The sun may be setting on a Vancouver Island landmark.

If you’ve so much as driven through Duncan in the last thirty years, chances are you’ve seen the World’s Largest Hockey Stick.

Now, with its wooden structure rotting, its future is in doubt.

Built for Expo 86 in Vancouver, it made its way to the island a few years later and currently stick above the Cowichan Community Centre.

With an estimated cost of at least one and a half million dollars to restore or replace the stick,

the Cowichan Core Recreation Commission has directed staff to move ahead with decommissioning the world’s largest hockey stick in 2024, although its exact fate is still up in the air.