Interesting Internet sites

Dictionaries Newpapers and magazines Travel Other

Online dictionaries, grammars, and style guides

• The Canadian Style, a style guide of Canadian English maintained by the Government of Canada
• French-English gastronomy dictionary
• French-English and English-French mathematical glossary
• Lexilogos: a linguistics site (in French) which includes a number of links to dictionaries (not just French)
• Office québecois de la langue française
  • Banque de dépannage linguistique
  • Grand dictionaire terminologique
• TERMIUM Plus, a terminology and linguistic database maintained by the Government of Canada, which includes terms in English, French and Spanish. This database is not completely systematic, but includes many technical terms used in various areas of government (and in other contexts). It can be used as an English-French-Spanish dictionary, or simply to verify that a certain expression is in fact the preferred one to express a given concept.

Online newspapers and magazines

• Globe and Mail
• Lethbridge Herald
• Lethbridge Life: online magazine with local arts and entertainment listings, etc.
• The Scientist
• Le Soir

Travel-related sites

• Bank of Canada currency converter
• Get-a-map: provides a limited number or maps from the U.K. Ordnance Survey
• Mapquest.com: includes a distance calculator and route planner
• National Express, Britain's coach line
• National Rail Enquiries: train schedules and fares in the U.K.
• Steve Kropla's information for world travel
• streetmap.co.uk
• Traveline: the UK trip planner

Other resources

• 123 Greetings, a site for generating and sending emailed greeting cards
• Al's Home Improvement Center: This site provides a number of home improvement projects and tips.
• Alberta Blue Cross member services
• Association des Roussel d'Amérique
• Better Business Bureau
  • Southern Alberta (Calgary)
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Canadian Interuniversity Sport
• Google docs: a site which allows you to create and edit documents (with some level of Microsoft compatibility), including projects shared with other users
• ICBC Buying a Car page: contains links to a number of web sites which provide information on automobile pricing, safety, etc.
• Incompetech.com: This web site contains an odd assortment of free content: music, graph paper generators (including some unusual ones like hexagonal, triangular, log and polar), calendar generators, and a database of British authors, to name just a few resources on this site.
• Journal of Undergraduate Research writing style guide: This is a style guide that covers many of the puzzles that specifically come up when writing scientific articles.
• Kijiji, Lethbridge
• Librairie Renaud-Bray
• Library of Congress Classification Outline
• Muchmenus.com: Lethbridge restaurant listings and menus
• NSTN cybermall
  • Roswell computer bookstore
• Ph.D. comics
• Powell's Technical Books
• Les Roussel du monde, le site de Maurice Roussel
• Samarin's.com, a site that gives advice on buying new and used cars
• The Sports Network
• Waitrose food illustrated: a compendium of useful information about ingredients and cooking
• The Weather Network
  • Lethbridge weather
• Web Pages that Suck
• WWW virtual library
• xkcd, a geeky web comic