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Oxford English Dictionary
(Click for more detail)600,000 words … 3.5 million quotations … over 1000 years of English
PRDH (Programme de recherche en démographie historique)
(Click for more detail)Database containing a directory of civil status records (baptisms, marriages and burials) in Quebec (1621-1799), a genealogical dictionary of families (1621-1765) and a directory of couples and descendants.
Reference Solutions (Formerly Reference Canada)
(Click for more detail)Reference Solutions is a provider of business and consumer research.
There are several databases to search:
Canadian Businesses: A directory of 2.3 million Canadian businesses
U.S.Jobs/Internships: 2.5 Million Job Postings
Universalis
(Click for more detail)With more than 30,000 articles and 17,000 interactive medias, Universalis covers all domains of knowledge and is the most important general encyclopedia in French. There is also an integrated dictionary with 120,000 definitions.
Universalis Junior
(Click for more detail)An online encyclopedia in French created for children and young adults.
Value Line
(Click for more detail)The Value Line Investment Survey and Small & Midcap Survey offers access to over 3,500 stocks across 100 industries. This includes analysts’ reports, statistics and forecasts of stock performance.
Worxica
(Click for more detail)Worxica, a curated job vacancy archive, is Canada's first free big data job market research tool. It's built specifically for job seekers and recruiters. The tools is a curated, online archive of two million Canadian job vacancies advertised over the past year.