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Totem Park Overview

You want to live on your own but you want some of the conveniences of home. You want space and time for studying but time with friends as well. You want to get tuned in to university life, but still be able to work out, practice your music or learn a new hobby.

You'll find that perfect balance at Totem Park and Place Vanier. The communal accommodations and special orientation programs will help smooth the transition to your new life at university. And you won't have to cook for yourself.

Almost everyone living in Totem Park and Place Vanier is new to UBC: either a first-year student, a transfer student from college or another university, or an international student on an exchange. You will have a lot in common with the people on your floor, in your house and in your residence.

You will be surprised at how quickly you will make friends with others on your floor. In no time, this group of strangers will become your network of friends, study buddies and teammates. You will always have someone to walk to class with, someone to talk to, have dinner with, someone to laugh and hang out with.

Totem Park Front Desk Address: 2525 West Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1W9
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Totem Park Features:

• Minimum age: none
• Eight houses: Dene, Haida, Kwakiutl, Nootka, Salish, Shuswap, həm'ləsəm' and q'ələχən.
• Total beds: 1,757
• All houses are co-ed with single gender on most floors
• Washrooms: single gender, communal with private toilets and showers
• Shared double, triple, quadruple and single rooms
• həm'ləsəm' and q'ələχən Houses: single connecting rooms with semi-private washrooms (single gender), and single rooms with private washrooms.
  
• Twin XL bed (no linen), desk, chair, bookshelves, lamp all provided
• Wired (ethernet) internet access
• Lounge with TV and snack kitchen
• Outlet for phone
• Study area
• Dining room, meal plan
• Fitness room
• Games room
• After-hour snack bar
• Piano/music practice room
• Wireless internet access in Commonsblock
• Basketball court
• Tennis court
• Covered bike storage
• Limited monthly parking (additional fee)
• Card-operated laundry
• 24 hour front desk service
• Residence advisors in each house