MMPL no longer offer Mango languages. Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause users.
Duolingo is a fun, free app – very user friendly and effective for learning languages. Try it!
Find your next great reads with NoveList!
Know a book you loved and not sure what to read next? NoveList recommends books similar to ones you’ve enjoyed, or will help you find a new book to match your mood.
Login with your library card. So many read-alike recommendations, for all ages!
Tutorial (video): how to use NoveList (Thank you, Perth Union Library staff!)
Our Ontario.ca
Search across hundreds of sites in seconds.
Our Digital World and Our Ontario are the result of widespread consultations between the Ontario Library Association (OLA) and provincial stakeholders representing Ontario’s public libraries, colleges, universities, public schools, and government ministries.
Our Digital World
Dozens and dozens of partners’ digital collections across Ontario – community newspapers, oral histories, a Women’s Institutes portal, a Great Lakes Ships Database, museum collections, photo archives and more.
TPL free archive
Photos, maps, manuscripts, digitized books, primary source material & more from Toronto Public Library
CBC Corner English & French
Discover the best Canadian shows, stories & podcasts- including educational kids content, news in foreign languages and much more!
Try Mauril, CBC’s free language learning app too
“Best Apps” ideas
Your library suggests a few useful apps: Find my Phone • Duo Lingo • Plant Snap • Lumosity • Merlin Bird ID • more
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Browse this awesome resource! To view the 100 biographies most frequently read in English or in French, click on the language of your choice.
Visit the entries for local “celebs” Dr. James Naismith & R. Tait McKenzie. Enjoy!
The Canadian Encyclopedia
The Canadian Encyclopedia is a fact-checked information source published by Historica Canada. Search over 14,000 available articles on numerous subjects including history, popular culture, events, people, places, politics, arts, First Nations, sports and science. Articles are published in French and English.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.