In the 1930s a couple of Danish carvers were broke. The owners of the Capilano Suspension Bridge offered them a deal: If they carved them some statues, they would give them free room-and-board.

It was the Great Depression, so Aage Madsen and Karl Hansen agreed.

One of the statues they carved was of August Jack Khatsahlano , a hereditary chief of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nation. Kitsilano was named after him, and in 1889, he helped build the first bridge across the Capilano River, which was made out of cedar planks and hemp.

For decades the Chief Khatsahlano statue was at an attraction called the Old Indian Wishing Well at the Capilano Suspension Bridge. But it was eventually taken down and vanished, its whereabouts unknown.

Recently it turned up on Facebook Marketplace, of all

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