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Canberra & District Historical Society Inc Canberra & District Historical Society Inc. Founded 10 December 1953 PO Box 315, Curtin ACT 2605 ISSN 1839-4612 Edition No. 467 June 2018 Canberra History News – Edition No. 467 – June 2018 1 Canberra & District Historical Society Inc. Council President: Nick Swain Vice-President: Esther Davies; Richard Reid Immediate Past President: Julia Ryan Hon. Treasurer: Vacant, Julia Ryan A/g Hon. Secretary: Vacant Councillors: Patricia Clarke; Tony Corp; Peter Dowling; Allen Mawer; Marilyn Truscott; Ann Tündern-Smith, two vacancies Honorary Executive Officer: Helen Digan CDHS CanBerra Historical Journal Editors: David Wardle and Kay Walsh (Published two times each year) CDHS CanBerra History News Editors: Ann Tündern-Smith, Sylvia Marchant and Karen Moore (Published four times each year) Location Curtin Shopping Centre, Curtin ACT (Entrance from Strangways Street car park, opposite the service station) Postal Address Phone PO Box 315, Curtin ACT 2605 (02) 6281 2929 Email Website [email protected] www.canberrahistory.org.au Facebook page CanBerra & District History https://www.facebook.com/groups/829568883839247/ Office Hours Tuesdays & most Wednesdays: 11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. Most Saturdays: 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon Monthly Meetings Conference Room, Telopea Park School, New South Wales Crescent, Barton Held from February to December on the 2nd Tuesday of each month Be sure to arrive between 5.00 and 5.30 pm, as the entrance then is locked until the meeting finishes, between 6.30 and 7 pm Front Cover: Annie Mercy Fallick, née Gale, one of the Pioneer Women of QueanBeyan descriBed By Nichole Overall in her presentation to the Society’s Monthly Meeting on 8 April. For more, please see page 8. Photograph courtesy Nichole Overall Canberra History News – Edition No. 467 – June 2018 2 Canberra History News The Newsletter of the CanBerra & District Historical Society Inc. Edition No. 467 ISSN 1839-4612 June 2018 The CanBerra History News is issued QUARTERLY in March, June, September and December of each year. Contents Calendar of CDHS Events 4 New Venue for July Meeting 4 Other events 4 June Guest Speaker: Malcolm Beazley 5 July Guest Speaker: Peter Dowling 5 Council Report: May 2018 6 Canberra Day Oration: Monday, 12 March 2018 The Unknown Soldier and the Centenary of ANZAC with Brendon Kelson 7 Monthly Meeting: Tuesday, 10 April 2018 Pioneer Women of Queanbeyan with Nichole Overall 8 Monthly Meeting: Tuesday, 8 May 2018, Is the ‘Kingo’ Heritage? with Marilyn Truscott and Nick Swain 9 Canberra and District Heritage Festival, 14-29 April 2018: ‘My Culture, My Story’ 10 Do You Know a Community Group Which Would Enjoy the Jefferis–Whelen Journals? 10 Jefferis-Whelen Journal Workshop, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11 Robert Digan, 18 January 1938 – 29 December 2017, by Ben Digan and Michael Hall 12 Tribute to Manuka Pool Swimmers by Frances McGee 14 What Do We Mean By ‘& District’? by Nick Swain 16 Two Members Get Plaques on Canberra’s Honour Walk! 17 A Tale Of Two Villages by Alastair Crombie 18 Tuggranong Post Office, NSW by Tony Curtis 19 Membership Matters 23 News from ArchivesACT 23 Note to Contributors 24 Note to Advertisers 24 Annual Subscription Form 25 The Canberra History News is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without permission. Views expressed in articles, reviews, etc., are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Society. Deadline for the June issue is Tuesday, 7 August 2018 Canberra History News – Edition No. 467 – June 2018 3 Calendar of CDHS Events Saturday Jefferis-Whelen Journal Presentation at Lanyon Homestead 2 June 2018 Fireside chat in the Barracks Espresso Bar and Eating House, 2.30-3.30pm Bookings by 31 May at Eventbrite: Lanyonfireside.eventbrite.com.au General Meeting: Malcolm Beazley on Celebrating Australia’s Educational Heritage: The Role of the Australian National Museum of Education Tuesday Dr Malcolm Beazley AM is the founder and Director of the Australian 12 June 2018 National Museum of Education at the University of Canberra (see p 5) Telopea Park School Conference Room, Barton Tea and coffee from 5pm (doors closed at 5.30pm) CDHS annual subscriptions due. You can pay by bank transfer, credit card July 2018 by phone or in person, cheque by snail mail or in person. See notice on page 25 of this newsletter with subscription rates, bank details, etc. General Meeting in a new **venue**: Peter Dowling on Paleopathology of Tuesday Australian Aborigines pre- and post-Contact (see p 5) 10 July 2018 **ALIA Conference Room, 9-11 Napier Close, Deakin** 5pm tea/coffee for a 5.30pm start General meeting: Jenne Kelson on A Musical Snapshot of History Tuesday Venue to be advised after July Council meeting 14 August 2018 5pm tea/coffee for 5.30pm