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Cantook: French-language eBooks and Audiobooks
(Click for more detail)Popular and classic French-language eBooks and Canadian audiobooks. Compatible with most devices. The app Cantook requires iOS 14 or higher.
Curio.ca
(Click for more detail)Curio.ca offers access to thousands of commercial-free educational video and audio streams from CBC and Radio-Canada. Categories include Canadian history, health, business, children's programming, Indigenous studies and many others.
EduMedia
(Click for more detail)Short animations in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, and Russian, amongst other languages, with complementary texts to learn about scientific concepts.
Eureka.cc
(Click for more detail)The database allows searchable access to full articles, columns and features from the major French-Canadian newspapers and certain magazines such as Protégez-vous and L`Actualité. News sources include full-text articles from Le Droit, Le Devoir, La Presse, Le Soleil and SRC radio and television.
Flipster eMagazines
(Click for more detail)Access today's edition of popular magazine titles including Maclean's, Scientific American, Time, People, and others.
French audiobooks: Cloud library
(Click for more detail)A collection of popular fiction and nonfiction eAudio in French for all ages.
Généalogie Québec
(Click for more detail)Provides access to over 42,000,000 images and files from the origins of New France to today, drawn from the search tools of the Drouin Genealogical Institute.
Hoopla
(Click for more detail)This digital media service provides customers access to motion picture films, television shows, complete music albums, graphic novels & comics, and BingePasses. The collection includes current and past hits, as well as classics.
Kanopy
(Click for more detail)Kanopy offers a large collection of high-quality films and documentaries from art-house classics to world cinema, all available to play on your PC, phone, tablet, and digital media player.
Mozaik
(Click for more detail)Free and unlimited online courses in French. Learn languages, sewing, singing, coding for kids, watch documentary films, and more! Find audiobooks, BD (graphic novels) on the Nextory app, as well as games such as sudoku and crossword puzzles.
NFB (National Film Board) Campus
(Click for more detail)NFB Campus streams almost 1,500 more films than the free NFB site. (Those 1,500 extra films are only available for streaming in library through OPL NFB Campus subscription; The other 4,300 films are available free from NFB site www.nfb.ca).
Overdrive Magazines (Formerly RBDigital Unlimited Magazines -Zinio)
(Click for more detail)A package of over 3,000 popular titles (including Canadian Living, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and many more) with varieties of languages and up to three years of back issues are now available for unlimited simultaneous access with no circulation caps.