyclopedia.com/ - More than 50,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia - and it's free!
www.statcan.gc.ca/ -The official source for Canadian social and economic statistics and products. A source for current, reliable and accurate data for all subjects.
www.infoplease.com/ - combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, to provide reference information at your fingertips.
www.freetranslation.com is an easy-to-use site that provides translations of foreign language text and web pages... don't forget to choose the languages and to scroll down and insert the special characters if needed.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com - Historica, a charitable foundation dedicated to promoting Canadian history education has made The Canadian Encyclopedia available online.
www.nlc-bnc.ca/caninfo/ecaninfo.htm - Canadian Information by Subject is an information service developed by the National Library of Canada to provide links to information about Canada from Internet resources around the world. It is organized using the Dewey Decimal Classification system and could be a useful tool to assist cataloguers in assigning materials a Dewey Decimal number.
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html - Canadiana Quick References provides answers to some of the "quick reference" questions that the National Library of Canada receives regularly.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ - A great web search where users can search for specific terms, browse a variety of categories, or search subjects by letter.