“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. 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.

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 ...

“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.

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.

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.