Travel to beautiful Vancouver in British Columbia in a land called Canada and you will find a park named Stanley Park. In it are these magnificent totem poles created by Aboriginals for our viewing enjoyment.
According to Wikipedia, the Stanley Park totem poles are the most visited tourist attraction in British Columbia. This probably has more to do with the fact that there is no admission charges to see them than to their real artistic or cultural significance. They are nice for sure, however they are replicas; the originals were moved to museums.
Originally there were four totem poles, all carved in the 1880's in the Alert Bay region on northern Vancouver Island. These were initially located at Lumberman's Arch in Stanley Park, then in the 1960's they were moved a short distance to their present location at Brockton Point. Around 1986, the original four were sent to various museums for preservation and replaced by replicas. More pieces, carved by various artists, were added to the Brockton Point collection afterwards.
