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Contents

• Arts and Entertainment
• Baby & Children
• Books on-line
• Cars & Trucks
• Cooking, Recipes
• Costumes
• Crafts
• Digital Pictures
• Disney
• Education
• e-cards/Electronic Postcards/Greeting Cards
• Entertainment
• Funny Pages
• Games, Puzzles & Word Fun
• Gardening
• Health / Medical
• Household Tips
• Libraries and Reference info on line
• Lottery Info/Results
• Magazines
• Media and News
• Music
• Myths, Hoaxes
• Palm Pilot Software Sites
• Pets
• Quotes, Talks, other random bits of text
• Reference and Libraries on line
• British Royal Family
• Recreational Vehicles
• Schools
• Seasonal
• Services
• Shopping
• Sky Charts
• Sports and Recreation
• Travel & Regional
• T.V. Shows
• Weather
• Web Centers (Starting points to various topics)

Arts and Entertainment

Local links
• Edmonton Festivals
• Economic Development Edmonton's Edmonton Events Calendar
• CKER Events Calendar (Edmonton)
• EdmontonPlus.ca Restaurants, attractions, hotels, moving, shopping, sports, ...
• EdmontonRestaurants.ca
• Edmonton.ca

  Festivals

• International Children's Festival
• Edmonton's Fringe Festival
• Edmonton's Klondike Days
• A Taste of Edmonton
• Edmonton's Festival of Trees

  Attractions

• Odyssium
• Muttart Conservatory
• Fort Edmonton
• Valley Zoo
• Valley Zoo Development Society
• Edmonton Corn Maze

  Entertainment

• Edmonton Movie Guide
• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
• Edmonton Art Gallery

• Sidetrack Cafe
• Yuk Yuk's

• Winspear Centre
• Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
• Festival Place

  Spray/Splash Parks

• Spray/Splash Parks - Sherwood Park
• Spray/Splash Parks - Edmonton ... this link doesn't work because it's a portal thingy... try:
  www.edmonton.ca,
  Parks & River Valley tab
  Parks bar on LHS,
  Under River Valley Parks, select Kinsmen Park
  under things to do, select Wading Pools/water/spray parks
  for a list of water/spray parks run by the city of edmonton

  Recreation

• Kinsmen Leisure Centre Sherwood Park

  Theatre

• Citadel Theatre
• Walterdale Playhouse
• Studio Theatre (U of A)
• Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts
• Fringe Theatre Adventures
• Horizon Theatre Spruce Grove
• Roxy Theatre (home of Theatre Network)
• Northern Light Theatre

Galleries
• Afterimage Gallery - photography art gallery in Dallas, Texas

  Music

• lyrics.com
• Absolute Lyric .com
• this day in music
• Pop Culture Madness - Music - Top 40
• Live Daily

• Billy Joel
• Blue Rodeo
• Sarah McLachlan
• Jann Arden
• Eric Angus Whyte
• Sean Morey

  Movies

• The Internet Movie Database
• Common Sense Media media reviews - age appropriate ratings for kids
• Yahoo Movie's - Movie Mom Guide
• Edmonton Movie Guide
• Screen It! Entertainment Reviews

  Entertainment Books

• Entertainment Books main page
• Edmonton's Entertainment Book

Baby & Children

• Activities & Web sites for Kids
  • PBS Kids
  • Kids CBC
  • Sesame Street

  • Nick Jr.
  • Treehouse TV
  • Crayola Home Page
  • Disney Home Page
  • Fisherprice Rescue Heroes
  • Unofficial Schoolhouse Rock Web Site
  • Cyber-Seuss
  • Kiddiesgames.com

  • Edmonton Public Library - Puppet Shows

• Colouring Book Pages (to print)
  • Coloring Book Fun.com
  • Learning Planet
  • Preschool Coloring Book
  • Pooh Coloring Book
  • KidsDomain Valentine coloring pages

• Baby
  • BabyCenter.com
  • CanadianParents.com
  • Baby symptom guide - babycenter.com
  • BabyCenter's list of drugs during pregnancy (Lists drugs considered to be safe to take during pregnancy - tylenol, cough medicine, allergy medicine)
  • BabyCenter's list of drugs and breastfeeding (Lists how safe various drugs are considered to be, when taken when breastfeeding - everything from tylenol up)
  • BabyCenter's growth percentile calculator

• Children
  • CanadianParents.com
  • ParentCenter.com
  • ChildFun.com
  • Children's Growth Chart Percentiles Calculator

