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.

“I’ve been a carver all of my life – for almost 39 years. I realized a few decades ago that to really leave my mark here in Haida Gwaii, I’d have to start carving the totem poles.

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 ...

“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.

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 Observer ...

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.

Haida Gwaii, a misty archipelago ... Together they carved and raised one of the first totem poles to be erected after a roughly 100-year lapse in the sacred tradition.

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 ...