Conversation so far:
What is Canada's Geological Survey?
As director of the Anthropological division of the Geological Survey of Canada, Sapir embarked on a project to document the Indigenous cultures.
Around what year was that?
CANNOTANSWER.
How did the project turn out?
His first fieldwork took him to Vancouver Island to work on the Nootka language.

Question: Was he successful in this?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Edward Sapir successfully document the Nootka language of Vancouver Island?