Calgary: Historical Walking Tour with Christopher Leeson｜Canada

Meet your guide, Christopher Leeson, a native Calgarian writer, documentary producer, and historian. Leeson has spent much of his career uncovering the hidden human stories behind politics, landscapes, and historical events. Today, he brings that same eye for detail and narrative to personal historical tours of Calgary and Southern Alberta.

Leeson has developed dramatic and documentary projects rooted in early Southern Alberta history, including extensive work on the first cattle drives into the province and the ranching culture that followed. His historical interests lean strongly toward social history and the original voices that shaped the West: ranchers, settlers, cowboys, railway workers, immigrants, Indigenous communities, drifters, entrepreneurs, and political outsiders.

In Calgary, his tours move beyond dates and landmarks. Rather than treating history as distant or formal, he is interested in the lived experience of ordinary people and the atmosphere of the worlds they inhabited.