Duncan's tourism slogan is "The City of Totems." This city has 80 totem poles around the entire town, which were erected in the late 1980's. Duncan is about 50 km. from Victoria, and 50 km. from Nanaimo.
Our reason for visiting, besides the totem poles, was to share with our "Duncan" relatives this great little city bearing their name.
The people are really friendly. Very welcoming.
Duncan has a large First Nations community and is the traditional home of the Cowichan Tribes, who are the largest band among the Coast Salish people.
This picture is near the train station. I read a interesting little note about how the citizens of Duncan, back one hundred years ago, about 2,000 of them, showed up at the train tracks and waited for the train to come through. There was to be no train stop scheduled there, but when the train conductor saw all the people, a train stop was scheduled at that moment and from then on. The citizens basically put their city of Duncan on the map.
The city of Duncan has painted yellow foot prints along the sidewalks to allow visitors to follow the totem pole self tours.
Follow the yellow brick road....
Lots of walking to be done in Duncan. Makes for a need for some homemade cooking. This little spot was recommended by one of the shop keepers.
Yummy turkey sandwich....make sure you share with someone....they are HUGE!
Chicken Gumbo....OMG.....delicious.....
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