Interesting Internet sites

Dictionaries Newpapers and magazines Travel Music Shopping Other

Online dictionaries, grammars, and style guides

• The Canadian Style, a style guide of Canadian English maintained by the Government of Canada
• Clés de la rédaction, un outil du Gouvernement du Canada qui rassemble des recommandations sur la bonne utilisation du français écrit
• English Picodico: provides translations of English mathematical expressions into French
• French-English gastronomy dictionary
• 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.
• Lexique Français-Anglais de Mathématiques
• 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
    • Liste de mots rectifiés dans la nouvelle orthographe
  • Grand dictionnaire terminologique
• Oxford Dictionaries
• 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

• Engineering.com, an aggregator of news about engineering
  • Make: Projects, a science and technology projects community
• Le Franco, édition électronique
• 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.
• streetmap.co.uk
• timeanddate.com, a site with a variety of time-related tools
• Traveline: the UK trip planner

Music-related sites

• La boîte à chansons, a music web site with many guitar tablatures of popular songs, including a very large selection of songs in French
• musicnotes.com, an online sheet music store
• ultimateGuitar.com

Shopping

• Better World Books
• Hill City Comics
• Kijiji, Lethbridge
• Librairie Renaud-Bray
• Powell's Technical Books
• The Wirecutter, a web site that contains carefully considered purchasing recommendations for electronic devices

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.
• Association des Roussel d'Amérique
• Bank of Canada inflation calculator
• Better Business Bureau
  • Southern Alberta (Calgary)
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Canadian Interuniversity Sport
• Google Scholar
• 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.
• Lethbridge Bulls
• Library of Congress Classification Outline
• Muchmenus.com: Lethbridge restaurant listings and menus
• Ph.D. comics
• Printfriendly.com, a web site that prints the actual content of a web site only (eliminating navigation bars, ads, etc.)
• 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
• workingdays.ca, a calculator for the number of working days between two given dates, with appropriate adjustments by province
• WWW virtual library
• xkcd, a geeky web comic