Thunderbird Park

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.

Photo: HighInBC, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Type: Park
Description: park in British Columbia, Canada
Address: 638 Douglas Street, Victoria, V8V 2P8

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Helmcken House and Royal British Columbia Museum.

Helmcken House

Museum

Photo: Hans-Jürgen Hübner, Public domain.

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.

Royal British Columbia Museum

Museum

Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

Church of Our Lord

Church

Photo: Chris06, CC0.

The Church of Our Lord, built in 1866-1870 and is located at 626 Blanshard Street in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is an historic Carpenter Gothic church that is designated as a National Historic Site of Canada. Church of Our Lord is situated 190 metres northeast of Thunderbird Park.

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

Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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 Thunderbird Park.

Thunderbird Park

Categories: museum, tourism, and recreation area
Location: Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

48.41978° or 48° 25′ 11″ north

Longitude

-123.36668° or 123° 22′ 0″ west

Inception

1941

Operator

Royal British Columbia Museum

Open location code

84WRCJ9M+W8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 554337844

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q429291

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Italian—“Thunderbird Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Thunderbird Park”
French: “parc Thunderbird”
French: “Parc Thunderbird”
French: “Thunderbird Park”
Italian: “Parco Thunderbird”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include The Mungo Martin House and Saint Ann’s Schoolhouse.

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