This guide offers a selection of sites for those looking for ready reference or quick information, such as: definitions, quotations, telephone numbers and abbreviations.

• Atlases & Maps
• Biographies
• Calculators
• Dictionaries

• Directories
• Encyclopedias
• Handbooks
• Internet Searching & Directories
• Transportation & Weather

Atlases & Maps

Biographies

• The Canadian Atlas Online
• Google Maps
• National Geographic: Xpeditions Atlas
• Perry Castaneda Collection: Map-Related Web Sites
• National Atlas of Canada Online
• Canadian Geographical Names

• Biography.com
• Nobel Prize Internet Archive

Calculators

• Online Calculator
• Martindale's Calculators

Dictionaries

Directories

• Oxford English Dictionary (available only to Kwantlen community)
• Acronym Server
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary & Thesaurus
• OneLook Dictionaries
• Oxford Reference Online (available only to Kwantlen community)
• Roget's Thesaurus II
• Webster's Online Dictionary: Rosetta Edition
• yourDictionary.com

• AnyWho Online Directory
• myTelus Phone Book
• Canada Post
• Switchboard.com
• Information Services Vancouver: Red Book
• International Calling Codes
• Canada 411
• infobel.com
• USPS Address and Zip Code Information
• Infospace

Encyclopedias

Handbooks & Almanacs

• Canadian Encyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• CIA World Factbook
• Encyclopedia of British Columbia (available only to Kwantlen community)
• Oxford Guide to Countries of the World (available only to Kwantlen community)
• Wikipedia - 7 things you should know about Wikipedia before you use it as a source
• World Encyclopedia (available only to Kwantlen community)

Transportation & Weather

• BC Ferries
• BC Transit Online
• Drive BC Traveller Information System
• VIA Rail Canada
• Environment Canada
• Translink

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• The World Factbook
• The Nobel Foundation
• The Pulitzer Prizes
• NIST Physical Reference Data
• Old Farmer's Almanac
• Rulers of the World
• XE.com: The Universal Currency Converter
• Unit Converter
• Holidays & Festivals

Internet Searching & Directories

• Ask.com
• dmoz - Open Directory Project
• Google
• Google Scholar
• Yahoo