Canberra Memories
Please note that some of these items contain family history information.
Contents:
Acton ACT : Acton-from Mt. Pleasant, pre 1925 (photo) : Canberra-generally
Canberra - Early & Later Landholders : Canberra - Wartime : Canberra High School
Canberra Radio : Poems about Canberra
Molonglo Settlement Camp, Fyshwick : The Queen's Visit to Canberra-February 1954
Westlake - known today as Stirling Park, Yarralumla (with Map)
Acton ACT
Acton Hall - memories of other days when Canberra was younger.
Canberra - Generally
Frederick Piggin describes early days in Canberra - at his retirement in 1948. He arrived in Canberra in 1910 and talks of Duntroon, the Cotter, Condor Crk, Uriarra & Canberra.
Ten Christmas Days in Canberra - a Retrospect 1923-1932 - relates how Canberra has changed over these years
First Military Unit raised in Canberra District - Bungendore Corps of the Southern District Reserves (Watson A. Steel)
Canberra is My Beat, by 'Uriarra' - a whimsical look at Canberra at the end of 1946.
Canberra - Early and Later Landholders
McLaughlin, John - Canberra's Oldest Native - includes spelling of Canberra; crossing the Murrumbidgee River at Uriarra with a loaded dray enroute to Sydney.
Moore, Joshua John - first landholder on the Limestone Plains, 1823.
Canberra High School
A Young Teacher in Perspective - Terrence Steinmetz
Canberra Radio
Radio 2CA & A.J. Ryan - Ruth Roffe, former office assistant
Molonglo Settlement Camp - Old Internment Camp
Nearly had a House at Westlake - Joan Adam's Story of Molonglo Settlement Camp
Poems about Canberra
'Canberra', a poem published May 1927 by Henry Edwin Horne, and performed by schoolchildren as a song to welcome the Duke of Kent in Sydney November 1934.
The Queen's Visit to Canberra - February 1954
Newspaper articles on the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Canberra, February 1954. Includes their arrival, meeting pioneers, schoolchildren's displays & Manuka Oval...
Weetangera Methodist Church
Weetangerra Methodist Church - news items and letters to the Editor
Westlake - known today as Stirling Park, Yarralumla
A Google map overlaid with a map of Canberra, showing the Westlake Settlement marked above Perth Avenue, north-west of Capital Hill.
