Before Canberra

Before Canberra – BC

Two posts per week, generally Monday and Thursday, (Eastern-Australia, Canberra time) are updated to this BC blog, to build a profile of Australia’s past and present history – especially items that relate to the Queanbeyan-Canberra Region.

Before Canberra will be officially launched in 2011

Photos are restricted at present, until my computer wizard “Nemo” investigates and finds a “gallery,” which will best serve the needs of this site – apologies to people who attended the Queanbeyan ANZAC Day events on April 25, 2010 and are waiting to see their photos.

Themes

Aboriginal people; Australia & Australians; the Arts; convicts, bush-rangers, pioneers and immigrants; facts, fiction, fire, flood and fortune; murder, mystery and legends; politics and place; general interest and genealogy; including the Queanbeyan & Canberra Symbiosis – the good and the bad of being a sister city to Canberra.

Reference

To show that Connee is trustworthy, posts are referenced and have footnotes so they can be checked – please let me know of any necessary corrections.

Comments

Visitors to the site are welcome to make comments, but these need to be approved before they are visible – so you will have to be patient and apply if you want to see your comments published.

Approval’s do not give you the same freedom as on other social networking sites, but some restrictions are necessary so as to avoid those visitors to the site who may want to contaminate the site.

Waiting for approval is unavoidable as trying to clean up the site after the event would be very time consuming and the site may not recover – please accept my apologies for some unavoidable restriction.

Weekly Column

Connee-Colleen started as a free-lance-writer; writing for the Queanbeyan Age, the local newspaper, in 1985.

During the past five years Connee has had her own column.

The column was first called “Queanbeyan Outlook with Connee-Colleen” and numbers one to 46 were published in the Queanbeyan Age on Tuesdays from February 8, 2005 to June 27, 2006 (holidays excepted); at that time the Queanbeyan Age was published twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays.

The title of the column was changed to “Connee-Colleen Queanbeyan Outlook” when the Queanbeyan Age became a weekly paper and numbers 47 to 234 were published every Friday from July 7, 2006 to June 4, 2010 (holidays excepted) and are expected to continue in the near future; any change will be notified on this site.

The Queanbeyan Age

John Gale was the founder of the Queanbeyan Age newspaper and the first edition was published on September 15, 1860 under the banner of the Golden Age. The Golden Age name was changed to The Queanbeyan Age in 1864.

The Queanbeyan Age is still being published in 2010 – this site uses the Queanbeyan Age and the Queanbeyan Observer newspapers, extensively, for research into the history of this area, the Queanbeyan-Canberra Region; or information that John Gale (or his family) thought the local people should be aware of like the BC post on “Canadah Camels – Australian Imports 1868″, the original article the 2010, BC post is based on, was published in the Queanbeyan Age, February 8, 1866, under the title “‘The Camels and Donkeys’ – South Australian Register”.

Canberra will celebrate 100 years on March 12, 2013.
Canberra – celebrated its 97 birthday on March 12, 2010.
Canberra – proclaimed Australia’s capital March 12, 1913.
Canberra – population is about 300,000 people.

Queanbeyan will celebrate 175 years on October 3, 2013.
Queanbeyan – celebrates its 172 birthday on October 3, 2010.
Queanbeyan – proclaimed City of Queanbeyan July 5, 1972.
Queanbeyan – celebrated 100 birthday on October 3, 1938.
Queanbeyan – constituted a municipality-Council 1885.
Queanbeyan – proclaimed village October 3, 1838.
Queanbeyan – population about 38,000 people.
Queanbeyan – is the Sister City of Canberra.
Queanbeyan – birthplace of Canberra.
Queanbeyan – gateway to Canberra.
Queanbeyan – before Canberra.

Disclaimer

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this site contains images of, and information on, people who have passed away.

Copyright & Moral Rights

All content on Before Canberra © Connee-Colleen (including moral rights), unless otherwise acknowledged; apologies extended in advance if inadvertently a copyright has not been acknowledged; please inform so this can be rectified.

BC blog “life”

Mid 1990s: A bloke named “Nemo” who knows a lot about computers set up Connee’s first web site called: “John Gale – Father of Canberra” but the technical operation was beyond Connee’s capabilities; in subsequent years Nemo started other web sites including earlier versions of “Before Canberra” and for the same reason they were never continued and just faded away.

New start 2008: Nemo set up a new BC blog in September, 2008 but Connee was intimidated by the expertise she thought she needed and by other blogs, which she had looked at.

Christmas 2009: Nemo asked why nothing was happening on the BC blog and was informed that Connee had nothing to write about and it was technically difficult; Nemo replied that the “Connee-Colleen Queanbeyan Outlook” column was all Connee needed to start and showed her how easy blogs were and how the process had improved during her “learning” period.

January 1, 2010: The development of BC in the present format started and pages that were published in 2008 were removed so references and footnotes could be added. NB: In Connee’s ignorance she changed some of the 2008 “permalinks” and gave them new names, so during searching you will find some old pages are coming up as errors (and also a few recent pages – memory lapse – sorry).

Eventually missing pages from 2008 will be updated with reference, footnotes and comments and will be back on this site.

February-April, 2010: In February Connee started updating extra posts to build the site; but unavoidable technical difficulties prevented updates between February 13, to April 23, 2010.

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NB: This page was last updated: June 10, 2010.