Helmcken House
Helmcken House is a museum in Victoria, British Columbia, located in Thunderbird Park. It was built in 1852 by Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken, a surgeon with the Hudson's Bay Company and the first doctor in Victoria when he married Cecilia Douglas, daughter of Governor James Douglas.Photo: Hans-Jürgen Hübner, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royal British Columbia Museum and Thunderbird Park.
Royal British Columbia Museum
Museum
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The Royal British Columbia Museum, founded in 1886, is a history museum in Victoria, British Columbia, 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.
Thunderbird Park
Park
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Thunderbird Park in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is next to the Royal British Columbia Museum and home to many totem poles and other First Nation monuments.
Douglas Obelisk
Obelisk
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Douglas Obelisk is an 8-metre marble obelisk, installed outside the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The sculpture was erected in 1881 to honour Sir James Douglas, the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, and was made by Mortimer & Reid using marble from Beaver Cove, Vancouver Island. Douglas Obelisk is situated 270 metres northwest of Helmcken House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Victoria and Chinatown.
Victoria
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Victoria is the capital of Canada's westernmost province; British Columbia, near the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Victoria contains a perfect combination of the old and new Canada.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
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The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco. Victoria's Chinatown had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858.
Esquimalt
Town
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The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and… Esquimalt is situated 3½ km west of Helmcken House.
Helmcken House
- Type: Museum
- Description: house museum in Victoria, British Columbia
- Categories: historic house museum, house, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
48.41963° or 48° 25′ 11″ northLongitude
-123.36695° or 123° 22′ 1″ westInception
1852Levels
2Open location code
84WRCJ9M+V6OpenStreetMap ID
way 153932770OpenStreetMap feature
building=detachedOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q1603188
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to German—“Helmcken House” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Helmcken House”
- French: “Helmcken House”
- German: “Helmcken House”
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