Access Video on Demand is a streaming video platform with a focus on educational films. The collection includes 41,213 videos,  331,668 video segments and 1,094 subject categories. The topics range from Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Science, Mathematics and Technology, Social Sciences, Careers and Trades, Health and Wellness, Home and Family, and Archival films and newsreels. Many popular documentaries originally produced for National Geographic, HBO, PBS, BBC, TED Talks, Nova, Rick Steves’ Europe, Scientific American, and more are included. Closed-captioning and interactive transcripts are available on many titles. Customers need a valid OPL card in order to access the service.  Engage, inform, and entertain with its vivid and appealing new design of Access Video On Demand! Includes unlimited, simultaneous usage; in-library use and remote access.

A self-paced program designed to develop reading skills. The program has six levels from Elementary to Advanced, with 10 units at each level. Each unit focuses on a specific reading skill such as skimming texts, reading critically or vocabulary building, which are organized around one or more texts such as articles, advertisements, emails, poems, etc. The program also works on other skills such as listening practice, essay writing and discussion activities.  Exercises are marked and scored and readers can track their progress.

A collection of thousands of individual genealogy databases from many different institutions. It includes American, Canadian and U.K. sources as well as some for Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Canadian coverage includes major sources such as the censuses from 1851 to 1916, Ontario civil registration of births, marriages and deaths, and the Quebec Drouin Collection (courthouse copies of parish registers). German records include passenger lists for many people leaving Eastern Europe. New databases are constantly being added.  Many of the sources are digitized.  Bring a USB flash drive to download your records.

Learn more about food in history and culture while discovering thousands of traditional recipes from 174 countries.

AtoZ World Food features:

• 6,500 + Recipes
• 750 + World Beer Reviews
• 13,000 + High Quality photos
• 500 + Ingredient Articles
• 850 + Future Culture Articles
• 6 Food Glossaries
• Personal Recipe Book

A large assortment of streaming audiobooks that are always available.  Includes fiction and nonfiction material for both adults and children.

Offers access to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster dictionary & thesaurus and an interactive atlas. Many articles feature images, audio files, videos, and a list of recommended websites.

Access thousands of articles that cover subjects for school and fun, from nations of the world to animals and sports.

Canada’s Information Resource Centre now provides online access to four titles that we currently have in our collection:

• Canadian Almanac and Directory

The Almanac section has its own pages and is searchable along with the directory.

• Associations Canada

Introductory material is only available in PDF, the other content is searchable from the search fields.

• Canadian Parliamentary Guide

Introductory material is only available in PDF, the other content can be searched by various fields.

• Canadian Who’s Who

It has its own search screen. Please just click on the title and it will take you to the search screen.

Since all those four printed titles are for in-library use only, this online remote access will provide a convenient option to access a diverse array of virtual who’s who and what’s where in Canada

This online access is for a single-user license. If you have trouble logging on you may wish to try again later

This encyclopedia includes over 40,000 articles and 60,000 photographs, as well as maps, graphs, games, quizzes and videos.  Updated regularly, it contains The Encylopedia of Canada, The Youth Encyclopedia of Canada. (in English only) The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, Feature articles on different subjects, MacLean’s Magazine articles and The Timeline of Canadian History.

This full-text database includes the complete available electronic backfiles for major national and regional newspapers from 1985 to current, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features.  Content is updated daily.  Among the titles are The Globe and Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Regina Leader Post, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times Colonist.  The Globe and Mail backfile coverage starts in 1977.

Offers access to full-text content from several major publications including Consumer Reports, Canadian Geographic, Maclean's, Time and many more.  It also includes full text biographies and a collection of photos, maps and flags.  

This bilingual online resource offers historical content about Canada from the first European settlers to the early 20th century. This includes digitized books, magazines and government documents and spans 21 languages.

Popular and classic French-language eBooks and Canadian audiobooks. Compatible with most devices. The app Cantook  requires iOS 14 or higher.

CBC Corner - Discover the best Canadian shows, stories & more

Developed specifically for public libraries, CBC Corner is a digital portal that brings together the wide

variety of CBC and Radio-Canada digital content and resources into a single experience

This one-of-a-kind digital portal allows you to access a wide variety of content including

trusted news, local stories, entertaining TV and radio shows, award-winning podcasts,

educational kids content, innovative podcasts, a free English and French language

learning app, news in foreign languages, and much more!

