Associations
& Organizations
www.kelownachamber.org
- The Kelowna Chamber of Commerce
www.city.kelowna.bc.ca
- City of Kelowna
www.bcmta.com
- British Columbia Marine Trades Association
www.bcyba.com
- British Columbia Yacht Brokers Association
www.scouts.ca
- Scouts Canada, National Page
www.interiorscouts.bc.ca
- Scouts Canada, Interior Region Page
www.interiorscouts.bc.ca/calendar/
- Scouts Canada, Interior Region, Events Calendar
www.kamscouts.bc.ca
- Scouts Canada, Kamloops District
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Computers
& Web Design
www.gad.ca - Global Action Designs - Web page design, virtual tours,
flash and hosting. Experts at a reasonable price!
www.northerncomputer.ca
- Northern Computer - One of the largest independent value
added resellers in BC, Canada
www.vtours.com
- VTours - Take a visual tour of Kelowna, BC Canada
www.arcticdata.com
- Arctic Data - Computer Programmers (250) 860 3282
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Finance
www.globeinvestor.com
- The Globe and Mail's free-access Web site offering
comprehensive coverage of North American stocks with company
financials, market quotes, stock price history, charts,
news, company media releases and more.
www.fortuneinvestor.com
- Fortune magazine's own investment site which offers
financial news, detailed market information, investing tools
and portfolio tracking.
www.friran.com
- The Legal Survival Network - The site from Friedman &
Ranzenhofer which provides excellent information on estate
planning.
www.money.com
- A member of Time Warner's network of sites that offers a
good selection of financial information. Features research
tools and calculators, a financial newswire and links to
articles in Money magazine.
www.quicken.com
- A top provider of financial software with a site that
offers a range of personal fianance services including
tracking the market and your investment portfolio.
www.smartmoney.com
- One of the best financial information resources on the
Web, featuring an interactive Map of the Market.
www.finance.yahoo.com
- A good place to start research on any subject related to
your net worth, with a wealth of financial and investment
information.
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Government,
Education & Institutions
www.epa.gov
- This new site overviews the impact that commercial and
recreational boating has on the water environment.
http://hpo.bc.ca/ The
Homeowner Protection Office (HPO) is a provincial Crown
corporation.
http://www.edccord.com/ Economic Development Commission for
the Regional District of Central Okanagan (EDC) aids and
bolsters the progress of a thriving local economy.
www.icbc.com
- vehicle Insurance
www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca
- The Canadian Coast Guard - National Site
www.pacific.ccg-gcc.gc.ca
- The Canadian Coast Guard - Pacific Region Site.
www.canada.gc.ca
- Information about Canada, its government and the services
they provide, including links to other government sites.
www.gov.bc.ca
- Information about BC's Provincial government and its
services.
www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca
- News releases, Federal Policing, Specialized Support
Services and more from the official site of the Mounties.
www.rcmint.ca
- Royal Canadian Mint - an overview of available products
and information about the mint.
www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/
- The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (formerly Revenue
Canada).
www.canadapost.ca
- Overview of business and residential services, including
postal code look-up.
www.uwaterloo.ca/canu/
- An excellent resource for links to Canadian universities,
colleges, technical and trade schools.
www.bctransit.com
- Schedules, route information and more.
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Home and Garden
http://www.bhg.com/ Better
Homes and Gardens
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Insurance
www.capriintercity.com
- Capri Insurance Agencies
www.icbc.com
- vehicle Insurance
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Multimedia
www.bbc.co.uk
- The British Broadcasting Co. - Listen to the latest news
in English and many other languages, view video features and
read recent news stories, often with sound clips.
cnn.com/videoselect
- Has CNN's latest 13-minute news summary available to view
as well as a menu of feature stories and popular shows.
www.gogaga.com
- GoGaGa Brand Radio - Two-year-old Internet radio station
with diverse shows like "Music for Cubicles" and
DJs.
www.liveconcerts.com
- Offers a live pop, rock, or jazz concert broadcast every
few days, all viewable with RealPlayer.
www.radiov.com
- A good selection of drum 'n' bass, trance, and ambient
music, along with industry news and advice on how to make
your own dance tracks.
www.spinner.com
- More than 100 channels of music via RealAudio streaming
technology, allowing you to hear over 150,000 musical
selections in every genre.
www.thislife.org
- One of National Public Radio's quirkier programs which
seeks out stories that most news shows would probably
ignore.
www.vwww.com -
Virtual World Wide Web - Explore more than 600 Websites with
fluid 3-D landscapes and interior spaces that you can
"move" through using your mouse and keyboard.
www.vtuner.com
- A great place to browse for online radio and TV stations.
