He arrived in the province in 1939, before the start of WWII, and lived in Vancouver and Victoria before travelling to Bella Coola to study the local Indigenous populations. The expedition brought him international fame, and a subsequent documentary about the expedition, directed by Heyerdahl himself, went on to win the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 24th Academy Awards.Ī lesser-known fact, however, is that Heyerdahl was once a resident of Rossland! Before the famous expedition in 1947, Heyerdahl, along with his family, had relocated from Norway to B.C. After sailing across the Pacific Ocean for 101 days, the Kon-Tiki raft arrived intact at the Raroia atoll in French Polynesia, confirming Heyerdahl’s theory.
In 1947, aboard a hand-made raft, Heyerdahl sailed from South America to the Polynesian islands in an effort to prove his theory that ancient South American peoples could have travelled to the islands of the South Pacific.
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