Le Centre de documentation du Canada offre désormais accès en ligne à cinq ouvrages que nous avons actuellement dans notre collection imprimée : 

• Répertoire et almanach canadien

La section de l’almanach en ligne comporte ses propres pages et est consultable, tout comme le répertoire.

• Associations du Canada

L’introduction n’est disponible qu’en format PDF; le reste du contenu peut être trouvé à partir du champ de recherche.

• Guide parlementaire canadien

L’introduction n’est disponible qu’en format PDF; le reste du contenu peut être trouvé à partir de divers onglets.

• Canadian Who’s Who

L’accès en ligne comprend sa propre fenêtre de recherche. Il suffit de cliquer sur le titre pour y être dirigé :

• FP Survey Predecessor & Defunct

Il ne peut pas être consulté à partir du champ de recherche, mais une version PDF du livre est disponible.

Cet accès en ligne n’est valable que pour une licence d’utilisation. Si vous n’arrivez pas à ouvrir une session, veuillez réessayer plus tard.

Riche de quelque 800 000 références, ChoixMédia recense chaque année de 40 000 titres en langue française, dans tous les domaines et pour tous les publics, sur de multiples supports (livres, DVD, disques compacts, logiciels, etc). ChoixMédia se démarque par l’analyse qualitative qu’il fait de chaque ouvrage : un résumé en détaille le contenu et un indice d’évaluation établit son public cible et sa valeur ou utilité.

ConsumerReports.org provides unbiased ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice from expert Consumer Reports’ testers for thousands of products and services such as cars, electronics, appliances, and more. Frequently updated articles, blogs and video content allow consumers to find the latest consumer news — such as product recalls.

Articles from the CR current issue, archives from 2012 to 2022,  and a five-year Index are all available.

Learn how to paint, knit, sew, and much more. Creativebug offers thousands of award-winning arts & crafts free video classes and workshops. They are all taught by recognized design experts and artists.

Categories include Knitting, Crochet, Art & Design, Paper, Sewing, Quilting, Jewelry, Kids, Food & Home, Holiday & Party, and include beginner and advanced classes.

Videos are completely ad-free. All have public performance rights and can be used by library programs to broadcast virtual Craft-A-Longs via Zoom, Facebook Live, YouTube, etc. Creativebug adds a minimum of 35 pieces of new content a month.

You can create an account using your email address.

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. 

Use the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online to review the lives and achievements of individuals who played important roles in the formation of Canada.  This major research and publishing project was launched by the University of Toronto and the Université Laval in 1959, and currently covers persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930, or whose last known date of significant activity falls within these years.

Short animations in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, and Russian, amongst other languages, with complementary texts to learn about scientific concepts. 

Articles include maps, photos, illustrations, diagrams, audio clips, statistics, links to related information and citation information. Icons also direct users to a photo gallery, list of activities and web links. Subject areas include people, plants and animals, places, history and government, science and mathematics, arts, world religions, and sports and hobbies.

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. About 20 small Ontario dailies are also included among other French and English language newspapers from across Canada.

A collection of popular English fiction and nonfiction eBooks and audiobooks with a seven day loan period. Requests are not permitted.

FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history.

Ottawa Public Library is now a FamilySearch Affiliate Library, this designation means library clients will now have greater and more convenient access to the wealth of genealogical resources available through FamilySearch at our 33 branches.

Benefits of an Affiliate Library

• Due to contractual obligations, some images are only viewable online through FamilySearch centers and Affiliate Libraries
• Through the affiliate program, OPL customers have access to over 350 million additional records that are otherwise restricted

This resource is available for in-library use only.

Please note that each individual client must log into FamilySearch using their own unique username and password. There is no institutional login. 

Access today's edition of popular magazine titles including Maclean's, Scientific American, Time, People, and others.

A collection of popular fiction and nonfiction eAudio in French for all ages.

Nearly 15,000 journals with full-text and indexed articles on a wide range of academic subjects with strengths in the physical sciences, technology, social sciences, the arts, business, literature and more.  A wide range of limiters provide options for peer-reviewed, full-text articles, many as far back as 1980.

