I left Tofino in the morning and drove east across the island to Qualicum Beach and then south through Nanaimo to Victoria. On the way, I passed through Duncan, which I knew as being famous for the world's largest hockey stick and puck.
However, I had been forewarned by Innuendo to look for something else:
Enjoyable reading and the Shay engine info answered a few questions.
There is one on display at the entrance of the BC Forest Museum on Vancouver Island just north of Duncan.
Here it is - built by the Lima locomotive works in 1911 and operational until 1958. Different in design from the one I saw at Travel Town - offset boiler and firebox, three cylinders and an external driving mechanism:
The "skeletal engineer" is a reminder that Halloween is coming up.