Yes, I'm very familiar with the diseases resulting from gluten and lactose intolerance. My mother was diagnosed with a very severe case of ulcerative jejunitis back in the 1970's when there were barely any resources. Now, you can go to larger grocery stores and health foods stores and have many gluten free products to choose from and resources available!

You may have already seen this site, the Calgary chapter of the Canadian Celiac Association (CCA). This Canadian site gives you all the starter information you may need:

CCA

Check out the PDF's along the right side under Training/Education resources, great info!

Also, in case you want to read more, here's a huge site dedicated to the disease:

Celiac.com