Tim Boyko said he carves totem poles in honour of this grandfather whose Haida name he shares.

Short film celebrates return of totem pole raising in Haida Gwaii after a century of banishment Vancouver director Christopher Auchter's new film Now is the Time will get showings at famed ...

His first, in 2014, accompanied a totem pole he made for the Stollery Children’s Hospital as it travelled 1,760 kilometres from Masset in northern Haida Gwaii to Edmonton.

For Haida artist Robert Davidson, the idea of carving a totem pole was his grand, loving gesture to his grandparents' generation to allow them to celebrate in the old ways they knew one more time ...

Capital City Weekly Haida story headed to the international stage Old Massett totem pole raising revisited in Christopher Auchter’s documentary Now Is The Time By Alex Kurial Haida Gwaii ...

Justin Trudeau turns up in Haida Gwaii to help raise 13-metre totem pole on B.C.’s coast Hundreds gathered to watch the nearly 3,000 kilogram pole raised using six ropes and sheer manpower, the ...

A new totem pole the height of a three-storey building now looms over the southern Haida Gwaii, carved with symbols to note the remote land is protected from ocean floor to mountaintop. Hundreds ...

The first totem pole to be erected in the Gwaii Haanas region in 130 years will now include a figure of the first nations deity responsible for earthquakes. Residents of Haida Gwaii were reminded ...

Totem poles have become some of the most iconic symbols of “Native American culture,” but it's important to understand their origin and to honor their ongoing significance for the clans to ...

The pole’s story begins in Canada — specifically Haida Gwaii, which means “Islands of the Haida people,” in British Columbia. Scher Thomae believes the ancestral, or mortuary, pole was ...

Watch Ted Trotta appraise a Zacherias Nicholas Haida Argillite totem pole, ca. 1890, in Alaska Native Heritage Center, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

The totems were proclaimed by the Olympian Stone Company of Seattle to be the only cement, or concrete, totem poles in the world at the time.