Trust Announces New Heritage Program
$6.75 million committed for three year partnership (Columbia Basin) – The Trust is making history as it establishes a new program, a new partnership and new funding to support the Basin’s heritage values. The Trust has allocated $6.15 million for a three year large capital grants program for built heritage and $600,000 for a Heritage […]
Hiring: Education Program Assistant EcoSociety’s Kokanee Creek Nature Centre
West Kootenay EcoSociety works to preserve wild places, air and water for future generations; to take action to reduce the crisis of climate change; and to promote sustainable local food systems. If you are passionate, organized, love children and people of all ages, and are pursuing a career in education, we want you to join […]
#yourbetterlife = Revelstoke!
Revelstoke. As expressed so succinctly on the Tourism Revelstoke website to describe living in this small Kootenay city: It’s a rare feeling. It’s an epic experience. It’s The Real Stoke. And right they are. Revelstoke takes tremendous pride in its rich heritage and spectacular scenery. This is a community that has succeeded in diversifying its […]
Rossland & Kaslo Make Top 17 Canadian Cities to Visit!
Expedia recently released their Top 17 Canadian Cities to Visit in 2017 and guess which Kootenay communities made the list! Really, you could look at any number of our beautiful towns and cities around the region and easily put them on any “Tops” list. But, it probably won’t come as much of a surprise to […]
Life-Work Balance to the Max! A Kootenay Example
The potential for creating the life you want, free of the needless complications, stresses and anxieties of the conventional rat-race often associated with more urban environs – a life-work balance – is becoming increasingly available here in the Kootenays. One Rossland resident is embodying that balance to the utmost, having left his big city, big […]
Promoting Vancouver Lite to Entice Vancouverites to Smaller Cities
“Place-based” marketing has become an effort gaining traction throughout the province as rural BC communities look to employ strategies encouraging talent retention, looking to take from cities such as Vancouver and Calgary. Looking to more of a Vancouver Lite approach to marketing smaller BC cities. In reference to Prince George and Quesnel’s recent campaigns to […]
Adventure Tourism Gets a Boost in Revelstoke
With the approval by the BC Government of what is soon to be the largest outdoor playground in Canada, Revelstoke is poised to take adventure tourism in the Koots to a whole new level. The Revelstoke Adventure Park will not only provide onsite camping including yurts and an RV park but enough outdoor fun to […]
Kootenay Music Awards Return!
The Kootenay Music Awards are back and, this year, after a year-long hiatus and something of a reimagining, it’s not just about the talent in and around Nelson but the entire Kootenay region. “We’re going to Rossland, Revelstoke, Fernie and everywhere in between,” Kootenay Co-op Radio’s Evie Lavers told the Nelson Star. “We want to […]
The ‘Gig’ Economy Expanding in the Koots
We at Imagine Kootenay make it our mission to convey not only what is amazing about making life and work here in these fabulous Koots, but how you can actually make it happen. With a solid technology infrastructure as foundation – boasting incredibly fast, high-speed broadband throughout most of the region – the Kootenays allows […]
Before You Head Into the Backcountry: New Avalanche Canada Forecast Phone App!
Heading out into the backcountry this winter? Stay informed and know the conditions before you go. The Powder Highway is living up to its name this season, and for die-hard powder hounds wanting not only first, but only, tracks that will mean heading off the beaten path and into the backcountry. To help you plan […]