Over the time that I have been planning our move I have collected lots of information from websites and I thought I would share them.  Some of them might seem silly but I thought I would add them anyway.

www.mls.ca

For housing

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Tourism-g154914-Edmonton_Alberta-Vacations.html

Accommodation for recce trip to Edmonton

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Tourism-g154913-Calgary_Alberta-Vacations.html

Accommodation for recce trip to Calgary

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_CA-AB.aspx

current time in Alberta

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

currency converter

http://www.convertunits.com/

convert measurements eg km to miles

http://www.albertagasprices.com/

all in the name

http://www.mytelus.yellowpages.ca/

to find businesses for certain professions just like yell.com

http://www.thepensionservices.gov.uk/state-pension/forecast/home.asp

information regarding UK pension

http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/isp/cpp/cppinfo.shtml

information regarding Canadian pension

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl

google maps can be used as a route planner to get an idea of distance.

http://www.rogers.com/web/Rogers.portal

http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpWls_Landing.page

http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/

http://consumer.telus.com/cgi-ebs/jsp/homepage.jsp?

TV and Telephone packages

http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ca-canada

find out stats on lots of things compared to England and other countries

http://www.safeway.ca/storefinder/sixframeset.asp?mainurl=http://safeway.ca.inserts2online.com/storeReview.jsp?drpStoreID=258

Safeway supermarket gives an idea of food prices

http://www.sears.ca/gp/home.html

Department store gives an idea of prices of beds etc

http://www.calgarysun.com/

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/index.html

Calgary Newspapers above and Edmonton below great for getting news, rental prices etc

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/index.html

http://edmontonsun.com/

Update to follow I'm sure there will be more to add