How to determine if a website is reliable:

• Check the date
• Find the author
• See if the information can be found on other sites

 

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/cic/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=true&displayGroupName=Biographies&currPage=&scanId=&query=&source=&search_within_results=&p=CIC&mode=view&catId=GALE%7C00000000MI4D&u=43riss&limiter=&display-query=&displayGroups=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ2181200006&windowstate=normal&activityType=&failOverType=&commentary=

 

To access this link, go to the Riverside homepage. Select “Library” (school login info). Then click the red “click here”. Under “Gale databases” (password: student) choose “Canada in context”. Then under “biography” select “Louis Riel”. Once on his page, click “view more”.

 

Something I learned is that it is relatively easy to create a website advertising false information.