• Articles
  • Wondertime magazine: Catherine's Ben & Birdy Articles
  • Catherine Newman's Ben & Birdy Blog
  • Bringing up Ben & Birdy from Babycenter.com (2002-2006 articles)

• Birthday Parties
  • Disney - Family.go - Birthday Party Ideas
  • Birthday Party Ideas.com
  • Birthday Cake Scrapbook
  • Off the Shelf Gifts & Party Supplies & party ideas

• Car Travel Games
  • Car Trip Games
  • Car Travel Games for kids

• Safety
  • Transport Canada - Child Safety (car seat info)

  • Gov't of Alberta - News Release - Mandatory Bike Helmets under 18 years (Includes list of recognized helmet safety standards)
  • Alberta - Mandatory Bike Helmets Q&A
  • Alberta - Capital Health - Bike Safety (and helmets)
  • Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
  • Safe Kids Canada

  • Canadian Standards Association

Books on-line

• International Children's Digital Library
• Gutenberg Project on-line books
• The On-line Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania

Cars & Trucks

• Toyota Canada
• Honda Canada
• Ford Canada
• DaimlerChrysler Canada
• GMC Canada

• driving canada.com Canadian used cars
• Canada Trader.com Auto, Truck, RV, ... trader magazine

• Canadian Driver.com

• Auto Consumer Guide
• CarCost Canada.com dealer invoice prices (membership required for full access)
• Canadian Black Book used car prices - available through AMA web site
• Kelley Blue Book (US car prices)

Cooking and Recipes

• Canada's Food Guide
• Food and Nutrition Facts (how long food items last in the fridge & freezer)
• Food Network.ca
• Everyday Food
• All Recipes - Appetizer Recipes

• World's Healthiest Foods List of Nutrients (which foods contain which nutrients)

Costumes

• Costume sales & rentals
  • Custom Costumes (Sherwood Park)

• Costume ideas
  • Great no-sew Halloween costumes (from parentcenter.com)
  • Wacky Costume Ideas
  • Kids Costume ideas (Kids Domain site)
  • Animal Costumes for infants and up
  • Make your own costume
  • Halloween costume fashion show
  • Costume Idea Zone
  • Halloween Costuming
  • Texas Costume Party.com

Crafts

• Family Fun - Crafts (part of Disney online)
• Kids Domain.com Crafts
• Parents.com Activities and Crafts
• Enchanted Learning Crafts
• Making Friends.com
• Craft Freebies.com

  Valentines

• familyfun.go.com Valentine's crafts
• Mice hershey kisses valentines
• Mars/M&Ms web site valentines
• Mars/M&Ms Bright Ideas Valentines
• www.AllCrafts.net - Valentine's projects
• www.makingfriends.com - Calico Cards
• KidsDomain Valentine coloring pages

  Craft Councils

• Alberta Craft Council (Site includes list of events - craft shows, exhibits, ...)

  Craft Shows

• Signatures Shows Ltd Craft shows (Touch of Talent @ Bev Facey, Butterdome Craft Sale)
• Alberta Craft Council list of craft shows

  Paper Airplanes

• Paper Airplanes
• The Dragon Paper Airplane

Disney

• Disney.com

• The Official Disneyland web page
• Attendance at Disneyland over the year
• Doug's Disneyland Page (Unofficial)
• MousePlanet

• The Official Walt Disney World web page
• Unofficial Walt Disney World Info Guide (by Deb Willis)

• Disneyland Paris

Education

• UnivSource - Information on Universities in Canada and the US
• Edmonton Public Schools
• Elk Island Public Schools

Palm Pilot Software Sites

• EuroCool the palm software site
• PalmStation.com
• PalmGear.com
• Handango

Pets

• Rajah dog

• "The Dog Who Loved Too Much - Tales, Treatments and the Psychology of Dogs" by Nicholas Dodman.
  Dodman is an internationally renowned pet behavioralist at Tufts University school of veterinary medicine.
• Vetinfo A Veterinary Information Service
• Dog Owner's Guide
• Care for Pets by the American Veterinary Medical Association
• Netvet Veterinary Publications and References
• Msn.com - Dogs articles, links, ...

