WEST AUSTRALIANA
History of the ‘Victoria’ District north of Perth WA. Includes accounts of early contacts and conflict between Aborigines and explorers and settlers.

The Victoria District (Irwin Greenough district)was the first British settlement outside the triangle of Perth, York and Albany, the first area where gold and coal were found in the colony; the first place for cotton to be planted and the first railway was built. This book includes accounts of early contacts and conflict between Aborigines and explorers and settlers. Within a few years, favourable seasons and natural grass made the district the “granary of the colony”, and the original settlers wealthy men. While ticket-of-leave me worked in the lead mines, on the stations and farms, the wealthy settlers fought for independence from a distant legislature, and women of all classes battled all the difficulties of isolation

‘”Sister Mary Albertus has brought to her study of the district not only a proven aptitude for thorough research but also a warm and sympathetic appreciation of the human qualities involved in opening up a district under pioneer conditions.”

First Edition. xv, 431 p., 8 leaves of plates ; 25 cm. , endpp. maps. (Edgewear to jacket.))

Includes index. Bibliography: p. 419-431.

#0216/0921