This collection of reference eBooks -- the kind of reliable, in-depth material once in a printed reference collection -- gives full-text access to thousands of articles on a wide variety of topics. Users can search topics within a single reference book or within the entire collection of books.  Some sample titles are: Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Business Plans Handbooks (44 volumes of full-text business plans), World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, Encyclopaedia Judaica, and Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, & Addictive Behavior.

Gale OneFile: Business provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on the state-of-the-art Gale OneFile platform.

Ideal for business schools and entrepreneurs, Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 600 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals on general topics and specific business & Economics and  Small Business topics, including Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, and more.  

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. Includes baptism and death certificates (1621-1849), the Fond Drouin registries from 1621 to 1967, and marriage and death certificates (1926-1997). Many digital documents are also available, such as notarized contracts, post cards, censuses, etc.

This product is limited to 10 simultaneous users. Please log in to PRDH separately if you would like to use materials linked to both databases.

This digitized version of The Globe and Mail includes all of the newspapers' sections, images, classifieds, advertisements, births, deaths, political cartoons and more for the dates covered.   Users can browse by date or perform a keyword search.

Grant Connect is a fundraising platform that connects charities with funders who share their cause. Find new prospects by searching comprehensive data managed by the expert research team.With Grant Connect, you have access to:

• Over 11,000 Canadian foundations, 560 corporate giving programs, 370 government grant programs, 120 American foundations, and 200 other kinds of grant opportunities.
• Funder profiles that offer insights on specific grant programs, application preferences, financial summaries, and key decision-makers, and more.
• Data on billions of dollars in past donations, categorized by size, cause, population, and region.
• Targeted search filters that help you quickly find the right funder for your charity by gift size, deadline, type of support, and more.”

The Hilltimes.com – Canada’s political and government news service

Customers can access PDF versions of Ottawa's own twice-weekly newspaper, as well as previous, achieved issues back to 2004, or download and print a copy.  They can also search articles dating back to 1989, and access PDF versions of the Embassy Archives from 2004 to 2016. The Hill Times absorbed Embassy magazine and doubled its print edition to be twice-a-week starting from April 2016.

In addition to the digital edition of the Hill Times, there will be full access to HillTimes.com for daily updated breaking exclusive stories and in-depth articles about the people, the policies, and the politics that make the news. Enjoy a diversity of opinions and points of view, from various political angles.

Both In-library and unlimited simultaneous remote access from home are available.

The Hill Times is independently owned and based in Ottawa. Their website states that they are independent and non-partisan. Articles are written by well-respected journalists.

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. There is a variety of genres to choose from, with something for all ages. Let's be connected, inspired, and entertained together every day!

• The collection is not permanent – titles get pulled and new content is added all the time.
• Customers can stream or temporarily download up to 6 titles per month per card. The download feature is available exclusively on mobile devices, through the app.
• The borrowing period for movie and TV content is between 48-72 hours (2-3 days), music albums (considered as one item) are  7 days, and comics collection is 21 days.
• Titles are available instantly with no holds, waitlists, or late fees.
• Borrowed titles are automatically returned following the borrowing period.
• Hoopla is accessible from your computer, laptop, or wireless device.
• Customers must register for an account with an email address and a valid OPL card number, in order to access the service.
• The data used to stream Hoopla from the Internet at home or from your mobile device will count towards your Internet service provider’s monthly bandwidth cap. Watching a regular-length movie uses about 1GB of data for each stream of standard definition video. Streaming an album uses about 35 MB of data.
   

Over 8,092 fun and informative video and audio titles featuring Berenstain Bears, Franklin the Turtle, Wild Kratts and many more.  Subject areas include arts, music, animals, sports, hobbies, math, science and reading.  More than 430 educational interactives are also available.

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.  

Starting on November 1, 2023, each client will have 12 tickets per month to watch films on Kanopy. Kanopy Kids is not included in the ticket system, and you can access its content without using any tickets

• With this update, Next to the play button, clients will see how many tickets a title will use and how long they will have access to it before pressing play. 
• Episodic content will be labeled so clients know they are getting an entire bingeable season for the ticket value.
• Ticket-free content, including titles in Kanopy Kids, will be labeled as 0 tickets

A database designed to help improve writing, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, reading comprehension, and math skills at the elementary (grade 4), secondary, college and university level.  Practice and prepare for exams like the TOEFL, GED, SAT, LSAT, MCAT, GRE, and GMAT.Contains tools and resources for career development; including job search and networking, resume writing, cover letters, and interview techniques and tips. Over 150 e-books to assist in the learning experience.

