Cairns : city of the South Pacific : a history 1770-1995 / Timothy Bottoms
- Bib ID:
- 6976621
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bottoms, Timothy (Timothy David Reis), author
- Description:
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- Edge Hill, Qld : Bunu Bunu Press, 2015
- ©2015
- xxiii, 610 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 29 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780994401205 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The township of Cairns was established in the wake of the Palmer River Gold rush of 1873, and established as a port for the Hodgkinson Goldfield in October 1876. After a tenuous start, Cairns became the terminus for the far North Queensland railway, servicing the inland mining districts. Chinese were instrumental in launching the sugar cane industry and South Sea Islander labour was important in sowing and harvesting in the 19th century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Pioneers -- Queensland -- Cairns Region -- History
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Queensland -- Cairns Region -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Cairns Region -- Social conditions
- Bama (Australian people) -- Queensland -- Cairns Region -- History
- Yirrganydji / Yirgay people (Y111) (Qld SE55-02)
- Gunggandji / Gungandji people (Y114) (Qld SE55-06)
- Settlement and contacts - Chinese
- Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Kanakas
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Sugar
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Settlement and contacts - Resettlement and removals
- Cairns Region (Qld.) -- History
- Cairns Region (Qld.) -- Race relations -- History
- Cairns Region (Qld.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Yarrabah / Cape Grafton (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Port Douglas (NE Qld SE55-01)
- Yungaburra (NE Qld SE55-06)
- Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Barron River (NE Qld SE55-02, SE55-05)
- Australian
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2015
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