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Crowley, F. K. Australia's Western Third: A History of Western Australia from the First Settlements to Modern Times. (Macmillan, 1960). Davis, Russell Earls. A concise history of Western Australia (Woodslane Press, 2019). Forrest, Kay. The challenge and the chance: The colonisation and settlement of North West Australia 1861-1914 (Hesperian ...
The study of Aboriginal history in Western Australia has been enhanced in recent years by people like Lois Tilbrook [13] who have started collecting information and records on key Aboriginal Families in WA. Due to the comprehensiveness of the records of the Department of Native Affairs, more is known about Aboriginal families than about most ...
July 1836 The West Australian Missionary Society brought Louis Giustiniani, an ex-Catholic priest, to Western Australia with his wife and two catechists (Waldecks), and travels to a site previously purchased by the "West Australian Missionary Society"in Middle Swan to begin his work. He was appalled at the way in which settlers were competing ...
Patrick Durack (March 1834 – 20 January 1898) was a pastoral pioneer in Western Australia. [1] His family were struggling tenant farmers from Magherareagh near Scarriff in County Clare, Ireland, who moved from Ireland to New South Wales in 1853. Two months after arriving in New South Wales, his father, Michael was killed accidentally.
C. Anne Camfield; Thomas Carey (Australian politician) Julian Carr (politician) Fred Carter (convict) George Cheyne (settler) Alfred Chopin; William Chopin
Robert Menli Lyon (born Robert Milne; 1789–1874) was a pioneering Western Australian settler who became one of the earliest outspoken advocates for Indigenous Australian rights and welfare in the colony. He published the first information on the Aboriginal language of the Perth area.
John Nicol Drummond (1816–1906) was an early settler in Western Australia. He became the colony's first 'Inspector of Native Police', and helped to explore the Champion Bay district before becoming one of the district's pioneer pastoralists.
The name was a pars pro toto for Western Australia. On 6 February 1832, the colony was renamed the Colony of Western Australia, [3] [4] when the colony's founding lieutenant-governor, Captain James Stirling, belatedly received his commission. However, the name Swan River Colony remained in informal use for many years.