Find books

Catalogue - The 'card catalogue' listing over 100,000 books and magazines available in South Shore Public Libraries' branches.

Digital catalogue -
Downloadable e-books and audiobooks available online.

General reference sources

Canadian Encyclopedia

Canadian Encyclopedia the authority on all things Canadian for more than 20 years.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online -

Explore the history of Canada's inhabitants and their culture.

Canadiana.org - Investigate Canada's documentary heritage content online.

E-Stat - With E-STAT you can generate dynamic tables, customize graphs and maps using Statistics Canada's Census of Population and socioeconomic data. Accessible from library computers only.

Health information

Cochrane Library - The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including reliable evidence. It brings you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and is recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.

Travel and maps

Global Road Warrior - Deep content coverage in major topic areas of society and culture, travel, communications, business, trade, marketing, and security for 175 countries.

AtoZ Maps Online -

a collection of political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps, with new maps added each month.

Genealogy

Ancestry Library Edition - an extensive online database of genealogical information; please note that Ancestry Library Edition can only be accessed using library computers.