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Almanacs	Dictionaries (Computer)	Encyclopedias
Associations & Organizations	Dictionaries (Culinary)	Maps
Biographies	Dictionaries (English Language)	Postal Information
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Abbreviations.com
http://www.abbreviations.com/ 

The Internet Acronym Server
http://acronyms.silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms

Acronym Finder 
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Glossarist: Acronym Glossaries and Acronym Dictionaries
http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/reference/acronyms.asp

Guinness World Records
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus
http://www.infoplease.com/index.html

The Old Farmer’s Almanac
http://www.almanac.com/

World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Associations on the Net (from ipl2: Information You Can Trust)
http://www.ipl.org/IPLBrowse/GetSubject?vid=13&cid=7&tid=0&parent=0

Charity Village: Directory of registered Canadian charities and nonprofit organizations
http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/nonpr/index.asp

Biography.com
http://www.biography.com

Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

Celebrity Almanac
http://celebrityalmanac.com/

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online 
http://www.biographi.ca/

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/

Infoplease Biography
http://www.infoplease.com/people.html

National Inventors Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp

Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/

Time Person of the Year
http://www.time.com/time/person-of-the-year/2011/?iid=redirect-poy

Who 2
http://www.who2.com/

Budget Calculator (Financial Consumer Agency of Canada)
http://www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca/eng/resources/toolCalculator/budgeting/index-eng.asp

Canadian Retirement Income Calculator (Service Canada)
https://srv111.services.gc.ca/(2oag20yssky3wz3kljp5v045)/INT_01.aspx?lang=e

Conversion & Calculation Center: Measurements, Currencies, World Time, Calculators & Reference
http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/

Convert Auto: convert just about anything automatically
http://www.convertauto.com/

Cost of Post Secondary Education (CanLearn)
http://www.canlearn.ca/eng/postsec/cost/index.shtml

Credit Cards Interactive Tools (Financial Consumer Agency of Canada) 
http://www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca/eng/resources/toolCalculator/creditCard/index-eng.asp

Credit Card Selector Tool (Financial Consumer Agency of Canada)
http://www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca/eng/resources/toolCalculator/creditCard/selectorTool/index-eng.asp

Credit Card Payment Calculator Tool (Financial Consumer Agency of Canada)
http://www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca/iTools-iOutils/CreditCardPaymentCalculator/CreditCardCalculator-eng.aspx

Home Heating System Cost Calculator (Natural Resources Canada. Office of Energy Efficiency)
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/residential/personal/tools/calculators/heatingcalc/index.cfm

Homebuying Tools - Calculators (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/co/buho/buho_005.cfm

Inflation Calculator (Bank of Canada)
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/?page_moved=1

Martindale’s Calculators On-Line Centre
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

Online Conversion
http://www.onlineconversion.com/

Quit 4 Life - Cost Calculator (Smoking) – Health Canada
http://www.quit4life.com/calc_e.asp

RRSP Savings Calculator (Canadian Consumer Information Gateway)
http://consumerinformation.ca/app/oca/ccig/abstract.do?abstractNo=DL000008&language=eng

Repayment Assistance Estimator (RAE) (for student loans) (CanLearn)
http://tools.canlearn.ca/cslgs-scpse/cln-cln/50/rae-ear/rae-ear-1-eng.do

Student Financial Assistance Estimator (SFAE) (CanLearn)
http://tools.canlearn.ca/cslgs-scpse/cln-cln/50/sfae-eafe/sfae-eafe-0-eng.do

The Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.net/ucc/

10,000-Year Calendar
http://calendarhome.com/tyc/

Calendar Generator
http://www.hyperinfo.ca/HyperInfo.CA/Calendar.html

Calendar Zone
http://www.calendarzone.com/

Calendars through the Ages
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/

