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Duncan is a city with an area of 371.74 km² and a population of 4,812 people Search and find companies, telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses in the Business Directory Duncan Duncan is a city in southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is about 50 kilometres from both Victoria in the south and Nanaimo in the north. Before the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute Duncan and the whole Cowichan Valley was a thriving lumber centre in British Columbia. It is the seat of the Cowichan Valley Regional District. Duncan s tourisim slogan is "The City of Totems"; the city has many totem poles around the downtown area, which were erected in the late 1980 s, including the world s largest Totem pole, carved by First Nations artisan Simon Charley. A local nickname for the city is Drunken Duncan, due to the stereotype of Duncan being a heavy consumer of beer, most notably Lucky Beer. It is also the home of the "World s Largest Hockey Stick", which was at Expo 86 in Vancouver. Duncan is home to a very large First Nations community, and traditional home of the Coast Salish Indians; they are the largest band in the Coast Salish tribe. The Salish are makers of the world famous Cowichan Sweaters.