Thunderbird Park
Thunderbird Park is a park in Victoria, British Columbia next to the Royal British Columbia Museum. The park is home to many totem poles and other First Nation monuments.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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
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
Photo: Kyle Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.41977° or 48° 25′ 11″ northLongitude
-123.3667° or 123° 22′ 0″ westInception
1941Operator
Royal British Columbia MuseumOpen location code
84WRCJ9M+W8OpenStreetMap ID
way 554337844OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q429291
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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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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 “Thunderbird Park”. Photo: HighInBC, CC BY-SA 2.5.