Our Story

Marie and Colby Delorme



Indigenous Owned


Dr. Marie Delorme

is CEO of The Imagination Group of Companies and serves on numerous boards across Canada. She is a member of the National Indigenous Economic Development Board, an advisory body to the federal government and the Indigenous Advisory Council of the Canadian National Railway Company. Dr. Delorme is a Member of the Order of Canada and has received numerous awards including the Indspire Award in Business and Commerce. She was named by WXN one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women.



Colby Delorme

Colby Delorme has been a Métis entrepreneur since the age of 18 and joined the Imagination Group of Companies in 2002. Staying true to his entrepreneurial roots, in 2016 he launched the Ceremonial Tobacco line. As President of Imagination, he has been instrumental in building the company into the dynamic operation it has become today. His latest venture has been co-founding Influence Mentoring Society, a non-profit focused on creating mentoring relationships for post-secondary Indigenous students. Having served on numerous boards and an active volunteer, Colby holds an Institute of Corporate Directors Designation from the Rotman School of Management and is passionate about creating new and sustainable opportunities in business and making a positive impact for the Indigenous community.


Our Vision - A Canada that embraces and is inspired by Indigenous art and culture.

Our Vision
A Canada that embraces and is inspired
by Indigenous art and culture.
Our Tobacco Using traditional knowledge and modern practices, we provide our customers 100% certified organic, ceremonial tobacco. Our beautiful packaging, widely known as “The Tin,” is unique in the industry and our customers often ask for it by name. We exceed all manufacturing and production standards. All Imagination Ceremonial Tobacco is stamped with provincial tobacco taxation stamps, and taxes are prepaid. Imagination is Blackstock approved and complies with all provincial legislation.

Our Tobacco

Using traditional knowledge and modern practices, we provide our customers 100% certified organic, ceremonial tobacco. Our beautiful packaging, widely known as “The Tin,” is unique in the industry and our customers often ask for it by name. We exceed all manufacturing and production standards. All Imagination Ceremonial Tobacco is stamped with provincial tobacco taxation stamps, and taxes are prepaid. Imagination is Blackstock approved and complies with all provincial legislation. Do not accept any form of ceremonial tobacco that does not comply with legislation.

Our tobacco has been:

  • aged minimum four years

  • Elder-blessed

  • smudged weekly as part of the caring process of the medicine

  • manufactured and handled in an affirmative way, in a humidified environment

  • not treated with additional chemicals or preservatives

  • adherent, whenever possible, to the traditional practice of Indigenous women manufacturing the tobacco.


Our Petroglyph Icon
Our brand image contains the drawing of a petroglyph, a familiar sight to anyone who has studied Indigenous cultures across the world. Rock paintings have been widely interpreted as symbolizing prehistoric life and are generally considered to be significant spiritual and cultural representations of ancient humans. Petroglyphs exist across the world and across time so are not indigenous to any single culture. Their universality is what makes them so interesting and serve to remind us that community is everywhere, past and present.

Our petroglyph icon is a simple image of a person with a halo and four dots. The halo represents our own imagination in believing that anything is possible. It is ever present and has no limits in its reach. The four dots represent the four cardinal directions, the four primary colours, the four Nations of the earth, the four sacred plants, the four elements, and the four distinct groups that make up Indigenous people in Canada. There is power in the number four, in Indigenous cultures, and it is an important organizing principle for life everywhere. The line that encircles our petroglyph image represents the world we all share and live within. It is ever present and has no limits in its reach.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Treaty 7 Land Acknowledgment

We would like to honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis, and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we acknowledge all Nations – Indigenous and non – who live, work and play on this land, and who honour and celebrate this territory.


About Us

The Imagination Group of Companies is 100% Indigenous owned and operated, proudly serving Canadians for over twenty-one years. Imagination is committed to providing the highest quality products and services to our customers. We blend culture and tradition with technology in the production of our Imagination Ceremonial Tobacco and Imagination Inspired line of products. And we are committed not only to authenticity, tradition, and ceremony, but also the environment and community. The Seven Sacred Teachings are the guiding principles in everything we do: honesty, bravery, respect, love, wisdom, trust, and humility.

We currently service the Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Manitoba markets for ceremonial tobacco. We are presently working on expanding our tobacco products into other provinces so if you would like to be notified when it becomes available in your area, please send an email to orders@imaginationgroup.ca. We are working on further expansion in 2022. All our blankets and Imagination Inspired products can be purchased and shipped across Canada.


Imagination exists to promote Indigenous art, traditions, and culture through innovative, contemporary, and collaborative relationships.

Our Mission
Imagination exists to promote Indigenous art, traditions, and culture through innovative, contemporary, and collaborative relationships.