British Columbia
Capital Regional District
Victoria

Statue of James Cook

A statue of Captain James Cook stood in , from 1976 until 2021, when it was toppled in a protest. It was a fibreglass copy of a bronze statue of 1912 by John Tweed in , Yorkshire, England.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: former public statue in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Captain James Cook”, “Statue of Captain Cook”, “Statue of Captain James Cook”, and “Statue of James Cook (Victoria, British Columbia)”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Empress and Royal British Columbia Museum.

Memorial
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The Fairmont Empress, formerly and commonly referred to as , is one of the oldest hotels in , , Canada. Located on 721 Government Street, it is situated in Downtown Victoria, facing the city's .

Museum
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The , founded in 1886, is a history museum in , , Canada. The "Royal" title was approved by Queen Elizabeth II and bestowed by Prince Philip in 1987, to coincide with a royal tour of that year. is situated 230 metres south of Statue of James Cook.

Obelisk
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is an 8-metre marble obelisk, installed outside the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in , Canada. The sculpture was erected in 1881 to honour James Douglas, the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, and was made by Mortimer & Reid using marble from , . is situated 170 metres southwest of Statue of James Cook.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Victoria and Chinatown.

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is the capital of 's westernmost province; , near the southern tip of . contains a perfect combination of the old and new Canada.

Neighborhood
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The in is the oldest in and the second oldest in North America after . Victoria's had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858.

Town
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The Township of is a municipality at the southern tip of , in , Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, , to the south by the , to the west by and… is situated 3½ km west of Statue of James Cook.

Statue of James Cook

Latitude
48.42174° or 48° 25′ 18″ north
Longitude
-123.36878° or 123° 22′ 8″ west
Open location code
84WRCJCJ+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4409072154
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q107409925
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Statue of James Cook”. Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.