Web sites of general interest suggested by our club members and other users. It will grow as time goes by
6th August 2001

Any there are any errors please advise the webmaster by email.

Age of Reason

Antiques

Atlas

Auto buying

Biography

British Royal Family web site

Canadian Encyclopedia

CIA countries of the world.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Gardening

20th Century timeline history

History

Multi map site   - 

National Geographic

Old e-mail addresses redirection

Our Roots

Parks

PC Hardware/software information

 

Digital photography

Print a screen

Sotheby's Auction house.

The Ships List

Virtual Museum

Weather Office

Web lingo

Index

The Ship List

The Ships List was established to assist those seeking information on the vessels which brought their ancestors to their new home, be that the United States, Canada, Australia, or another part of the world. Some ships passenger lists, schedules, wreck data, and other information which is not readily available, has been collected, along with links to other sites of interest.
Suggested by Ed Bignell

www.theshipslist.com

Weather Office

The official in-depth place to go for weather reports supplied by Environment Canada.
www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca

Atlas

The national atlas of Canada on-line. Lots of historical info also.
www.atlas.gc.ca

Parks Canada

The parks Canada virtual tours page lets you click on this country's various government protected wildernesses,
view photographs and watch videos. In the PEI section, watch a short video of Green Gables House; in the Ontario subsite check out Peterborough's petroglyphs. In some pages you can also click on "learn more" or go to www.parcscanada.gc.ca/parks/alpha2e.htm to get an alphabetic listing and links of all historical sits in Canada.

www.parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/thesite/virtual_e.cfm

History

Inspired by the HistoryLands television series, you can now take a multimedia virtual tour of some of Canada's most fascinating National Historic sites.
www.historylands.com

Canadian Encyclopedia

www.histori.ca

To print all of the screen or part thereof
(as we used to able to do in the days of DOS and Win3.1)
      www.infinitejoy.com
   Click downloads at the top of the page and then
in the body of the following page, click, PRINTKEY510.exe

This program is neat if you have old e-mail addresses. It will
redirect them to your current or the one that you want them to show up in:
www.veripost.net

Sotheby's

Attend an auction at Sotheby's, one of the world's premier auction houses,
without leaving your home. Their web site lets you browse or search categories
and sub-categories. Everything imaginable is there to look at.
click on www.sothebys.com

Encyclopedia Britannica

The veteran encyclopedia lets you search its online database
for information on whatever it is you need to know.
www.britannica.com

Antiques

This web site can be great fun for the collector or the curious.
Thousands of antiques to browse through. Doesn't cost a cent to browse.
Have fun
www.antiqnet.com

Gardening

All kinds of information about gardening and plant identification.
At the bottom of the Home page is gardening. Click there.
www.marthastewart.com

National Geographic

The online version of this classic magazine offers the gorgeous photos it is known for.
www.nationalgeographic.com

Web Lingo.

Don't know the difference between bandwidth and a firewall? Having trouble figuring out all those
acronyms? Help is at hand. Webopedia is an online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet
technology, and can help you determine what all the bells and whistles in your PC are actually supposed
to do.

www.webopedia.com

PC Hardware/software information

This site is sponsored by a computer magazine but a great deal of information
about Personal Computer systems is available for free.

www.pcpitstop.com

Age of Reason

Over 5,000 links to sites of interest to the over 50 age group.
Use the Age of Reason Canada website for information on everything from the
Canadian provincial governments to libraries and seniors job bank.
The Toronto area guide is especially helpful

www.ageofreason.com

Biography

Highlights of 2,000 subjects featured on the A&E biography TV programme

www.biography.com

Virtual Museum

This site links to many other Canadian museum/gallery sites

www.virtualmuseum.ca

Timelines of the 20th Century

History presented in the form of time charts. Very interesting

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/timelin1.htm

A CIA publication of the countries of the world

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Shopping for an auto
It is just a matter of clicking. Free information on new models can be found by clicking
"car-buying information" on the web site's main page. From there, you
can either click on the make and model, or try the New Car Research Centre located
below the list to find a vehicle that's right for you. It is claimed this service is free and
there is no obligation to buy. There is lots of free info.
This information from the a Toronto Star column Sat. August 3rd 2002 - Janet Lai

www.autobytel.ca

Maps of the world

A great map and directions site for most places in the world.

www.multimap.com

Photograph tips - including Digital

Lots of information at this site

www.photographytips.com

Canada

Canada's local histories on line

www.ourroots.ca

British Royal Family web site

www.royalinsight.gov.uk/current/front.html

 

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