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News,
Information & Entertainment
www.thepaperboy.com
- A searchable database of nearly every newspaper in the
world.
www.globeandmail.com
- The Globe and Mail Web Centre
www.mybc.com
- An excellent resource for the latest in local and wordly
news, business, sports, weather, lottery results,
entertainment and the arts, and even ski and snowboard
conditions throughout B.C.
http://www.mothernature.com/ Books, articles and
encyclopedia on everything natural
www.cbc.ca -
All the journalistic experience, expertise and depth of CBC
Radio, CBC Television and CBC Newsworld are delivered on
this site with audio and video, including news, sports and
more.
www.cnn.com -
Headline news, sports, business, science and the arts.
www.tvtimesonline.com
- Features complete TV listings by region - just enter your
Postal Code.
www.ticketmaster.ca
- The source for live sports and entertainment.
www.infoplease.com
- Whatever you are interested in, whether it's sports,
entertainment, history - you name it - and whether the
information is available in an almanac, dictionary,
encyclopedia, or all three - a search on this site will get
you the facts on your topic.
disney.go.com
- The website for families from Disney
www.rockhall.com
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - direct from
Cleveland, Ohio.
www.film.com
- Movie news plus reviews of the latest movie and video
releases.
www.muchmusic.com
- The Nation's Music Station online.
www.sonicnet.com
- The online music network offers live events, headline
news, video streams and more.
www.broadcast.com
- Live TV, live music, CD Jukebox and more.
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Resorts
& Accomodation
www.manteo.com
- Manteo Beach Club
Phone: (250) 860-1031
www.siestamotorinn.com
- Special rates and packages Phone:
1-800-663-4847
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Shopping
www.amazon.com
- Amazon - Online Book, CD and Video store with one-click
buying power. Also has it's own auction service, so you
never know what you may find!
www.art.com -
Art.com offers more than 100,000 reproductions of famous
paintings and photographs from a variety of genres and
periods.
www.bn.com -
Barnes and Noble Online - More than eight million titles of
books, as well as computer software, regular online chats
with authors, and a large virtual magazine rack.
www.bluefly.com
- Bluefly features large savings on end-of-season men's,
women's and children's clothing with most major designers
represented.
www.buy.com -
Buy.com features all the major brands and a good selection
of items in product categories such as computers, software,
books, games, etc.
www.wooddesign.bc.ca
- BC Furniture On-Line - The most comprehensive directory of
furniture manufacturers in British Columbia.
www.barnesandnoble.com
- Barnes and Noble's own site - Shop for your favourite
authors, or check out their selection of music, software,
magazines, etc.
www.cdnow.com
- CDNow - One of the internet's largest CD stores. Offers
CD, Tapes and Videos of your favourite artists and movies.
www.shopper.com
- CNET Shopper - A comprehensive and well-organized
directory of most makes and models of desktop and notebook
computers.
www.computerjobs.com
- A bulletin board service covering the entire U.S. that
brings together computer-oriented employers and employees.
www.net-temps.com
- "A world of Jobs neatly Packaged".
www.consumersdigest.com
- Offers a search engine that compares the prices and
features of several major types of consumer goods, including
home appliances, electronics and exercise equipment.
http://www.aso.com/i.aso/ForSale.jsp - Find your
airplane
www.cooking.com
- Cookware and food suggestions for such events as a
barbeque or an intimate dinner.
www.ebay.com
- The internet's largest online auction house. Find
everything from rare collector's items, to todays hotest
items, to the obscure.
www.garden.com
- Sells seeds, bulbs, plants, gardening tools and patio
furniture as well as providing articles to educate thier
users on the newest practices and trends.
www.reel.com
- One of the largest video stores on the net. Find
everything from the newest of releases to your old
favourites.
