Located in the Rainy River District of Ontario, Fort Frances has been a centre of activity since the time of the Fur Trade. Information is provided on the town's history, economy and tourism activities.

The Town of Pentanguishene is a historic community located on the southerly tip of Georgian Bay. Information is provided on the community, and its attractions.

Wasaga Beach, Ontario, is the longest freshwater beach in the world. This unique resort community is a popular holiday location for over two million people each year. Links provide information on the community's services and attractions.

Richmond Hill Ontario is part of the Greater Toronto Area. At one time it was known as the "Rose Capital" of Canada. Links provide information on the community, its municipal government, and tourism.

The co-design of new technology with communities has benefits and trade-offs. Engineers Without Borders Australia describe a co-design project in rural Cambodia that they participated in. The goal was to design assistive technologies...

The Wessels Living History Farm of York County, Nebraska, offers a look at what it was like to live on a Great Plains farm in the 1920s. The farm's attractive and well organized website includes interviews with people who remember life...

A learning module on how humans change and shape their local environment. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include...

The Pew Hispanic Research Center provides a quiz asking questions about your community and how you rate it based on the probing questions. Includes questions exploring different aspects of the community some find important. Compares your...

According to Canada's 2006 census, the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba had the highest urban, aboriginal population in Canada. Statistics for other urban and regional areas are included on this government site.

Prior to 1948, Jewish communties were found discontinuously in an area stretching from southwest Asia across North Africa, from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in...

Until mass emigration began in 1948, Jews constituted one of the largest and longest-settled non-Muslim populations in Iran. Dispersed in every city and town in the country, Iranian Jews were almost always a minority except in a few...

An article about what China is doing to turn around its pollution problems. Read about plans for establishing large eco-communities in China, which are intended to make China's air and water cleaner as they also absorb millions of...