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An excellent personal site with a wealth of useful information. Verified May-00.
Official Parks Canada site. Verified Feb-01.
Verified Feb-00.
UK-based holiday operator, offering coach tours of the USA. Verified Jan-01.
A shipping/delivery service chain. Verified Sep-02.
This chain, similar to Wal-Mart and K-Mart, operates in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Their web site includes a store locator. Verified Sep-02.
This web site includes menu choices and full details of locations, most of which are in the northeast, the mid-west and the west coast, and I think mainly in the form of kiosks in shopping mall food courts rather than separate buildings. This chain does not operate in Canada. Verified Jun-02.
A bakery/cafe chain, offering bread, bagels, croissants, muffins, pastries, sandwiches, salads and soups. Verified Apr-03.
Links to numerous newspaper web sites. Previously called the Editor and Publisher's Database Directory Of The World's Online Newspapers. Verified Sep-99.
Previously called All The World's Newspapers. Links to a huge number of online newspaper web sites worldwide, including the USA and Canada. Verified Nov-00.
This web site has a wealth of information. The "National Maps" page offers some useful national maps of the entire Canadian national park system and some sections of the site also offer maps of individual parks. In English and French. Both URL's lead to the same content. Both URL's verified Feb-04.
L.L. Bean is a sporting equipment and clothing supplier. This site contains a lot of information on the National Parks and similar areas. Verified Aug-97.
This site provides detailed information. Verified May-98
You can register a complaint about a travel-related company on this site and it will be directed to the company concerned. The site also offers advice about complaining, together with some sections covering related subjects. Companies covered include airlines, car rental, cruise lines, hotel chains, long distance bus lines, motel chains, passenger train services, tour operators and travel agent associations. Only US companies are covered, plus possibly Canadian. Verified Jul-02.
Verified Mar-02.
Includes some very useful information for British visitors to the USA and Canada. Verified Jun-04.
Includes some very useful information for all visitors to the USA. Verified Jun-04.
Both URL's lead to the same content. Both URL's verified Feb-04.
A chain of shoe shops. Verified Sep-02.
US non-profit television network. Verified Nov-96.
This is one section of the PBS site, associated with a programme about the Golden Gate Bridge. Verified May-04.
This is one section of the PBS site, associated with a programme about the Lewis and Clark Expedition which was shown on PBS. It contains a wealth of high quality material on the subject, and also a downloadable screen saver. Verified Nov-01.
Part of the Drury Hotels group. Verified Aug-02.
A chain of opticians. Verified Sep-02.
The passenger and car ferry between Leamington and Kingsville near the southernmost tip of the Ontario mainland, Pelee Island and Sandusky, Ohio. This site has details of schedules and fares. Verified Jul-99.
Department store chain. Verified Sep-02.
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Verified Dec-05.
A very useful introduction to the Amish people of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Verified Jun-04.
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Verified Jun-04.
An unofficial but useful guide. Verified Dec-05.
Verified Jan-99.
Verified Jul-97.
Official site. Verified Mar-99.
Verified Jul-97.
Verified Dec-05.
A member of the Ivy League. Verified Aug-99.
Automotive shop chain. Verified Sep-02.
Verified Mar-02.
Personal Web Sites
See separate section.
Pets goods shop chain. Verified Sep-02.
Pets goods shop chain. Verified Sep-02.
A Canadian gas station (petrol station) chain. Verified Aug-02.
A list of links to a number of gas (petrol) price web sites, mostly but not exclusively Canadian. Verified Oct-00.
This site offers a useful detailed and largely up-to-date searchable database of US and Canadian gas prices (i.e. petrol prices). Verified Aug-02.
A useful summary of average gas (petrol) prices by region of the USA and grade. Verified Aug-02.
Petrol Station Chains
See separate section.
Pets goods shop chain. Verified Sep-02.
A guide to travelling with a pet, including information on motels and other forms of accommodation which accept visitors with pets. Verified Aug-00.
The organisation responsible for public transport in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. The site includes fares and maps. For information on Philadelphia's subway system, refer to the "Subways and Trolleys" section. Verified Apr-03.
When I visited this site in Aug-02 it failed in Netscape Navigator but worked in Internet Explorer. Verified Aug-02.
A chain of Vietnamese cuisine restaurants with locations throughout the USA and Canada. Verified Aug-02.
Verified Aug-02.
This site is ideal for discovering the whereabouts of a huge number of hiking trails, especially in US National Parks. However, when I visited the site in Nov-02 I couldn't find any information about the actual trails themselves, which was disappointing. Verified Nov-02.
A Chinese cuisine fast food restaurant chain with locations in southern California, Las Vegas (Nevada) and Arizona. Verified Aug-02.
Chuck Stansbury's personal site. Verified Dec-05.
A department store chain. Verified Sep-02.
This site includes an interesting page about the history of the company, which opened the USA's first self-service supermarket in Memphis Tennessee in 1916. Verified Sep-02.
This chain has 237 travel centres in thirty-six US states. Verified Sep-02.
Pincher Creek is a pleasant small town located in southwestern Alberta, to the east of the Crowsnest Pass and to the north of Waterton National Park. Verified Feb-01.
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Verified Apr-97.
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A chain of sporting goods shops. Verified Sep-02.
This site covers both the Bonanza and the Ponderosa chains, and includes a location list. Verified Mar-02.
History of the Pony Express. Verified Jul-02.
Verified Mar-02.
UK-based holiday operator. Verified Feb-01.
Verified Aug-99.
Verified Feb-98.
The monthly average high and low temperatures, precipitation and snowfall for each of the major US National Parks. Verified Sep-02.
Verified Mar-01.
Verified Mar-01.
Price CostCo (often simply called CostCo) is a chain of membership only warehouse stores. This site includes a store locator guide and information on membership. Verified Sep-02.
Official site. Verified Feb-99.
Official site. Verified Mar-99.
Official site. Verified Feb-99.
Verified May-00.
A member of the Ivy League. Verified Aug-99.
Two web sites for the pleasant small town in southwestern British Columbia, located to the east of Vancouver and Manning Provincial Park and to the west of the Okanagan Valley. On a very brief inspection the second site looked the better of the two but try both. Both Verified Feb-01.
Provincial Parks In Canada
See separate section.
Provincial Tourism Offices In Canada
See separate section.
The gimmicky graphics make the pages of this site slow to load. It includes details of programmes and stations. Verified 27-Jul-02.
Verified Sep-04.
The official web site of Pennsylvania's famous weather predicting groundhog. Verified Feb-05.
Information related to Thomas Pynchon's book about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who surveyed the original Mason-Dixon Line. Includes detailed biographies of the two men. Verified Jul-03.
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