14. Occidental Park

This cobblestone expanse and its incongruously modernistic pergola were built in 1972. The nearby totems were all carved by Duane Pasco and donated by gallery owner Richard White in the late 1980s. The taller totem relates how a raven once stole the moon, and the other depicts a man riding the tail of a whale. The facing pair of large figures represents mythological dream dwellers, the fearsome Tsonogua on the west and a bear on the east, which were invoked by North Coast Salish mothers to threaten disobedient children.

Courtesy Walt Crowley