Deciding a typical sealing schooner would be “too easy,” Voss purchased an Indigenous whaling canoe carved by the Nuu-chah-nulth people on Vancouver Island, a 38-foot-long hollowed-out cedar ...

For the first time in more than 100 years, a traditional xwaxwana (canoe) has been carved from a windfall large cultural cedar tree high in H’kusam Forest near Sayward on Vancouver Island.