North Vancouver: Carving out a city welcome
North Vancouver city hall could one day feature a traditional Coast Salish welcome figure created by local students under the guidance of a master carver.
Tsnomot-Brad Baker, North Vancouver school district vice-principal and a member of the Squamish Nation, presented his proposal to city council Monday.
“Carson Graham is one of the very few schools in B.C. that has a traditional First Nations carving program,” he said.
Right now we only have 700 students at Carson Graham but we get all of them involved. Aboriginal culture is part of the Social Studies 9 curriculum and we get all those classes involved; we have our woodwork class involved and our art classes, so it’s a student body product, not just an aboriginal product.”
The 10-year-old program has already produced several large figures for Carson Graham, the Mission reserve, Westview elementary and the Squamish-Lil’wat Cultural Centre in Whistler.
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