Earth Calendar
http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php

Printable Calendar Templates
http://www.printablecalendar.ca/

Timeanddate.com
http://www.timeanddate.com/

Time Ticker
http://www.timeticker.com/

Today in History
http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html

WorldTimeZone.com
http://www.worldtimezone.com/

Canadian Colleges (Association of Canadian Community Colleges)
http://www.accc.ca/xp/index.php/en/members/memberinstitutions

Canadian Universities (Associations of Universities and Colleges of Canada)
http://www.aucc.ca/can_uni/our_universities/index_e.html

Ontario Colleges
http://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/eng/postsecondary/schoolsprograms/college/index.html#findschool

Ontario Universities
http://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/eng/postsecondary/schoolsprograms/university/index.html#findschool

Study in the United States: US Universities and Colleges Comprehensive Guide
http://www.usuniversities.com/

Universities Worldwide
http://univ.cc/

Currency Converter - OANDA
http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/

Daily Currency Converter - Exchange Rates (Bank of Canada)
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/exchange/daily-converter/?page_moved=1

Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.net/ucc/

CNET Glossary
http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/index.html

FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing
http://foldoc.org/

Glossary of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

NetLingo The Internet Dictionary
http://www.netlingo.com/

TechDictionary.com
http://www.techdictionary.com/

TechTerms.com: The Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
http://www.techterms.com/

Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions
http://www.webopedia.com/

Baking Glossary (Home Baking Association)
http://www.homebaking.org/glossary/old_glossary.html

Cook's Thesaurus
http://www.foodsubs.com/

Cheese Encyclopedia (Dairy Farmers of Canada)
http://www.dairygoodness.ca/cheese/cheese-encyclopedia

Cheese Glossary (Dairy Farmers of Canada)
http://www.dairygoodness.ca/cheese/cheese-encyclopedia/cheese-glossary

Cooking Dictionary
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/cooking-dictionary/cooking-dictionary.html

Encyclopedia of Cheese
http://www.igourmet.com/ST/encyclopedia.asp

Food Dictionary, Culinary Terms & Cooking Definitions (Epicurious)
http://www.epicurious.com/tools/fooddictionary

Spice Encyclopedia
http://www.spiceadvice.com/encyclopedia/index.html

WineDefinitions.com
http://www.winedefinitions.com/

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://ahdictionary.com/

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Classical Dictionary
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/dictionary/default.htm

Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/

Heinle's Newbury House Dictionary of American English
http://nhd.heinle.com/Home.aspx

Language Tools – iTools
http://itools.com/language

Merriam-Webster Online (Dictionary and Thesaurus)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/

Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary New Words and Senses Sampler
http://www.merriam-webstercollegiate.com/info/new_words.htm  

OneLook Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com/

Online Etymology Dictionary
http://www.etymonline.com/

Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/thesaurus/

Thesaurus.com - Find Synonyms and Antonyms of Words
http://thesaurus.com/

Visual Dictionary Online
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Visuwords - Online Graphical Dictionary and Thesaurus
http://www.visuwords.com/

yourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

FreeTranslation.com
http://www.freetranslation.com

Foreign.com - The Language Site
http://www.foreignword.com/

IntraPorta's Multi-Language Minisite
http://www.intraporta.com/pgs/languages.shtml

Language Dictionaries and Translators
http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html

Lexicool.com - Online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries
http://www.lexicool.com/

LOGOS: Multilingual E-Translation Portal
http://www.logos.it/lang/transl_en.html

Martindale's Language & Translation Center
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Language.html

Travlang: Translating Dictionaries
http://www.dictionaries.travlang.com/

Universal Dictionary Lookup
http://www.1-language.com/dictionary/index.htm

WordReference.com: Online French, Italian and Spanish Dictionary
http://wordreference.com/

Yahoo! Babel Fish - Text Translation and Web Page Translation
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Cancer Glossary
http://www.meds.com/glossary.html

Diabetes Dictionary
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/dictionary/index.htm

Dictionary of Common Medical Terms
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/tools/dictionary.html

Glossary of Eye Terminology
http://www.eyeglossary.net/

Glossary of Ocular Terms
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/glossary/index.html

InteliHealth: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9276/9276.html

MedicineNet MedTerms Dictionary
http://www.medterms.com/Script/Main/hp.asp

MediLexicon (Pharmaceutical and Medical abbreviation dictionary)
http://www.medilexicon.com/

MedlinePlus: Medical Dictionary
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

Mondofacto (formerly the Online Medical Dictionary)
http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?