shopping.msn.com
- MSN Shopping is an online mall with hundreds of merchants
arranged in a search-engine-like directory.
www.worldspy.com
- A large online department store selling goods near cost,
from a a 300,000 square foot Chicago warehouse owned by UPS.
shopping.yahoo.com
- With more than 4,500 merchants in the shopping section,
surfers can choose any of 600,000 products they desire from
clothing, cameras, cds and household items to cars and even
homes
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Sites
of Interest
www.familychronicle.com
- A step-by-step guide for family researchers by people who
share their interest in genealogy and family history that is
a must for every beginner.
www.anywho.com - This
sleek little site powered by AT&T labs searches for home and
biz phones, 1-800 numbers, email addresses, web sites and
has a reverse telephone search.
www.people.yahoo.com:
One of the best email searches available. Its advanced
option lets you make searches based on domain name,
organization tag or even old email addresses.
www.startsmart.com:
A great site for those moving in or moving out! It will
transfer all of the following services ... for free: cable,
satellite, gas electric, Internet service providers, local
and long distance phone services, newspapers, magazines,
pagers and wireless phones.
www.whowhere.lycos.com: A good little phone, email and
site finder. Plus it also has a few cool specialty searches,
including a genealogy search, public records search and
celebrity search.
www.smarthome.com.
This is the place where you can find devices to water your
plants, turn on your lights, control your curtains and
drapes and almost anything else you can imagine.
www.canadaonline.de/Canada_Live/webcam.htm Great Live
web cams
http://www.aier.org/colcalc.html - Cost of Living
Calculator
www.cyndislist.com
- Over 41,700 links, categorized ad cross-referenced to help
you in your family history search.
www.archives.ca
- This bilingual site tells you how to hire a researcher and
allows you to download a useful guide titled 'Tracing Your
Ancestors in Canada'
www.rootsweb.com
- The largest of the genealogy mailing lists, with over
10,000 subscribers.
www.ptbcanadian.com
- An index of Canadian content of the Web.
www.bodybreak.com
- Information and tips on how to live a healthier, active
lifestyle.
www.phys.com
- Get answers to all your fitness and nutrition questions
plus more.
www.painted-house.com
- Tips and archived content from Debbie Travis' Painted
House TV show.
www.un.org -
The United Nations homepage contains information on
everything from international law to human rights.
www.embassyweb.com
- Links to embassy sites all around the world.
www.nasa.gov
- Planetary exploration and astronomy information, photos
and links from NASA
www.tradeport.org
- Provides information on export training modules.
contractscanada.gc.ca
- A comprehensive online resource for anyone wishing to sell
goods or services to the federal government; this site
offers information about what the government buys and how..
www.cluetrain.com
- A new look at marketing.
www.unzco.com
- A complete export handbook online.
www.oanda.com
- An excellent foreign exchange site.
www.online-chamber.com
- A list of Chambers of Commerce around the world.
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Small
Business
www.gad.ca
- Global Action Designs - Web page design, virtual tours,
and flash for your success
http://www.bdc.ca/bdc/home/ The Business Development
Bank of Canada (BDC) is Canada's small business bank.
www.iboc.gc.ca
- The International Business Oppotunities Centre (IBOC) -
Matches companies with international trade leads provided by
Canadian trade commissioners and commercial officers around
the world.
www.infoexport.gc.ca
- InfoExport - Provides tips on how to become a successful
exporter.
www.exportsource.gc.ca
- Team Canada Inc. - An extensive network of government
services covering market information, training, financial
assistance and regulations.
www.ccc.ca -
Canadian Commercial Corporation - A Crown corporation that
assistas exporters with the preparation of international bid
documents.
www.edc.ca -
Export Development Corporation - Supports Canadian exporters
with buyer financing and export insurance.
www.morebusiness.com
- Business Resource Centre - Aims to be a complete resource
centre for small companies by offering templates of
marketing plans, business agreements, and even press
releases.
www.toolkit.cch.com
- CCH Business Owner's Toolkit - Resources for small
businesses including checklists, model business plans, forms
and other documents for downloading, and offers detailed
advice for sticky situations like letting an employee go or
rejecting and applicant.
www.dtonline.com
- Deloitte & Touche Online - Accounting advice from the
giant accouting firm onn topics such as starting, expaning
and selling a business, tax-planning hints, etc.
www.entrepreneurmag.com
- The widely read magazine of small business offering a mass
of information and advice on startups, marketing plans, and
taxes.
www.ideacafe.com
- Offers tips and contacts to entrepreneurs with sections
like the "Business Directory", the Q&A Corner,
and the "CyberSchmooz" chat room.
www.lowe.org
- Entrepreneurial Edge - Offers information, research and
seminars with a collection of more than 3,000 documents
taken from government and consulting sources.
