Online Collections A-Z

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Limnology – Online Exhibit

Category:Local History, Museum Online Exhibits

Discover the hidden world of The Blue Mountains' lakes, rivers, and wetlands. Explore the science of limnology and learn about the region's diverse…

LinkedIn Learning

Category:Business, Computers, Featured, Online Learning

LinkedIn Learning is an online learning site that hosts a constantly growing library of over 7,000 courses that include over 130,000 videos. Courses cover…

A black and white photograph of a white women sitting reading a book. Her hair is pulled back and she is wearing a long sleeved black dress with white lace ruffles around the collar of the dress.

Literary Women - Online Exhibit

Category:Local History, Museum Online Exhibits

Literary Women of The Blue Mountains is an evolving biographical resource of English-language women writers who published before 2000. …

Make a Natural Heritage Map

Category:Canadian History, Environment

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) has a web application you can use to make a custom map of the following natural heritage areas in…

Mango Languages Online Language Learning

Category:Featured, Languages, Online Learning

Mango offers access to 60 foreign language courses and 17 English courses as well as American Sign Language. Each lesson combines real life…

McMaster Optimal Aging Portal

Category:Health

The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal offers direct and easy access to evidence-based information about how to stay healthy, active and engaged, and how to…

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Category:Encyclopedia & Dictionaries

English dictionary, thesaurus, and word games.

In a black lowercase font is the text "mind your mind". To the left of the text is a red outline of a circle with a red horizontal line below it.

Mind Your Mind

Category:Mental Health

Mind Your Mind exists in the space where mental health, wellness, engagement and technology meet. They work with young people aged 14 to 29 to co-create…

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

Category:Indigenous Resources

Search records online, view interactive map of hearings, events, and residential schools over time. Includes information for educators, researchers,…

NCCIE: National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education

Category:Indigenous Resources

Over 80 lesson plans, over 70 videos and documentary films, and over 600 stories about Indigenous education initiatives and programs from across…

Newcomer Information Grey Bruce

Category:Community Links

This virtual library is for newcomers, service providers, volunteers and general public to access information and resources continues to be a valued…

A hand drawn dark curving line that represents the silhouette of the Niagara Escarpment. In the middle of the page the image the artist has written THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT, the letter I in Niagara is made using the curving silhouette of the Escarpment.

Niagara Escarpment - Online Exhibit

Category:Local History, Museum Online Exhibits

The Niagara Escarpment is a unique geological feature that runs through The Town of The Blue Mountains area in Ontario, Canada. Many ferns and orchids…

Novelist K-8 Plus

Category:Books & Reading, Homework Help K-8

Novelist K-8  Find books children enjoy. Full-text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many title…

Novelist Plus

Category:Books & Reading

Novelist Find your next great read. Very helpful for bookclubs. Allows you to search for additional titles based on level, subject, title or author.…

Ontario Genealogical Society

Category:Canadian History, Genealogy

Mission: to encourage, bring together and assist those interested in the pursuit of family history and to preserve our Ontario genealogical heritage.…

Ontario History

Category:Canadian History, Local History

Back issues of Papers and Records from 1899 through 1915 are now in the public domain. These include over 2000 pages of rare documentary sources…

Ontario Land Registry Access

Category:Canadian History

Search Ontario Land Property Records OnLand is your online information source from the Ontario Land Registration and Writs system. This channel gives…

Ontario Ministry of Labour

Category:Government, Law

Health and safety guidelines and regulations. 

Our Military Heritage : Veterans' stories connected to The Town of The Blue Mountains and more

Category:Canadian History, Local History, Museum Online Exhibits

The military heritage of the The Blue Mountains shares the stories of community members involved with military service and war efforts from the 19th…

Our Ontario

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Our Ontario Find digital image, text, audio and video materials about Ontario history, heritage and culture. Search the collections of libraries,…

A pencil drawing of a white male with long flowing hair, a Van Dyke style is a type of goatee in which the chin hair is disconnected from the moustache hair. He is wearing a high collar, a dark vest and a white linen shirt.

Samuel de Champlain - Online Exhibit

Category:Canadian History, Local History, Museum Online Exhibits

Learn more about the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who traveled to visit the Tionontati (Petun) in the region now known as The Blue Mountains, in…

Service Ontario

Category:Government

Online Health card registration, birth, marriage and death certificates,driver and vehicle licensing, fishing and hunting licences, address changes,…

A photograph of a blue commemorative plaque with a gold border and text situated outdoors. The text details the history of The Craigleith Shale Oil Works in 1859. In the background behind the plaque is a snow covered ground and evergreen trees.

Shale Oil Works - Online Exhibit

Category:Local History, Museum Online Exhibits

The only successfully producing shale oil manufacturing plant in Ontario operated between 1858-1861 in the Blue Mountains.

South Georgian Bay Small Business Enterprise Centre

Category:Business, Community Links

South Georgian Bay Small Business Enterprise Centre For those looking to launch or grow a small business.  Links and resources for small…

A graphic designed image. The background is beige. In the foreground is a green townscape silhouette. Above the townscape is a yellow sun stylized as a child's drawing with a smiling face and a medical mask over it's mouth.

Staying Home Stories - Online Exhibit

Category:Local History, Museum Online Exhibits

Everyone is learning new ways to live during this time. We want to know how the pandemic has shaped our local culture.