The permanent collections concentrate on natural and human history, and cover more than 500 million years of life on Vancouver Island ... a large collection of totem poles both inside and outdoors.

Now, a new documentary film, Story Pole: Indigenous Veterans and the Tallest Totem in the World, delves into its intriguing ...

But 18th-century voyagers to Alaska and Vancouver Island described and illustrated poles in their records, indicating that totem poles were clearly a well-established tradition at that time.