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A massive rock covered in Aboriginal carvings...

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Compiled by Debora Steel

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2012

A MASSIVE ROCK COVERED IN ABORIGINAL CARVINGS has been repatriated to BC’s interior after it was removed from the area in the early 1900s to Stanley Park. The petroglyphs on the rock are said to predate the arrival of Europeans in B.C. Most recently the rock has resided at the Museum of Vancouver. The five-ton boulder is now home near Crow’s Bar on the shores of the Fraser River, thanks to a collaboration between the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation (formerly Canoe Creek Indian Band), the museum and a team of UBC anthropologists.