Cheewhat Giant

Cheewhat Giant, also known as the Cheewhat Lake Cedar, is a large western red cedar tree located within Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest living Western redcedar, the largest known tree in Canada and one of the largest in the world.

History

The tree was discovered in 1972 within the already established Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. It was named after nearby Cheewhat Lake. With the death of the Quinault Lake Cedar in 2016, the Cheewhat Lake tree became the world's largest living Western redcedar.