General Resources
Canadian Encyclopedia
The most comprehensive and authoritative general Canadian reference work available.
Info Please
This comprehensive reference source combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs.
Find a Postal Code - Canada Post
Search by street address, rural route, and PO box, or find the address range for a postal code.
Canada's National Climate and Weather Data Archive
Find out what the weather was like on specific dates in the past, or look at climate averages and extremes over time.
KnowPlay? Reference Search
A single-screen portal to multiple reference searches from art to acronyms.
Refdesk.com
This award winning website offers an extensive collection of credible and current fact finding links.
IPL2 Ready Reference
An annotated collection of high quality Internet resources, selected by ipl2 staff for their usefulness in providing accurate, factual information on a particular topic or topics.
Country Studies
Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Similar in scope to the CIA Fact Book, this site provides detailed profiles of over 100 countries and regions.
CIA - The World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Currency & Exchange
Measuring Worth
Convert past values into modern equivalents (and vice versa) for prices, purchasing power, earnings, GDP, interest rates, exchange rates and more economic variables.
Inflation Calculator
This Bank of Canada calculator uses monthly consumer price index data from 1914 to the present to show changes in the cost of Canadian consumer purchases during this period.
Universal Currency Converter
Calculate live currency and foreign exchange rates with this free currency converter.
Dictionaries
Worknik
An interactive online dictionary of English which provides provides sample sentences showing words in context, information about words' frequency and use patterns, related words, images illustrating meaning, and more.
YourDictionary
A comprehensive and authoritative language portal to more than 2,500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages. Also offers reference articles and games that build language skills.
Word Smyth
A "dictionary for everyone" with an integrated thesaurus, reverse search (by definition), usage examples, grammar tips, and more.
WordReference.coom
A large multilingual dictionary for English to and/or from French, Spanish, German, Italian and several more languages.
Time & Measurement
Time and Date
This incredibly useful website includes a world clock, time zone converter & meeting planner, sun & moon calendars, date calculators & countdowns, and more.
Convert_Me.com
Online conversion for many measurement systems, both common (metric, Imperial, etc.) and rare.
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