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Sports
www.docksidemarine.com
- Your source for boat rentals in the Okanagan area.
www.yachtworld.com/boats
Find your dream boat anywhere in the world
www.bigwhite.com
- Big White Ski Resort - Open Year Round
www.nhl.com -
Team links, stats, scores, news, merchandise plus more for
the diehard hockey fan.
www.nfl.com -
Check your favourite player's stats or get the latest grid
news.
www.fifa.com
- World rankings and football news (soccer for us
Canadians).
www.nba.com -
Get the latest stats, scores and basketball news.
www.bclions.com
- Player and dance team roster, team news, merchandise and
more.
www.86ers.com
- Player profiles, merchandise, club news, stats, plus
information about the 86'ers soccer development leagues.
www.orcabay.com
- Links to the Canucks, Grizzlies and event schedule for GM
Place.
www.majorleaguebaseball.com
- The latest league news, scores and stats from the majors.
www.pga.com -
Pro golf news, standings, tournament and ticket information
plus more.
www.snowlink.com
- If you like snow sports, including skiing, snowboarding,
cross country skiing or showshoeing - or you'd like to learn
- here's the place.
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Travel
www.welcometokelowna.com
- Welcome to Kelowna .com, your source for information
regarding our beautiful City.
www.royallaketours.com
- Royal Okanagan Lake Tours - Experience an Odyssey in the
sun, the most fun for everyone! For reservations &
information call (250) 764-9027
http://www.nadaguides.com/
- Your
Destination for Free Vehicle Boat Motorhome Value
Information
www.thompsonokanagan.com
- Thompson Okanagan Tourist Association
www.uniglobetravel.com
- Uniglobe Travel Agencies - In Kelowna (250) 860 0808
www.lonelyplanet.com
- A cyberversion of the Lonely Planet brand of guides for
the intrepid, politically aware, adventurous, world-trekking
traveler.
travel.americanexpress.com
- American Express Travel has last-minute deals and other
specials on an array of travel products - Alaskan cruises,
Caribbean holidays, the works.
www.biztravel.com
- Allows users to download all trip details into personal
calendars and also lets them combine factors, such as price,
schedule, and frequent-flyer miles, to find the best deal.
www.cheaptickets.com
- A good source for special-rate air deals.
travel.epicurious.com
- Features information like a beach slide show, special
topics of interest and the "Deal of the week".
www.fodors.com
- A diverse, easy-to-use site that caters to both
conventional and adventurous travelers.
www.mapquest.com
- Downloadable maps that provide terrific regional overviews
with zoom-out and zoom-in looks.
www.mapsonus.com
- Provides the best and most reliable driving directions,
with options for sticking to or avoiding the major highways.
www.michelin.com
- Provides excellent, detailed route descriptions through
maps and bulleted text lists of Europe.
www.orient-expresstrains.com
- Arrange travel by rail or boat to some of the most exotic
sites on earth.
www.priceline.com
- Offers "state your price" air fares, just name
the price for a plane ticket, and airlines can sell off
seats that would otherwise go empty.
www.tripprep.com
- Informs the international traveler about health and safety
risks and other basic concerns.
www.travelocity.com
- The search engine will find the three lowest fares
available.
www.ual.com -
United Airlines - If you request flight availabilities for a
specific date, it automatically searches its own flights
while giving you a choice of two other airlines to search.
travel.state.gov
- Stop here if you are concerned about political stability
in your country of destination, or if you simply want to
know where the U.S. embassy or consulate is.
www.turkeydreamproperty.com - Buy your dream house,
villa or apartment from us, get purchasing advice or
information online.
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Weather
www.ec.gc.ca/
- Environment Canada
www.theweathernetwork.com
- The Weather Network
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