Hi, I'm Beaver

the newcomer's field guide to Canada

votre guide du Canada

Being a newcomer in Canada can be overwhelming. With two national languages to a rich legacy of , and , there's a lot to learn.

Tap arts, history, or cultural references to ask Beaver

Beaver is a friendly multilingual robot pet that can act as your guide to the context behind the things you see every day, transitioning fluidly between a speaker's native language, French & English.

Take Beaver out with you

Start the rover from the desktop app and scan its code. Your phone becomes Beaver's microphone, and Beaver answers out loud through the rover.

Around the city

Point the rover at what you see and ask in your language. Beaver looks through its camera and answers.

هل يمكنك أن تأخذني في جولة في أرجاء مبنى البرلمان؟

Can you give me a tour of the Parliament grounds?

Procedures, step by step

Ask how something works here, and Beaver walks you through it.

¿Cómo obtengo mi tarjeta de salud de Ontario?

How do I get an Ontario health card?

Notebooks

At home, the desktop app keeps what the rover heard. Every question, from the rover or typed at home, becomes a notebook of new words and big ideas in three languages.

Deadlines and duties

Beaver lists your upcoming tax, benefit, and immigration deadlines, each taken from the government page that states it.

Documents

Photograph a letter you can't read. Beaver summarizes it in your language, on your own computer.

Ask Beaver

Point Beaver at a painting and ask in Spanish. Beaver answers sentence by sentence in English, French, and Spanish, so every new word comes with its translation.

Beaver

the newcomer's field guide to Canada

votre guide du Canada