This page provides easy access to some of the more commonly used WWW links for residents of Blue Quill and the City of Edmonton.

If you find a link worth knowing about, please let us know!

Recreation

Entertainment

Edmonton Movie Guide - Find out where and when a movie is playing
Edmonton Folk Festival
Edmonton Fringe
Discover Edmonton - A really good website for all things Edmonton
Variety - The on-line version of the world-famous show-biz daily
Movie Database - Arguably the largest movie database on the internet
Movie Reviews - A searchable archive of over 6,500 brief, incisive film reviews
Great Books - Perhaps the best novels published in the English language since 1900
Wine Guide - What's a good book without a glass of wine?

Transportation

Education

EPSB Schools - Links to Edmonton Public schools with home pages
EPSB - The Edmonton Public School Board
ECS - The Edmonton Catholic School Board
U of A - University of Alberta
NAIT - Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
GMCC - Grant MacEwan Community College
Athabasca University - Canada's open university
King's College - Edmonton's Christian university college
Lesson Plans - Free lesson plans for teachers from New York Times Learning Network
SchoolNet - Facilitating excellence in learning through networking across Canada

Sports

Communication

Government

City of Edmonton - Everything you ever wanted to know about our city
Ward 5 Councilor Brian Anderson
Province of Alberta - Find out what's going on under the dome
Alberta Progressive Conservatives
Alberta New Democrats
Alberta Liberal Party
Alberta Alliance
Government of Canada - Your jumping-off point to 1001 GOC sites

Media

Global TV
CFRN-TV
A-Channel
CBC - Canada's public broadcasting service
Canadian On-line Explorer - If you'd rather get your news on-line, you can't beat this site!
Access TV - Access Television
A&E - The Arts and Entertainment Channel
Discovery Channel Canada - Broaden your horizons
630 CHED
The Globe and Mail - Find out what Toronto is thinking
Canadian Geographic - Worth a look, but very little on-line content
Maclean's Magazine - Canada's weekly magazine

Reference

Canadiana - The Canadian Resource Page
Postal codes - Look up that postal code using Canada Post's on-line service
Canadian Internet Switchboard - Thousands of neatly catagorized links
MapQuest - If you need directions, you need MapQuest!
Dictionaries - Not a Canadian site, but too cool (and useful) to ignore
DICT Dictionary - Search a whole lot of dictionaries at once
Ask Oxford - For those who look to the OED to define English and its use
NIST Time - In case you need the current time to the nearest billionth of a second
World Time - Find the current time in major cities around the world
Learn2 - Amazing site that will teach you something about almost anything
Whatis - The IT-specific encyclopedia
Bartleby - Search the Columbia encyclopedia, Bartlett's quotations, and much more
Visual Thesaurus - And you thought a thesaurus was boring
Translation Service - Alta Vista's handy translation service
Consumers Reports - A pay site, of course, but well worth the money
Great Speeches - Clips of some of this century's most memorable speeches
Telephone listings - Info Space has the most complete Canadian listings by far
Telephone Directories - The best list of on-line directories anywhere
Biographical Dictionary - Over 28,000 capsule biographies
Postal codes - Look up that postal code using Canada Post's on-line service
Information Please - An almanac, encyclopedia, and dictionary--and all free!
Voycabulary - Too many $5 dollar words on a website? Voycabulary can help!
Infonation - An in-depth statistical look at every member country of the U.N.
Web Math - Instant solutions to virtually any math question--every student's dream!
Nobel Channel - Extraordinary site featuring Nobel winners and their accomplishments
Library of Congress - Now that's a big collection
Worst Case - Learn how to escape from quicksand, and other worst-case scenarios
Guiness Book of World Records - People will do almost anything to get in this book

Health and Medicine

Animal Hospital - Paging Dr. Dawg! Pet behavior resources and a handy Q&A section
Mayo Clinic - Got a medical question? Maybe the Mayo Clinic can help.
RxTV - Regularly updated health stories, including RealVideo clips

Science and Nature

Edmonton Odyssium - Our own science jewel
ScienceNet - Real scientists answer your questions
Popular Science top 50 - The top science and technology sites from Popular Science
How Stuff Works - Learn how things work in the world around you
Ocean Realm - A very splashy PBS site. Very cool.
Solar System Simulator - Another mind-blowing site from NASA
Biology - An online interactive resource for learning biology from the U. of Arizona
The Human Body T- ake a Shockwave tour through the human body
Exploratorium - Sites don't get any better than San Francisco's famous Exploratorium
World Population - Can you say "6 billion?"
Science A Go Go - Science with knobs on!
Fear of Physics - Physics for mere mortals, with lots of interactive bits
Roller Coaster - Here's your chance to design your own ride
Bizarre Stuff You Can Make in the Kitchen - Science experiments in your own home
Wacky Uses - Discover little know uses for everyday products

Museums and History

Virtual Museum If it's a museum in Canada, you'll find it on this site
Canadian Museum of Civilization Prepare to be amazed by this awesome site
National Gallery of Canada You've GOT to take the virtual tour
Provincial Museum of Alberta Like a certain TV station, it's ours
Class: Insecta Visit the Spencer Entomology Museum at UBC
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century Interesting facts about the past 100 years
History Wired rarely seen objects from the National Museum of American History
Tower of London Jewels and ghouls
HistoryWorld Make history make sense
Turbulent Times An excellent PBS series on important events of the past century

Finance

Canadian On-line Explorer - The best Canadian market site we've found
GLOBE Fund - The Globe and Mail's most excellent mutual fund site
Yahoo - The best market site of all, includes Canadian issues, and has great charts
Money Advisor - Financial calculators and other neat stuff
Exchange Rates - Bank of Canada exchange rates for the previous ten years
Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency - Love them or hate them ...
KPMG Tax Online - A wealth of timely financial information for Canadians
The Universal Currency Converter - Convert from/to almost any currency in the world
Retireweb - Everything you ever wanted to know about retirement

Weather

The Weather Office - Edmonton weather, and the rest of the world too!