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Grant Keddie believes the stone may be an Indigenous ceremonial stone found by a local artist who began to carve a face on it

When the 100-kilogram carving was discovered on a beach off Dallas Road in July 2020, an archeological curator concluded it could be a ritual pillar used in Lekwungen ceremonies

The Royal British Columbia Museum apologized Tuesday and admitted for the first time that one of its artifacts is not, in fact, a centuries-old Indigenous stone monument, as museum curators had claimed. Rather, the stone carving was created five years ago by a Victoria hobbyist with no ties to local Indigenous culture, despite the museum's grand assertions about the stone's historic significance to the First Peoples of Vancouver Island.

Cape Breton Transit ridership hit a record level in 2019, but dropped the following year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The numbers are climbing again, thanks to strong student enrolment at Cape Breton University.

Seventeen months after a mysterious stone carving was discovered at low tide on a Victoria beach, researchers at the Royal B.C. Museum and Archives are no closer to solving the question of its origin.