Imagine This Valley Format: Paperback

Imagine This Valley gathers a wide range of voices from communities shaped by the Canadian Rockies. Contributors include climbers, naturalists, photographers, writers and local thinkers whose work approaches the Bow Valley through mountain culture, wildlife, landscape, history and everyday community life.

The collection includes work by Barry Blanchard, Ian Brown, Ben Gadd, Katherine Govier, Harvey Locke, Lynn Martel, Robert Sandford, Margo Talbot and other writers with deep connections to Canmore, Banff and the surrounding region. Their perspectives differ, but together they show a valley understood not merely as scenery or recreation space but as a place in which people live, work, create and argue about its future.

The book offers regional writing with a strong sense of place and is suited to readers interested in Canmore, Banff, Alberta culture, the Canadian Rockies and literary nonfiction rooted in mountain communities.

Stephen Legault is a full-time conservation activist, writer, photographer, and organizational development consultant. He is the author of Running Toward Stillness, a meditation on Buddhist spiritual practice, running, and parenthood, as well as Taking a Break from Saving the World, a short book which examines the consequences of overwork in the “save the world” movement. He is also the author of several photography books, including Earth and Sky: Photographs and Stories from Montana and Alberta and Where Rivers Meet: Photographs and Stories from the Bow Valley and Kananaskis Country. He lives in Canmore, Alberta, with his wife, Jenn, and two children, Rio and Silas.