• Petsmart.com

• Northern Alberta Society for Animal Protection (NASAP)
• Edmonton SPCA
• ASPCA American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• American Kennel Club

Quotes, Talks, and other random bits of text

• Quotes
• Specialization is for Insects - Wilkins Scholarship Talk - 12 March 2000 Sewanee College, Tennessee

Funny Pages

• List of Comics available through United Media
• Ucomics.com (Cathy, Calvin and Hobbes)
• Dilbert.com
• Snoopy.com
• Charles M. Schulz tribute cartoons

Gardening

• Garden Web The Internet's Garden Community

Health / Medical

• Health Canada (Federal Department of Health)
• Government of Alberta - Health and Wellness
• Capital Health's Healthsite Edmonton and Area, Alberta, Canda - Health Authority
• familydoctor.org
• Medline plus health information
• CDC Traveler's Health
• Virtual Hospital
• Virtual Children's Hospital

• Grey Nuns Community Hospital

• Healthy Alberta

• Baby Center's Vaccines: What you need to know (0-12 months)
• Alberta Health's Routine Immunization Schedule
• Health Canada's Immunization Schedule
• Baby Center article - Does the MMR vaccine put my child at greater risk for autism
• Baby Center article - Study finds no link between vaccines and autism - Danish study - Fall 2003
• Canada.com article - Child vaccines linked to disorder - February 2004

• Alberta Cord Blood Bank

• Health Canada advisory regarding phenylpropanolamine (PPA) Health Canada Online (Canadian Government dept of Health)

• Raynaud's Foundation Home Page
• Raynaud's Phenomenon (Info from "the Daily Apple")

Household Tips

• Home Cleaning
  

Lottery Info/Results

• Lottery Canada
  
• LottoLore Canada Lottery Results
  

Media and News

Television:
• GlobalTV - Edmonton
• CNN
• TSN

  Radio:

• Radio Stations in Alberta

  Newspapers:

• The Edmonton Journal

  Online News sites:

• Canoe.com
• Canoe's FYI Edmonton
• CTV SportsNet

Myths, Viruses, Hoaxes, Urban Legends

Sites Refuting common virus scares, myths, urban legends -
• Vmyths.com truth about computer virus myths and hoaxes
• About.com's Urban Legends page (links to details about Urban Legends, Folklore, Net Hoaxes, ...)
• Don't Get Scammed about.com article - subtitled "Don't fall for the work at home schemes"

Magazines

• Canadian Living
• Chatelaine
• Maclean's
• National Geographic Traveler
• People
• Popular Science

E-Cards

• Yahoo Canada Greetings
• Blue Mountain electronic postcards
• Hallmark electronic postcards
• Care2 e-cards
• Regards.com Free Greetings
• ITfx Greetings
• How Are You Greeting Cards
• American Greetings
• Absolutely Victorian Greetings (slow loading)

• Celeste's Holiday pictures
• send an e-postcard from Hawaii

• The Digital Postcard

Games, Puzzles and Word fun

• Wordsmith.org the home of A Word A Day, and the internet anagram server
• Quiz Site
• NTN Canada

Recreational Vehicles

• Western RV Country These sites have fairly good on-line sales listings
  
• Trailblazer RV
• Woody's RV World Red Deer & Calgary

  These sites have on-line sales listings, but they leave something to be desired
  

• ArrKann Trailer and R.V. Centre
• R.V. Country

• RV Dealers.com - link to N.A.D.A. Appraisal Guides

• RV Canada.com

Reference (Dictionary, Thesaurus, Maps) & Libraries

Dictionaries
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
• OneLook Online Dictionary
• Cambridge Dictionaries
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
• Random House Webster's Dictionary

  Thesaurus

• Roget's Thesaurus - University of Chicago

  Maps

• Microsoft Expedia Maps
• Map Quest (maps, driving directions, distances, estimated driving time,...)
• Block View Maps (maps with photos on the block)
• Map Blast
• National Geographic Atlas

  Sky Maps

• Skymaps.com download evening sky map and calendar for each month

  Encyclopedic Info

• Encarta Online - Home

  Libraries

• Strathcona County Library
• Edmonton Public Library
• The Alberta Library Card

  Half-masting of flags

• Canada
• Britain
• U.S.

