Totem poles rise again on Haida Gwaii. Tim Boyko said he carves totem poles in honour of this grandfather whose Haida name he shares. Carver Tim Boyko creates new pole for new future.

Totem poles rise again on Haida Gwaii The two brothers carved the pole near their parents' house in Masset. When it came to deciding where the pole would sit, the community settled on a space in ...

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.

“The Sundance woman I talked to really liked the movie and she had never even heard of a totem pole or Haida Gwaii,” said Auchter. “The fact that the story still grabbed her is great.

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.

Old Massett totem pole raising revisited in Christopher Auchter’s documentary Now Is The Time ...

HAIDA GWAII, B.C. - A totem pole detailing the history of the Gwaii Haanas region will rise above southern Haida Gwaii this week, making it the first monumental pole to be raised in the Gwaii ...

GWAII HAANAS, B.C.—A new totem pole the height of a three-story building now looms over the southern Haida Gwaii, carved with symbols to note the remote land is protected from ...

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 ...

In 1789, Capt. John Meares became the first European to make note of a free-standing pole on Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands), the art form’s most likely place of origin.

A 13-metre totem pole has been erected on B.C.‘s Haida Gwaii islands, becoming the first totem pole to be raised in the area in more than a century.