Encyclopedias & General Reference

Featuring 200+ city travel guides, AtoZ World Travel is a comprehensive travel resource with information about points of interest, security, transportation, food and recipes, culture, language, and more.

A large collection of scanned early Canadian print materials, including complete ebooks. Some resources are only accessible inside the library.

An online resource for our youngest researchers to use. Explora has topic overviews, research starters, and an easy-to-use search interface to make learning and research for projects easy and fun!

Primary Search is for elementary school learners. It includes full text for the most popular children's magazines, e-books, and easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids.

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Watch the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia tutorial, opens a new window to learn more about this resource.

Access current and past issues of National Geographic Kids magazine as well as National Geographic Kids books and movies on kids' favourite topics.

Watch the National Geographic Kids, opens a new window tutorial to learn more about this resource.

Specifically designed to meet the needs of PreK-3 researchers, PebbleGo supports literacy and builds a foundation for a lifetime of learning. Users can click Listen to engage the read-aloud feature and follow along with text-highlighting, and play games or answer the Question of the Day!

Explore the world of animals, important people, and places in easy-to-read articles, images, and videos. You can also solve puzzles while learning fun facts or try out science experiments.