Resource Centre

Mathew Ingram has a Facebook account. He's not a student looking for someone to share his drunken stories with, or to hook up with his long-lost love from spring break. He's a journalist who has discovered that social networks are a gigantic resource for tracking down people and creating stories.

The content is divided into different encyclopedias; the Canadian Encyclopedia, Youth Encyclopedia (for students, with more concise and clearly written information), Encyclopedia of Music (scholarly resource of Canadian music), feature articles (narrative style, broadens some of the topics in the encyclopedia) and a selection of articles from Maclean's magazine. There is also a section on the site which has galleries, interactive resources, quizzes, timelines and a list of the "100 Greatest Events" in Canadian history. The site is well-organized and easy to navigate. More than 5,000 scholars and experts have contributed with their knowledge, which has resulted in more than 50,000 articles.

Ethnologue.com offers a wide range of resources for research about the languages of the world. Their bibliography contains references to more than 13,000 books, scholarly journals, books, dissertations and academic material, most of which a sample can be viewed online, or purchased. The site also has an extensive map of all countries which shows where the different languages are spoken, and information about each of them.

The Bank of Canada 10-year Currency Converter enables you to see the exchange rate for any currency for a selected time period (a maximum of 10 years ago). The site converts any amount of any currency, and you can choose if you want to use the currency rate from the last business day, a certain number of past business days or from a certain start date to an end date. It gives you the option of using the nominal rate or the cash rate (the total amount you would pay if you went to a bank to convert the money, as most banks add 4% for this service).