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Thunderbird Park Name Post, 1940-45
Carvers: Mark
Spence and Joseph St Pierre
 Thunderbird
Park, 1952. BC Government photograph. BC Archives I-21008.
This is the second version of the Thunderbird Park name post. In
the initial version that was erected in 1941, the Thunderbird and
Sisiyut? lintel was supported by uncarved posts. Joseph St Pierre,
an employee of the Forest Branch of the Department of Lands in Victoria,
carved the lintel in 1940. His participation was part of the contribution
by various departments of the provincial government to the building
of the park. St Pierre based his design on the Kwakwaka’wakw
Sisiyut? carving attached to the front of the open-sided building
that can be seen on the far left of the map, but his interpretation
of Kwakwaka’wakw style is not accurate. By 1945,
the uncarved posts had been replaced by carved ones made by Mark
Spence, a Haida carver from Massett. Spence’s carvings portray
the crests of the two social divisions (clans) of the Haida: Raven
and Eagle. These carvings combine Spence’s unique personal
style with traditional Haida themes. Components of the original Thunderbird
Park name post are currently on loan to the Royal Canadian Navy Officers’ Mess,
CFB Esquimalt.
RBCM: 20152 (Thunderbird), 20150 (Bear), 20151 (Moon post).
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 Thunderbird Park. BC Government photograph. RBCM PN 13942.
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 Thunderbird
Park, ca 1945. J. C. Sweeney photograph. RBCM PN 23028.
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 Victoria,
B.C., Mark Spence, 1940 - 1945.
BC Government photograph. Photo Branch
549.
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 Thunderbird
Park, 1952. BC Government photograph. BC Archives I-21008.
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 Thunderbird
Park, 1952. BC Government photograph. BC Archives I-21008.
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 Thunderbird
Park, 1945. Boucher photograph. BC Archives I-20538.
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 Thunderbird
Park, 1950s. BC Government photograph. BC Archives I-21005.
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 Thunderbird Park, 1950s. BC Government photograph. BC Archives I-21006.
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 Thunderbird
Park, 1952. BC Government photograph. BC Archives I-21008.
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 Thunderbird Park. RBCM PN 16693.
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