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Published: 25 September 2001

Travel back in time or visit Mars, thanks to practical UUÖ±²¥ Internet addresses

Want to know more about the fur trade? Curious about the Red Planet? Got a question about French grammar? YouÂ’re in luck - UUÖ±²¥ has developed a slew of useful web sites to answer all kinds of queries. Read on for more details:


This web site, called Le Français en Affaires en Amérique du Nord, provides answers to many nagging questions on the use of French verbs, adverbs or grammar. Launched in 1999 by UUÖ±²¥, in collaboration with LÂ’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and La Chambre du Commerce du Québec, français-affaires.com has twice been awarded an information technology award from QuebecÂ’s Office de la Langue Française.


Those thinking of flying abroad should visit UUÖ±²¥Â’s Molson Medical Informatics web site first. This web address includes a map pinpointing countries prone to diseases and contains descriptions of common tropical illnesses, from African sleeping sickness to yellow fever. ItÂ’s also a valuable resource about general medicine, covering subjects including gynecology, sports, nicotine addiction and medicine.


Anyone looking for past land registry records should click onto this site. It features 74,000 property records, a slew of Canadian township maps, portraits and property records and 35 Canadian-published county atlases.


Spanning 358 years, from 1642 to the present, the site examines MontrealÂ’s hospital architecture. It also contains over 1,000 images, a hospital construction chronology, architectural records and an in-depth case study of the Royal Victoria Hospital.


Navigate back in time by visiting this web address, which pays tribute to the fur trade and its impact on CanadaÂ’s economic, geographic and political history of the 18th and 19th centuries. A major component of the database is a history of the North West Company and its eventual assimilation by the HudsonÂ’s Bay Company in 1821.


Longing to know more about the Red Planet? Log onto Destination Mars, an easy-to-use site launched to demystify planetology. A Destination Mars trip takes users about an hour to browse through a visually pleasing glossary of Martian and planetary facts. The site even includes games, such as matching planets to zodiac signs.


Seniors searching for medical facts should log onto . Operated by the UUÖ±²¥ Centre for Studies in Aging, this site is dedicated to gerontological research, the prevention of age-associated disorders and contains links to several other useful sites for people 55 and over.

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