start Annual General Meeting Tuesday Venue to be advised after July Council meeting 11 September 2018 5pm wine and cheese for a 5.30pm start General meeting: Jane Goffman on The History of Dickson and Planning for its Tuesday Future 9 October 2018 Venue to be advised after July Council meeting 5pm tea/coffee for 5.30pm start Members Night: Tell Us About Your Own Research Three to four speakers needed: Please advise the office or a Council Tuesday member 13 November 2018 Venue to be advised after July Council meeting 5pm tea/coffee for 5.30pm start ** New Venue for July meeting** (Telopea Park School is closed during holidays.) The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has kindly offered us their Conference Room for our July meeting. It is just inside the entrance of their building at 9-11 Napier Close, Deakin The CDHS Council will consider the location of future General Meetings the week afterwards, on 17 July. Other Events Third Wednesday Regional Studies Network every month CDHS, Curtin. 12.30 – 1.30 pm Living Stones exhibition and guided tours of the Church of St Andrew, 1 Wednesdays State Circle, Forrest. More information from Ann on 62812436 or David on 11.15 am – 12.15 pm 0402215303 Thursday mornings 10.00 am -12.30 pm A Tale of Two Villages exhibition First Sunday Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre, Victoria St, Hall. every month Groups by appointment with <[email protected]> or phone: 0408 259 946 11.00 am – 4.00pm, Friends of Black Mountain Symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Black Mountain Reserve 2018 CDHS members are invited to contribute. Contact Julie Hotchin at <[email protected]> or on 0438 516 972 for more information. Canberra History News – Edition No. 467 – June 2018 4 June General Meeting Guest Speaker: Malcolm Beazley Canberra born, Dr Malcolm Beazley AM, has been a teacher, academic, administrator and writer for over fifty years. He has been an educational consultant to both local and federal governments and has written and edited numerous publications and articles. His career has been marked by a Fulbright Award in 1982, when he researched programs in the USA, which focused on the development of language and writing abilities in children. He was made a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators in 1987 and a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 1991 Queen’s Birthday Honours for his pioneering work in the application of state-of-the-art technologies to pedagogy both in Australia and overseas. Through the Computer Pals Across the World (CPAW) organization, which he founded in 1983 and which is now based at the University of Central Florida, USA, he has become known as the Father of Social Media. As the Founder and Director of the Australian National Museum of Education, at the University of Canberra, his current research is on the history of education and schooling. He has a great interest in global issues and in building bridges between the peoples of this planet. July General Meeting Guest Speaker: Peter Dowling Dr Peter Dowling is a CDHS Council member. He studied archaeology, Australian history and biological anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in the biological consequences of European and Aboriginal contact. His doctoral thesis examined the distribution and effects of introduced diseases into the Aboriginal population of Australia from 1788 to 1900. After working for many years in the fields of archaeology, history and biological anthropology, Peter is now trying hard to retire and to further his work on paleopathology of the Australian Aborigines. He summarises his talk to the July General Meeting thus: It is well known that, following the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and the subsequent European colonisation, the indigenous populations of Australia suffered severe losses. In many areas populations which had existed for as long as 50,000 years were reduced to very few numbers in a matter of 100 years. It was a crucial period in the human history of Australia. Many historians writing about the early contact period have given introduced diseases as the major cause of population collapse but have not elaborated further. Which diseases were responsible for the population decline, when and where did they occur, how severe were they, and which diseases were more responsible for population collapse? What were the diseases that afflicted Aboriginal populations before the arrival of Europeans? In this talk Peter Dowling will discuss these diseases and provide answers to these questions. Back copies of the Canberra Historical Journal (Nos 1–60) are available from the CDHS Office for $1 each, unless they are judged to be rare (less then ten copies on hand). Rare editions sell for $10 each. Later editions are priced at $4 each unless they (editions 71 and 78) are rare.
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