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Discovering Your Local History - Put On Your White Gloves

Ruth Gardiner from John Oxley Library, and Saadia Thomson Dwyer from Queensland State Archives, will present a range of treasures from their collections that relate to the Moreton Bay region. 

Participants will have the opportunity to closely view the items on display.

The original Whiteside Diaries will also be on display at this event.

Caboolture Library 07 5433 2000
Redcliffe Library 07 3283 0311

Dates / Times
Caboolture Library, 15 February 2012, 9.30am - 12.30pm
Redcliffe Library, 29 February 2012, 9.30am- 12.30pm

Cost: Free
Bookings: Bookings for this event are recommended.

The Heritage Talks : Preserving Surveying History

The Heritage Talks :  Preserving Surveying HistoryWednesday  9 November 2011 ,  10 am - 11:30 amProfessor Bill Kitson, Emeritus Curator, will talk about how the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying came to be. Free, morning tea included. Bookings are essential for catering purposes  please email museum.pinerivers@moretonbay.qld.gov.au<mailto:museum.pinerivers@moretonbay.qld.gov.au&gt; or phone (07) 3285 7213.

This will be the final Heritage Talk for 2011 - please keep an eye out for our exciting Heritage Talks program for 2012!

The Heritage Talks: An Early Pastoral History of Moreton Bay

Moreton Bay's resident walking encyclopaedia of local history,

Leith Barter, returns to talk about the early settlers and land owners of the area.

Morning tea included. Bookings are essential for catering purposes.

Date: 14 September 2011

Time: 10.00am - 11.30am

Location Pine Rivers Heritage Museum - Old Petrie Town, Dayboro Road, Whiteside
Cost: Free
Contact: Marie Trebilco
Pine Rivers Heritage Museum
Ph: (07) 3285 7213
museum.pinerivers@moretonbay.qld.gov.au link opens email message

“Charles Chauvel: A Pioneering Australian Film-maker.” – Susanna Chauvel Carlsson - 29.05.11, 2:00pm

Sunday 29th May

“Charles Chauvel: A Pioneering Australian Film-maker.” – Susanna Chauvel Carlsson

QUEENSLAND CHAPTER AUSTRALIAN HUGUENOT SOCIETY

Venue: Toowong Library Meeting Room, Toowong Shopping Centre, 9 Sherwood Road, Toowong, Brisbane

Time: 2:00pm

Cost: Members $5, Non-members $10

Refreshments served after meeting

Enquiries: Phone (07) 3202 9240

Time: 2:00pm

Date: Sun 29th May, 2011

Location: Toowong Library Meeting Room, Toowong Shopping Centre, 9 Sherwood Road, Toowong, Brisbane

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Maps

There are several maps in Heritage Collections – Map section.  Located on level four of the State Library of Queensland

• Tribal boundaries in Aboriginal Australia [Maps 904 04700c 1996] also available on the Internet http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/page/default.asp?site=2&page=TIN_Tribal

• Aboriginal Australian Language map, [M 804 1999 04700 F] Dr David Horton’s for AIATSIS (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) Represent all the language and tribal of the indigenous people of Australia also available on the Internet http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/pathways.asp

• Language Atlas. Pacific Area. Part I 1981 [Maps 910 00000e 1981] Maps of New Guinea area, Oceania, Australia and Torres Straits Region. show the language situation as it appears to have existed at the time of the first European settlement at the end of the 18th Century.

• Northern Territory of Australia Pastoral Map (1953) [Maps 870 02000r 1953] Northern Territory Road Plan (pre 1951). These two sheet maps details include bores, waterholes, pastoral stations, missions, reserves and stock routes.

• History of Cartography: V, 2 Bk 3 edited by Woodward and Harley 1998 [MAPREF 526.09 1987] A wide range of media were, and in some regions are, used by indigenous Australians in representing sites and landscapes and their totemic and mythic figures”.

• Pacific Island Names: a Map and Name Guide to the New Pacific By Lee S. Motteler 1986 [MAPREF 912.9 1986]. Provide names and relationships of the Pacific Island groups. The alphabetic index contains in addition to all island names listed, numerous variant names not shown elsewhere e.g. Indigenous and colonial name.  Chelbacheb = (Rock Islands) in Belau.

• The Land is a Map : Place names of Indigenous Origin in Australia [MAPREF 919.4003 2002]. Index to Places and Place names and an index and Languages and Language Groups at the back of the volume.

• Atlas of Queensland and the Northern Territory Pastoral Stations; Atlas of Central Queensland Pastoral Stations [ATLAS 912.943 1995] An alphabetic index of Property Names for New South Wales, Queensland and eastern sections of Northern Territory. They are useful for finding rural centres and properties.

• Country Matters: Social Atlas of Rural and Regional Australia [GSB 338.1894 2004]. Population distribution and structure, examines Australian demographics. There are sections of statistics including Indigenous Population and Change in the Number of Indigenous People, 1991-1996.

• Brisbane ..A Social Atlas (2002) [MAPREF 319.43 102232002] and Gold Coast Region.. A Social Atlas (1994) [MAPDESK 912.13120994 1994] ABS publications give a picture of the key social, demographic and economic characteristics of an area’s population.

Family History Introductory Course - 20.06.10, 9:00am

20 June 2010 commencing at 9.00am. 

Learn how to commence your searching your family history throught this one day course at the Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ).  GSQ has been assisting family historians search their genealogy for over 30 years.  Cost $50 for members of GSQ and $55 for non members. 

Bookings essential.  Book online http://www.gsq.org.au/services/events.htm

or complete pdf form and send to GSQ. 

Phone 3891 5085 or email gsq1@optusnet.com.au for further information.  You can pay securely online at www.gsq.org.au/events 

Time: 9:00am

Date: Sun 20th Jun, 2010

Location: 38 Fisher Street, East Brisbane

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My address is: 38 Fisher Street, East Brisbane

My phone number is: 07 38915085

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