Photos: Installation of the school board's new reconciliation and welcoming poles

On June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day, the Vancouver School Board unveiled a new 13.5-metre reconciliation pole outside its headquarters.

Two smaller welcoming poles also made their debut in a dedication ceremony witnessed by hundreds of schoolchildren, passersby, dignitairies, and Indigenous representatives of the three Lower Mainland First Nations upon whose unceded lands the poles were erected a few days earlier: the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh.

Also present were the poles' aboriginal carvers and sculptors.

Below are some pictures taken during the three poles' installation days (June 17 and 18) earlier in the week.