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I want to thank all the wonderful people who responded to my inquiry. You were 
so terrific.  I will summarize again when I return from the trip the end of June.  

As for restaurants, here is a link which very soon will have restaurants that cater to GF in
Vancouver listed, and eventually across the country:  www.theceliacscene.com
There is also the Vancouver Chapter of the Canadian Celiac Association: 
http://www.vancouverceliac.ca/restaurants.shtml
This site should help you with restaurants and stores in the Calgary / Banff 
area.      http://www.calgaryceliac.com/
For GF labelling in Canada, if anything we are stricter than the US e.g., 
nothing with wheat starch can be labelled GF

I live in Calgary and you'll find a selection of gluten free food,
baked goods, and snacks at Community Natural Foods (the downtown store
located on 10th St. I don't know about their southern store.) They have
offered a master list of all the gluten items they offer on-line . Look
at the column on the right side under "store flyers" and click on the
list.http://www.livingnaturally.com/retailer/store_templates/shell_id_1

The labels are basically the same...if it's gluten free, it's gluten
free.  But you have to watch for items that say WHEAT FREE on the
cover. It might have barley or some other item on the ingredient list.
This might be similar to the US situation...basically, read the ingredient list.

Check out the Calgary website http://www.calgaryceliac.com/ for
restaurant choices – they list from Calgary 
west into Banff.  Edmonton
http://www.celiac.edmonton.ab.ca/ might have Jasper information. Both
of those chapters have e-mail addresses on their website that you can
send inquiries to.  Both Banff and Jasper have Fairmont Hotels which
are expensive to stay at however they have GF bread and will make you a
sandwich if you go there for lunch.  The Vancouver website
www.vancouverceliac.ca lists the restaurants in Metro Vancouver and has
the option of saving a PDF of the restaurants for you to carry with
you.  The email address is [log in to unmask] if you have questions.

When in Calgary, A Tasty Menu, on 17 avenue S.E. is exclusively a
gluten-free restaurant. Also, before you go to Banff, I'd pick up my GF
foods for your hiking trips at Community Natural Foods, or at Amaranth
Natural Foods. Most of the better restaurants in both Calgary and Banff can
and will cater to GF needs if they are forewarned about when you are coming.

The Chef program at SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) teaches
something about GF cooking because, for many years, they hosted a GF dinner
for members of the local group of the Canadian Celiac Association. Thus,
most of the better restaurants in southern Alberta will be able to accommodate your diet. 

Vancouver is rife with health food stores and, again, restaurants that will
cater to your needs. 

We did the trip last Fall and found it very easy to eat as many of the 
restaurants cooked in house so I could state what I needed. 
Kamloops -20a great Mongolian restaurant - Hoja Grill, 256 Victoria
Street. You cook your own choice of veg and meat and they scrub the grill first. 

Revelstoke - Zalas Steak House - all cooked in restaurant. 
 
Go to meadows in the sky above Revelstoke.  If you go to the Revelstoke 
restaurant, ask for Alanna.

Yes, one of the food stores is just a mile or so out of your way.
Amaranth Whole Foods Market (403-547-6333)is at 7 ARBOUR LAKE DR. N.W. CALGARY AB,
T3G 5G8. There is a map on their website that provides good driving
directions to the store at: http://www.amaranthfoods.ca/
Then just click on the “about our store” in the left column.  Then, in the far 
right column, click on “driving directions”
When you leave Amaranth, just go back east along John Laurie and turn
south on Nose Hill Drive. Travel about 4 blocks and turn west onto
Crowchild Trail, which will lead you to Stony Trail. Turn south on
Stony and it will take you to the #1 highway west.
Amaranth will print a receipt that indicates which item is gluten free (if you ask for it)
which is great for tax credits when you do your US taxes next year.










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