It offers various amenities including a school, community hall, public library and five parks, as well a local service industry.

[2] Vestiges from before the last ice age, a land of hidden treasures, petrified wood and fossils, hammers and arrows of the Assiniboine, Plains Cree, and Blackfoot peoples.

The hills, first surveyed by the Henry Youle Hind expedition in 1858, were used for hunting by day, and at night fires could be seen of meat being smoked.

In 1926 Joeville was a prosperous community when the Canadian Pacific Railway constructed a rail line south from Assiniboia, Saskatchewan.

Joeville split into the French community of Liseux near the new elevators and 26 buildings were moved south to the new CPR junction near Valley City.

It was a community effort with desks and blackboards furnished by local carpenters and fundraising organized by Mr. Sproul.

Electric lighting was provided from 1929–1950 by the Rockglen Power Company, which ran every day from dusk to midnight, when three flashes indicated shut down.

The depression caused rural decline which was furthered by mechanization of agriculture during the later stages and in the time following the Second World War.

Nearby Constance and Strathcona were dissolved and the one-room rural school houses were replaced by a system of buses and Bombardier tracked vehicles for winter use.

The late 1970s saw a rise of inflation, combined with exceptionally high grain prices; many farmers retired and moved into Rockglen.

Since the 1970s residents of the area have claimed sightings of a humanoid figure, similar to a Bigfoot or Sasquatch, living near or on "Columbus" (a hill within the town).