Thunderbird Park (Victoria, British Columbia)
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| Type | Public park |
| Location | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
Thunderbird Park is a
Kwakwaka'wakw) and other First Nation monuments. The park takes its name from the mythological Thunderbird of Indigenous North American cultures
which is depicted on many totem poles.
Also in the park are St. Anne's Schoolhouse (built 1844),
Kwakwaka'wakw "big house" built in 1953 by Kwakwaka'wakw Chief Mungo Martin
. The park is part of the Royal BC Museum Cultural Precinct, an area around the museum that contains a number of historical sites and monuments.
History
Totem poles were first erected on the site in 1940 as part of a conservation effort to preserve some of the region's rapidly deteriorating
Tony Hunt, Tim Paul, Lawrence Bell, David Gladstone, David Martin, and Bill Reid
. All of the original poles were replaced with new versions by 1992, and some of the originals are now preserved within the museum.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thunderbird Park.
- Thunderbird Park – Place of Cultural Sharing (Official website) URL accessed 2017-11-11
- To The Totem Forests (Note that the totem pole layout shown here is out of date) URL accessed 2006-06-24
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