Biology-Online Dictionary
http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Main_Page

Chemistry and Environmental Dictionary
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/chemistry/dictionary/

Glossary of Botanical Terms in French and English
http://www.mobot.org/mobot/glossary/  

Glossary of Scientific Terms
http://education.jlab.org/glossary/

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/

Life Science Glossary
http://www.biochem.northwestern.edu/holmgren/Glossary/Definitions.html

National Human Genome Research Institute – Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
http://www.genome.gov/glossary.cfm

Visual Dictionary Online
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Weather.com Glossary
http://www.weather.com/glossary/index.html

411.com
http://www.411.com/

AT&T Directories
http://www.corp.att.com/directory/

All Nations International Telephone Calling Code Search Engine (Embassy World)
http://www.embassyworld.com/directories/global_telephone.html

AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance
http://www.anywho.com/

Area Code Locator for North America
http://www.areacodelocations.info/

Area Decoder
http://decoder.americom.com/

Canada 411 
http://www.canada411.ca/

Canada TollFree 
http://www.canadatollfree.ca/Search/

InfoSpace Canada
http://www.infospace.com/canada/

Reverse Phone Directory
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/

SuperPages (Verizon)
http://www.superpages.com/

Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com/

Yahoo! Canada People Search  
http://ca.people.yahoo.com/

The Canadian Encyclopedia Online
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/

Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.bartleby.com/65/

Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/

Encyclopedia of Television
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.html

Encyclopedia of World History
http://www.bartleby.com/67/

PRIME: Platonic Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia
http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/index.asp

Symbols.com: Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
http://www.SYMBOLS.com/

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
http://www.wikipedia.org

World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

All The Worlds Maps
http://www.embassyworld.com/Maps_Of_The_World/

Atlapedia Online
http://www.atlapedia.com/

Atlas of Canada
http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

Mapquest
http://www.mapquest.com

Maps - All The Worlds Maps - A Compilation of Each Nation's Maps - Including State Maps ( Embassy World)
http://www.embassyworld.com/Maps_Of_The_World/

National Geographic Maps
http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps

NAVTEQ Map24 – Maps and Driving Directions for USA, Canada and Europe
http://www.us.map24.com/ 

Oddens's Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection – Country and Regional Map Sites
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/country_sites.html        

Weather Map Sites – Perry-Castañeda Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/wea_sites.html

Xpeditions Atlas
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/

Yahoo! Canada Maps
http://ca.maps.yahoo.com/

Yahoo! Maps
http://maps.yahoo.com/

Canada Post
http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/default.jsf

Free  ZIP Code & Address information
http://www.melissadata.com/keywordsearch/zipcode.htm

Postal Rates.info
http://www.postalrates.info/

Universal Postal Union
http://www.upu.int/index.html

USPS ZIP Code Lookup
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
http://www.bartleby.com/100/

The Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/

Creative Quotations: Quotations for Creative Thinking
http://creativequotations.com/ 

A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html

LitQuotes
http://www.litquotes.com/

Mathematical Quotations Server
http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html

Movie Quotes
http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Quotes/

Phrase Finder
http://www.phrases.org.uk/

Quotations Archive
http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml

The Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/

Quoteland
http://www.quoteland.com

Quoteworld.org
http://www.quoteworld.org/

ThinkExist.com Quotations
http://www.thinkexist.com/

Aboriginal Statistics at a Glance (Statistics Canada) 
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-645-x/89-645-x2010001-eng.htm

Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
http://www.bls.gov/

Canadian Cancer Statistics
http://tinyurl.com/c4lu52 

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse - Gambling Statistics
http://www.ccsa.ca/Eng/Statistics/Canada/GS/Pages/default.aspx