Indexes periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings in the field of librarianship.

LinkedIn Learning for Library is an upgrade to the previous Lynda Library product, providing continued lifelong learning opportunities for all of our Clients. 

Over 16,000 video tutorial courses led by experts in Business, Creative, and Technology. Some tutorials are available in English, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Customers will now have access to the following:

1. Engaging content for every customer, with over 16,000 courses in 7 different languages
2. A simple, time-saving login flow for customers that only requires a library card number and PIN, without the need for a LinkedIn profile
3. An updated, easy-to-use, intuitive interface
4. Previous course history from Lynda.com

Canada's national current affairs magazine.  Coverage includes news, social issues, politics, business, sports, health, education, arts and entertainment.  

Mango Languages offers 40 online language learning courses for English speakers and 15 English courses for non-English speakers. Each course has 100 lessons. In each lesson, the students see text and hear dialog that they are invited to repeat.

Mauril is a new, free digital platform to help clients learn English and French.

• 100% Canadian French and English
• Exercises designed for all levels
• Progress at your own pace 
• A wide range of stimulating, entertaining , and captivating content from CBC/Radio-Canada
• Improve oral comprehension and integrate language knowledge in everyday life 
• Feel more confident using French or English in any context 

Getting started with Mauril is easy. Download the app on Apple and Android mobile phones and tablets, or use the website version. Simply create a profile and access your learning journey from any device, whenever and wherever you wish!

The platform is called Mauril to pay tribute to the Honourable Mauril Bélanger, the former Ottawa-Vanier MP who championed official languages in Canada. It is financed and endorsed by the Government of Canada, this new tool is designed and deployed by CBC/Radio-Canada, in collaboration with a committee of pedagogical experts..

The world's premier resource for classical music videos, it gives you unlimited and simultaneous access to stunning live events streamed every year from the world’s most prestigious venues. Plus, it offers thousands of concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes, and many more films from the 1940s through to the present day. Available on all digital devices anytime, anywhere.

MyHeritage Library Edition™ contains billions of historical documents from more than 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources. Available in 40 languages, it is the largest, most internationally diverse family history research database in the world. 

Users can access MyHeritage Library Edition either at the library or from the comfort of home via built-in remote access

Offers streaming access to over 1 million tracks of classical music. Can be accessed from any computer, anywhere, anytime with your library card.  Also features an app that can be used on iPhones, iPads and Android devices.

This product is limited to 20 simultaneous users. If you have trouble logging on you may wish to try again later. 

 In order to properly end a session and free up a user count, please click on the Log-Out button. 

This includes a mix of jazz legends and contemporary jazz and can be accessed from any computer, anywhere, anytime.  You can also listen to this resource through the Naxos Music Library app for iPhones, iPads and Android devices.  Please note that Naxos Music Library Jazz is limited to 20 concurrent users.

In order to properly end a session and free up a user count, please click on the Log-Out button. 

Naxos Music Library World offers a wide range of music, from legendary historical musical performances to contemporary world music. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented, over 1.500 cultural groups represented, and music from over 150 countries. Enjoy the complete Smithsonian Folkways catalogue as well as many other renonwed labels.

This product is limited to 5 simultaneous users. If you have trouble logging on you may wish to try again later.

In order to properly end a session and free up a user count, please click on the Log-Out button. 

Naxos MusicBox is a brand new carefully produced and beautifully presented music resource for children. 

Naxos MusicBox is an educational tool. It offers friendly, informative written texts, colourful and clear design, and tailored playlists of over 4,000 audio tracks. Selections are presented in logical and engaging ways with lessons and examples. This is not merely a streaming platform; it is intended to enhance the music education of children aged 4–12. 

The website is based predominantly on classical music and there are numerous interactive activities included (e.g. multiple-choice listening questions that children can answer online). There are also specific activities for teachers to work through in a classroom. The site will be continually updated and expanded. 

Unlimited simultaneous access is available. Instead of using your own library card and PIN to log in, please use the user name and PIN provided below to login to Naxos Musicbox.