  Other

• HowStuffWorks.com

British Royal Family

• Official web site of the British Monarchy
• Royal Archive (archive of royalty related news articles)

Schools & School Boards

• Elk Island Public Schools

Seasonal

Christmas
• Santa's Web Site
• Mars - Christmas Ideas
• NORAD tracks Santa's flight

  Halloween

• FamilyFun Pumpkins
• Pumpkin Glow.com
• CarvingPumpkins.com
• www.jack-o-lantern.com
• Tagyerit pumpkins
• Gusik pumpkins

  Also see Crafts

Services

• Air Miles
• Air Canada

• Alberta Motor Association
• Bank of Montreal
• Esso Extra
• Rogers - Canada
• TicketMaster
• Tix on the Square
• The Alberta Library Card
• Canada Post
• Canada Post - Postal Code Lookup
• U.S. Zip Code Lookup
• Yard Cards
• OnlineConversion.com Convert just about anything to anything else

• Government of Canada
• Alberta Government Home Page

• ConsumerSearch
• Consumer Reports
• Auto Consumer Guide
• Kelley Blue Book
• Edmunds car buying guide

• Photographers
  • Little Sproutz Photography
  • Carlyle Portraits Inc (All About Angels Photographs)

• Editing Boutique

• Personal Chefs / Specialized Meal Preparation
  • Urban Rustic Gourmet
  • The Hidden Kitchen
  • Personal Chefs in Alberta (Kathryn Luedtke - Great Expectations)

• Weather
  • Environment Canada
  • The Weather Network
  • Environment Canada - Historical climate data

• Road Reports
  • Alberta road reports (AMA)
  • Drive West Traveller Information System
  • B.C. road reports
  • Environment Canada ICBC Travel Alert B.C. highways

Shopping

• The Bay
• The Bay's Gift Registry
• Canadian Tire
• Chapters.ca
• Compusmart
• Country Samurai Coffee Company - Kona, Hawaii
• Crazy Shrits
• The Disney Store
• Future Shop.ca
• Ikea Canada
• London Drugs Canada
• McBain Camera
• Sears Canada
• Staples.ca
• Toys R Us
• Usborne Books Canada

• Bonnie Doon
• Kingsway Garden Mall
• Londonderry Mall
• Sherwood Park Mall
• Southgate Centre
• West Edmonton Mall Shopping Centre

• Discover Edmonton Shopping Categories
• Foundlocally.com - Edmonton Shopping

• Max's Food Basket - Grocery Price Comparison

• Farmers Markets - Alberta

• Bargain Finder - Edmonton

  Florists & Flowers on the web

• Edmonton Florists Simon Says Roses
• Lisa's Gifts & Flowers (Flowers-on-wheels)

Digital Pictures

• London Drugs Canada
• McBain Camera
• Colorfast Canada

Sky Charts & other astronomy info

• Sky Maps
• Earth & Sky
• Estimated Planetary Kp index refers to geomagnetic activity, relevant to viewing the Aurora
• Your Sky Interactive planetarium of the web

Sports and Recreation

Edmonton Professional Sports
• Edmonton Cracker Cats (Baseball)
• Edmonton Oilers
• Edmonton Eskimos

  Canadian Sports Associations and Info

• Volleyball Canada - Canada's National Volleyball teams
• Canadian Curling Association
• TSN Curling info
• In the Hack Curling info
• Slo-Pitch National (SPN) Canadian National Slo-Pitch Association

  Sports Centers - Alberta

• Rally Pointe North America's biggest voleyball complex - Calgary Alberta

  Local Amateur Sports

• Sherwood Park District Soccer Association
• Strathcona County Sport field status
• Fort Saskatchewan Mixed Slo-Pitch Association

  Sports Events

• World Masters Games 2005 Edmonton (July 22-31, 2005)
• 8th IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Edmonton 2001 (August 3-12, 2001)
• Edmonton 2001 IAAF Marathon route

  Golf

• Edmonton and area golf course listings
• Golf Guide Canada
• Golf Net Canada
• Golf Web (Worldwide)
• Golfing around Kelowna

Travel & Regional

• Canada
  • Alberta
    • Alberta Camping
    • National and Provincial Parks
    • Banff
    • Calgary
    • Canmore
    • Edmonton
    • Fort Saskatchewan
    • Jasper
    • Sherwood Park (Strathcona County)
  • B.C.
  • Nova Scotia
    • Cape Breton Island
  • Newfoundland
  • Ontario
    • Toronto
  • P.E.I.
  • Saskatchewan
• Caribbean
• Europe
  • England
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
• Mexico
• U.S.A.
  • California
  • Florida
  • Hawaii
  • Gulf Coast
  • Las Vegas
  • Montana
  • Washington
  • Texas
• Accomodations
• Airlines
• Airfares
• Camping
• Cruises
• Family
• Health
• Maps
• Tools (currency converter, time zones)
• Travel Agencies
• Travel Guides and Magazines
• With Pets

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