About
Tyson Walker, REALTOR®
I grew up around the Foothills and I’m back living here now. This isn’t a territory I picked off a map, it’s home. I work with buyers and sellers of residential property across High River, Okotoks, Diamond Valley, and the surrounding Foothills County, from first condos to family homes.
I’m a licensed REALTOR® with Grand Realty & Management Ltd., licensed to trade in residential real estate, and I bring the same hands-on, detail-first approach to real estate that I’ve used building the tools on this site myself.
What I can help with
- Buying, from your first home to a move-up purchase
- Selling: pricing, prep, and marketing that fits how homes actually move in this area
- Straight answers on the parts of a Foothills purchase that don’t come up in a Calgary deal
If you’d rather talk than read, that’s genuinely fine. Reach out and I’ll get back to you.
Fair & Equal Access to Housing
I'm committed to equal, fair treatment for everyone I work with. No exceptions. Under REALTOR® Code Article 16, I won't deny service to, or discriminate against, anyone on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, religion, colour, sex, family status, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability. I hold myself to the same standard set out in the Alberta Human Rights Act, which also protects against discrimination based on gender expression, ancestry, place of origin, and source of income. Everyone deserves a fair shot at finding a home here.
A Foothills Pedigree
I didn't just pick this area to work in. My family has lived here for five generations, since before Alberta had paved roads.
Edward Walker brought his family north from Kansas to homestead near Cayley: two settler's cars loaded with cattle, horses, and household goods, three weeks on the rail. Edward was a carpenter by trade, and much of the early village of Cayley was built by his hands. His son Orville, my great-grandfather, homesteaded his own quarter west of town that same year. At one point, twenty-two Walker families collected their mail at the Cayley Post Office.
One story survives from those early years: a North-West Mounted Police officer rode out from High River asking for help running down a man who'd stolen a team of horses from a neighbour, Bob McPherson. Orville saddled up and rode out with him. It wasn't long before they'd caught the man and recovered the horses.
Orville and his wife Winnifred raised their family on that homestead west of Cayley, including my grandfather Walt, the boy standing at right, alongside his baby sister Wilma, held here by their father Orville.
Walt grew up in Cayley and, in 1963, started his own business: Western Wood and Metal Products. He welded, built truck boxes, and sold stock trailers out of a shop he built on the family farm.
I'm the fifth generation of this family to call Foothills County home. When I say I know this area, I mean it goes back before there was pavement on the roads.
Sources: Under the Chinook Arch: A History of Cayley and Surrounding Areas (Cayley Women's Institute, 1967; centennial edition, Cayley Under the Chinook Arch Committee, 2007), and family records.
Where I Work
Foothills County is where I do most of my business. Town, village, or hamlet: if it's in the county, I know it.
- Diamond Valley
- High River
- Okotoks
- Longview
- Aldersyde
- Blackie
- Cayley
- De Winton
- Hartell
- Heritage Pointe
- Millarville
- Naphtha
- Priddis
- Priddis Greens
In the Community
Outside real estate, I'm involved with the Windmill Theatre Players Society in High River. I've performed in productions of There Goes The Bride and Shrek the Musical, and I currently serve as the Society's treasurer.