Listen to the world's literature! Access the complete catalogue of critically acclaimed Naxos audiobooks, with transcriptions available for English language learning. Categories for Children's Classics, Classic Fiction, and Shakespeare's plays. New titles are added monthly. 

This product is limited to 5 simultaneous users. If you have trouble logging on you may wish to try again later.

In order to properly end a session and free up a user count, please click on the red Log-Out button. 

See the world's greatest operas, ballets, orchestras and artists on demand. See performances by legendary artists like Placido Domingo, Claudio Abbado, Luciano Pavarotti, Martha Argerich and Herbert von Karajan. The collection includes more than 2,500 full-length videos.

• Maximum concurrent users is five. If you can't log in, try again later.
• Make sure to click on the red logout button to close your session and make way for another user.

The Naxos Works Database is your online catalog of classical pieces accompanied by a wealth of data such as duration, instruments, publisher and introduction to the pieces. With more than 26,000 pieces and more added daily, it is your gateway to the world of classical music.

• Only one user can log in at a time. If you can't log in, try again later.
• Make sure to click on the red logout button to close your session and make way for another user.

Understand the world. Navigate life. Access The New York Times here.

Whether you’re managing finances, tackling tough parenting problems, or simply looking to make sense of this moment, rely on our original, quality journalism to lead the way.

Enjoy access to The New York Times, compliments of Ottawa Public Library.

It’s an essential source for fearless reporting, varied perspectives, and practical advice on nearly every topic — from the vital issues shaping our world to the simple pleasures that make everyday life better.

Start Exploring Today

Please note:

• You must create a New York Times account to access. 
• An email address is required
• There is a daily limit on how many remote passes are available.
• Access does not include the New York Times crossword puzzle and e-reader editions. 
• If you get a subscription notice while browsing the site, please ignore. 

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).

These 5,800 films including documentaries, animation, and interactive resources are 99% Canadian content in English and in French. They provide a focus on Canadian content and ready-made curated channels and playlists on a variety of topics, including children’s movies, Indigenous cinema, Indigenous voices, and reconciliation.

Campus User Guide

NoveList K-8 Plus is a trusted source of read-alike recommendations specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.

Looking for your next book? Want to find more authors like your favorites? NoveList Plus has all your reading answers. Find books that match your interests, read-alikes for your favorite titles and authors, or ready-made book lists on your favorite genres. With NoveList Plus you'll fill up your to-read list in no time!

All catalogue features are available via OPL's free apps:

• Search for items and use geo-locator to find the closest location
• Manage your account, renew items, place holds and view what you have checked out
• Browse recent arrivals and read what others are saying

A searchable archive of 30 days which is part of the database Library PressDisplay.  Articles can be translated into German, Greek, Spanish or French. The viewer can also listen to individual articles in any of these languages. To access articles published more than 30 days ago, search the Canadian Newsstand database.

This digitized full-images archives of the Ottawa Citizen provides genealogists, researchers and general public with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. 

This will allow Ottawans to digitally travel back through the centuries to become eyewitnesses to our local history.

Coverage is from 1845 to 2010, but you can access more recent full text content from September 1985 until now from Canadian Major Dailies ProQuest (Formerly Canadian Newsstand).

eBooks and downloadable audiobooks. Compatible with most devices. Includes Libby, the newer library reading app by OverDrive.

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.

600,000 words … 3.5 million quotations … over 1000 years of English

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English language in the world. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll not only find present-day meanings in the OED, but also you’ll find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3.5 million quotations, over 100 years of English.

Every three months the OED Online database is updated.

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. 

Please log in to Genealogy Quebec separately if you would like to use materials linked to both databases.

Provides access to today’s newspapers and magazines from all over the world.  Advanced features allow automated translation as well the ability to listen to articles.  Canadian newspaper titles include the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe and Mail, National Post, Le Devoir, Le Journal de Montréal, and Toronto Star. Internationally you can read USA Today, The Wall Street Journal (USA), The Guardian (United Kingdom), Le Figaro (France), Izvestia (Russia) and Der Tagesspiegel (Germany).  Popular magazines include Canadian Geographic, Maximum PC and Canada’s Style at Home.

Pronunciator is unique in offering personalized courses in any of 163 languages, and instruction in any of 144 home languages, ESL courses, audio lessons, American and Mexican Sign Languages. Pronunciator also includes ProCitizen, comprehensive preparation for the Canadian citizenship test. Users have unlimited, simultaneous, remote access.

