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Last week聽聽Siwash Rock, one of Vancouver鈥檚 most recognizable natural landmarks. What was missing in that story is that Siwash Rock had a wife or two that were also turned into rocks by a聽. I鈥檇 long thought those other rocks had been destroyed or moved and forgotten, but found the one called Sunz Rock last week on a trip around the seawall. She鈥檚 eroded somewhat since the 1930s and vandals long ago聽, but she sits in the same place she always has, just below the Lions Gate Bridge at Prospect Point, snuggled against the seawall.

Pauline Johnson tells us that a young chief named Skaalch and his wife and child were turned into Siwash Rock and two smaller rocks, but most o聽of the story mention a聽聽that became Sunz Rock.聽claimed聽that Sunz was not a wife, but 鈥渨as聽punished, too, like Siwash Rock 鈥� She was washing her hair;聽she had evil in her heart, too, and got turned into stone for punishment.鈥�

Sunz Rock seems to have been completely forgotten. A聽聽only turns up three pre-WWII聽聽in the City of 麻豆传媒映画Archives and聽听颈苍听The Man Who Saved Vancouver,聽Daphne Sleigh鈥檚 biography of Major Matthews, Vancouver鈥檚 first archivist and one-man heritage movement until his death in 1970. Sleigh mentions that a map Matthews made based on oral histories he collected led the engineers working on Lions Gate Bridge to change their plans so as not to damage Sunz Rock. It鈥檚 likely that Matthews intervened again to ensure Sunz did not become a casualty of聽.

The only post-WWII reference I found to Siwash Rock鈥檚 wife聽聽someone added to Pauline Johnson鈥檚 version of the Siwash Rock legend, claiming that 鈥渢he rocks which were his wife and child were blasted to bits [during construction of the seawall], and lie somewhere underneath the wide band of concrete which now circles the peninsula.鈥� This is probably true for聽, two rocks that stood聽, but not for Sunz Rock.