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse - General Health & Addiction Statistics
http://www.ccsa.ca/Eng/Statistics/Canada/GHAS/Pages/default.aspx

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse - Statistics
http://www.ccsa.ca/Eng/Statistics/Pages/default.aspx

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse - Student/Adolescent Alcohol & Drug Use Statistics 
http://www.ccsa.ca/Eng/Statistics/Canada/SAADUS/Pages/default.aspx

Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) - Stats and Facts
http://www.ccsd.ca/factsheets/

Canadian Crime Statistics
http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/85-205-XIE/85-205-XIE.html

Canadian Industry Statistics
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cis-sic.nsf/eng/home

Canadian Institute for Health Information - Quick Stats by Topic
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=statistics_topic_e

Canadian Statistics - Business and Labour Statistics and Census Canada
http://canadaonline.about.com/od/statistics/Canadian_Statistics.htm

Census of Canada: 2001 Census 
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/home/index.cfm

Census of Canada: 2006 Census
http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/rt-td/index-eng.cfm

Children and Youth (Statistics Canada)
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subject-sujet/theme-theme.action?pid=20000&lang=eng&more=0

Community Profiles (Invest in Ontario)  
http://www.sse.gov.on.ca/medt/investinontario/en/Pages/communities.aspx

Community Profiles - 2001 (Statistics Canada)
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/profil01/CP01/Index.cfm?Lang=E

Community Profiles - 2006 (Statistics Canada)
http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/92-591/index.cfm?Lang=E

Correctional Services Statistics (Statistics Canada)
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l3_2693_2149-eng.htm?hili_none

Crime and Justice Statistics (Statistics Canada)
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subject-sujet/theme-theme.action?pid=2693&lang=eng&more=0

Crimes and Offences Statistics (Statistics Canada) 
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l3_2693_2102-eng.htm?hili_none

The Daily
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dai-quo/index-eng.htm

Education Statistics (from Statistics Canada)
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l2_1821-eng.htm

Energy Statistics (from Statistics Canada)
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l2_1741-eng.htm

Environment Statistics (from Statistics Canada)
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l2_1762-eng.htm

Family Violence in Canada - a statistical profile
http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/Statcan/85-224-X/85-224-XIE.html

Financial Rates & Statistics - Bank of Canada
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/index.html

GDSourcing Research and Retrieval: A Reference Point for Canadian Statistics
http://www.gdsourcing.com

Guide to Health Statistics: Your gateway to health information from Statistics Canada
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-573-g/index-eng.htm

Health in Canada (Statistics Canada) 
http://www4.statcan.gc.ca/health-sante/index-eng.htm

Health Statistics (Statistics Canada)
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subject-sujet/theme-theme.action?pid=2966&lang=eng&more=0

Health System Facts and Figures (Ontario Hospital Association)
http://www.healthsystemfacts.com/

International Trade Statistics (Statistics Canada)
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l2_1130-eng.htm

Juristat
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/index-eng.htm

Labour Statistics (Statistics Canada)
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l2_2621-eng.htm

OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web (University of Auckland Library New Zealand)
http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/

Population and Demography Statistics (Statistics Canada)
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l2_3867-eng.htm

Price and Price Indexes Statistics (Statistics Canada)
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l2_3956-eng.htm

Statistical Agencies (International)
http://www.census.gov/aboutus/stat_int.html

Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html

Statistics: Power from Data!
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/edu/power-pouvoir/toc-tdm/5214718-eng.htm

Statistics Canada: Canada's National Statistical Agency
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html

Statistics Canada: Statistics by Subject
http://cansim2.statcan.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.exe?Lang=E&CORCmd=GetTList&ResultTemplate=Srch1

Statistics Canada: Summary Tables
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/index-eng.htm

UNdata: A World of Information
http://data.un.org/

Environment Canada - Weather
http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/canada_e.html

Intellicast.com: Weather for Active Lives
http://www.intellicast.com/

The Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/

The Weather Network 
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/

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