General Interest & Research Resources
You may be asked for your 14 digit library card to access the following resources.

 
Ancestry.com is the largest family history site with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy materials. Search census and voters lists, birth, marriage and death records, immigration, emigration, military records, and more.  This resource is only available from within the Library or Archives.
 Career Cruising is designed to help students and others plan their future. Assessment tools, detailed occupation profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary education information, move seamlessly through the career exploration and planning process.


   Chilton Auto Repair  Contains "Do-it-Yourself? car repair manuals.

Current and accurate information from more than 100 journals advertising and public relations, literature and writing, and linguistics.


  CPI.Q. (Canadian Periodicals) English and French Canadian periodicals; Full text articles; Selections from the Globe and Mail, Maclean?s weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and encyclopedic reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmakers.

Keep pace with the fast changing world of computer, telecommunications and electronics industries.


Consumer Health Complete is designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. Users can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles, as well as within evidence-based reports, fact sheets & pamphlets, drug & herb information, alternative sources, images & diagrams, and video & animations.

Two collections on criminal justice and the law,
drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.


Provides access to the multiple viewpoints, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.


A single search solution by including a cross-search of Gale databases.  A good place to start if you are not sure which resource to use.



Gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture, including the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.



Access to research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

Provides unparalleled coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism fields.



A custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion and  philosophy, archaeology and anthropology.


400 journals, covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs, including socioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more.


Explores what makes people "tick? from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time.




World Book Online  contains every article used in the print set - but that's not all! It also uses  multimedia, maps, website links, and  more.



Literature Resource Center

Biographical information, overviews, criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all periods and from around the world. Access from within the Library or from anywhere with your 14-digit library card number.


 

Novelist

Novelist (also available in French) is available from within the Library or from anywhere with your 14-digit library card number. The NoveList database includes information on more than 180,000 fiction titles for all ages with subject and keyword access; more than 36,000 individual subject headings (fiction); 200,000+ full-text reviews and descriptions from Booklist, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and others. 


  The Library wishes to acknowledge the contribution of the Southern Ontario Library Service and Ontario Library Service - North in providing many of these resources. The support of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Tourism and Culture is gratefully acknowledged.