Note:

Through the “Learning Guides and More” section in American English or Canadian English, respectively to access ProCitizen : US or ProCitizen: Canada

• ProCitizen: Canada! With over 100 instructional videos, and over 500 practice questions, this course provides a comprehensive preparation for the Canadian Citizenship Test. Topics include Rights and Responsibilities; Canada's History; How Canadians Govern Themselves; Federal Elections; the Justice System; Canadian Symbols; Canada's Economy; Canada's Regions; and the Oath of Citizenship.

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

Canadian White Pages: 11 million Canadian households. Records are 100% publicly sourced to comply with Canadian privacy laws.

The Road to IELTS - Academic module provides an introduction, advice and tutorials, as well as interactive practices and simulated mock tests. These will help people prepare for the IELTS academic exam for higher education or professional registration in an English-speaking environment.   

See the IELTS Academic syllabus for detailed information.

The OPL also offers the IELTS General Training Module.

The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is the world’s most popular English language test for higher education and global migration. 

There are two types of IELTS test: the IELTS Academic and the IELTS General Training.

Both tests provide an assessment of four language skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.

The IELTS Academic measures whether your level of English language proficiency is suitable for an academic environment or professional registration. It reflects aspects of academic language and assesses whether you’re ready to begin studying or training.

The Road to IELTS- General Training module provides an introduction, advice and tutorial, as well as interactive practices and simulated mock tests. These will help people prepare General Training test for immigration, secondary education, work experience or training programs in English speaking countries.

You can run the program on mobile as well as tablet, desktop and laptop. 

See the IELTS General Training syllabus for detailed information.

OPL also offers the Academic Module.

The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is the world’s most popular English language test for higher education and global migration purposes. 

There are two types of IELTS test: the IELTS Academic and IELTS General Training.

Both tests provide an assessment of four language skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.

The IELTS General Training measures English language proficiency in a practical, everyday context. The test focuses on basic survival skills in broad social and workplace contexts.

The IELTS is also a requirement for migration to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. 

SOLARO is an online study resource. It takes a proactive approach to student’s education by continuing the learning process outside of school hours to supplement what students learn at school.

Students can access full sets of lessons covering core concepts, use building tools such as study notes and flash cards. Practice with quizzes and tests to identify strengths and weaknesses and review detailed solutions to every completed practice question.

All learning content and subjects (English, Mathematics, Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics) from Grade 3 to Grade 12 are aligned to the Ontario Curriculum.

Students have unlimited simultaneous access to this resource anytime, anywhere, and on all digital devices.

A collection of Graphic Novels, eBooks, classic literature, National Geographic videos, educator resources and audiobooks, perfect for middle school and high school students. It features adjustable online text and complete audio narration. Sentences are highlighted as they are being read and the pages turn automatically. These read along books are great for reluctant readers and also help ESL students develop language skills.All of our students and customers will have unlimited access to this fantastic collection.

ESL program that helps students improve their reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary and grammar skills in five levels.

Free and unlimited online courses in French. Learn languages, sewing, singing, coding for kids, watch documentary films, and more! Find audiobooks, BD (graphic novels), as well as games such as sudoku and crossword puzzles.  

Collection of online books created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books from major children's book publishers and designed to develop a love of reading in children.  The books can be read by parents to their children or read by a child.  Games, quizzes and other activities are included to help develop reading skills.  TumbleBookLibrary can be used in English, French and Spanish.

TumbleMath is a comprehensive collection of online math, story and picture books that includes full narration and animation. Lesson plans and quizzes are available and specifically written to address math standards.

TVO Learn is a free online digital learning environment that offers comprehensive resources to support learning  for both Elementary (K-8) and Secondary (9-12) students.

TVO Learn resources are created or curated by Ontario Certified Teachers and go through equity and inclusion reviews by curriculum and subject-matter specialists. All content aligns with the K-12 Ontario curriculum. Learning materials are designed in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. TVO Learn is approved by the Ontario Ministry of Education.

Free 1:1 online math tutoring with Ontario Certified Teachers is available for Ontario students in Grade 4-12.

Students can use TVO Learn Mathify for homework help in math, preparing for math tests, clarifying math concepts, and more.

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