Inmates say totem pole they helped carve at B.C. jail a catalyst for remarkable change
Left to right: Former Vancouver Island Regional Corrections Centre inmate Eddy Cliffe and current inmate Roger Der beside Tsawout brothers and carvers Perry and Tom LaFortune. The pole was dedicated to the jail’s Indigenous cultural liaison Max Henry’s late father, Max Henry Sr., during a ceremony that took place May 11.
After more than two years since it was started, the totem pole carved by inmates at the Vancouver Island Regional Corrections Centre in Saanich now stands as a reminder to those on the outside that true rehabilitation is happening inside. Max Henry, the jail’s Indigenous cultural liaison, said he has seen remarkable change in some of the inmates, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, as a result of participating in the project over the past two years.
Henry brought forward and led the project with help from Tsawout First Nation carver Tom LaFortune, his two brothers Aubrey and Perry LaFortune and late elder Max Henry Sr., to whom the totem pole was dedicated during Thursday’s ceremony.
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