of place as a national treasure on display at the Canadian
Museum of Civilization. It was replaced by the present
owners of Foxholm by yet another colorful, intricately
carved and painted totem pole, suggesting every bit the
same strength of visual impact as its precursor.
This totem pole came to personify for me the whole
spirit of the garden, the house and its family. Viewing the
situation through ancient notions of place and affinity, the
pole's position might seem incongruous from a cultural
and an aesthetic perspective. But in the technically
instantaneously connected culture of our contemporary
international world, the totem pole's presence in Surrey
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