Corporate Body
Western District Pastoral and Agricultural Society (1859 - 1873)
- From
- 1859
Victoria, Australia - To
- 1873
- Functions
- Association, Society or membership organisation and Agricultural industry
Summary
The central and western regions of Victoria were rapidly populated in the years following Major Mitchell's explorations of the area in 1836. By 1859 the area had its own agricultural society in the Western District Pastoral and Agricultural Society. In 1873 this Society merged with the Ballarat Pastoral and Agricultural Society from the neighbouring district.
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Published resources
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475887. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_w.html. Details
- Laidlaw, Zoë, 'Settler-colonial philanthropy and Indigenous dispossession' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 22-49, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 3 March 2000, Last modified: 8 May 2006
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