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December 2019
Separation Day Celebrations 2019
The President and Members of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland invite you and your friends on the occasion of the separation of Queensland from New South Wales on the 10th December in 1859, in the presence of patron of The Royal Historical Society of Queensland, His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland Special Guest Speaker: Ralph Devlin AM QC The program includes the award ceremony for the Art and Essay competition for primary school students 110 years of…
Find out more »Edward Barton: father of the electricity industry in Qld
Edward Gustavus Campbell Barton- 1858 -1942 - The father of the Electricity Supply Industry in Queensland The presentation will cover the contribution that Edward Barton made as a pioneering Electrical Engineer and who laid the foundations for the start of the electricity supply industry in Queensland, Born in Melbourne in 1858, his early training in Germany , Scotland and England prepared him for his role in Brisbane, commissioning and operating the first Government Printery power station in 1886. He then started…
Find out more »February 2020
Emigrant: The Ship of Death by Jane Smith
The Emigrant sailed into Moreton Bay in August 1850 after four terrible months at sea. It was the second government-assisted immigrant ship to come directly to Moreton Bay, in a scheme that aimed to boost the growth of free Brisbane and remove the stains of its convict past. Some 276 poor settlers from England and Ireland boarded the ship in Plymouth, hoping to build a better life in Australia. Typhus and other maladies killed around twenty on the voyage, and the…
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