• White pages
• Yellow Pages
• City, government, university and  
  other phone books
• Reverse lookup

White Pages - Find People:

The five best:

These five tools are listed in descending order of reliability, but in ascending order of sophistication. In other words, Canada411 is the most up-to-date and accurate, but the two private American web sites allow for fancy reverse searches.

1 - Canada411          The most accurate and up-to-date, (direct from the phone companies) but you cannot do any reverse searches for people

• Canada 411 - Find a person          [Français]

Reverse searches:

• Reverse phone numbers - Residential          [Français]
• Reverse address - residential        [Français]
• Reverse business number searches         [Français]
• Reverse business address search         [Français]

2 - Superpages / Superpages en français pour la région de Telus

• Click here for reverse home numbers by SuperPages
• Click here for reverse business number searches

3- WhitePages.com   One of the most convenient and comprehensive phone directories on the web for US and Canada.

• You can search for only partial names  
• Or do a reverse search by phone number
• Or by address.    But reverse searches available only for one number at a time. For entire city blocks, see Infospace
  
  

4-  Infospace People Finder   More inaccurate and out-of-date than others, but allows for the fanciest searches

• Click here for reverse searches for entire streets and by phone phone number

5. - People Search allows you to search from dozens of directories, including Canada 411 and Infospace.

• Reverse People Search allows you to choose some or all of five different phone directories from Canada and the US.
• You can also do a reverse address search from three directories.

Other sites:

*Argali White & Yellow    A free download tool searches multiple directories at once (regular and revesre searches) and also allows you to save your results.
Superpages
*Canada.click-411
* World Pages          Full Canadian listings

Yellow Pages -- Find Businesses:

*  Yellow Pages Canada -- Infospace Business Finder
*  Yellow Pages Canada -- By Category           An excellent tool to find companies by subject ... say you want all "recycling" companies in a province. Fill in the blanks
*  Infospace Reverse Business Finder          Reverse phone book, put it a number and find the business behind it.
* Yellow Pages.ca
*Superpages

Pages Jaunes-- Français:
*Pages Jaunes
*Superpages Pages Jaunes en français

Other Canadian Phone Books (Government, University, City)

*Federal government phonebook         Find your favourite minister or government bureaucrat in Ottawa. 
* Newfoundland government phonebook
*Saskatchewan Yellowpages
*Canada TollFree    With the click of a mouse, you can access a huge database of toll-free numbers for businesses or services
* Search Montreal Urban Community Phone book   By name or department.  For example, type in anyone's name; or type in "POL" for list of all police phone numbers.
*Bottin téléphonique CUM - Français
* The Women's White Pages          E-mail addresses, net addresses and numbers for women and women-run businesses on the net. 
* Canadian University PhoneBooks         A good way to find professors and experts
*Carleton University Phone Book Just fill-in-the blanks and find the staff member you want 
*Dalhousie University Phone Book Need to reach a expert in the Maritimes -- just type and click! 
* World University Phonebook Server      Directory of 330-plus universities and organizations around the world
* Other Canadian phone Books

Reverse Canada lookup:

* Infospace Reverse for Canada - Residential   Excellent page that allows you to search for someone by phone number or address
*Superpages
*Reverse residential Canada    From 555-1212.  Type in a phone number, get a name.  Look for the box in the bottom right, and don't put any dashes or spaces between the area codes and numbers
* PC411   Rather unreliable.