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The C. Y. O'Connor College of TAFE in Western Australia bears his in name. Statue of O'Connor and horse at C.Y. O'Connor beach. The Division of O'Connor, named after O'Connor, is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Western Australia. Originally it encircled the area around Perth, from Geraldton on the Indian Ocean coast to Albany ...
C.Y. O'Connor Beach It extends from McTaggart Cove in the south to Catherine Point in the north and is also known [ clarification needed ] as the CY O'Connor Reserve . [ 1 ] The C.Y. O'Connor sculpture is one of the features of the beach; the statue is situated in the ocean about 30 metres (98 ft) off the shoreline.
C. Y. O'Connor College of TAFE (also known as C. Y. O'Connor Institute), established in July 1994, is a Technical and Further Education institute servicing the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. [1] The institute is based in the town of Northam 97 kilometres (60 mi) east of the state capital, Perth.
C. Y. O'Connor c. 1890s. The scheme was devised by C. Y. O'Connor who oversaw its design and most of the construction project. Although supported by Premier Forrest, O'Connor had to deal with widespread criticism and derision from members of the Western Australian Parliament as well as the local press based on a belief that the scope of the ...
The Irish Australian engineer C. Y. O'Connor was involved in the design of a scheme that transported water to the Eastern Goldfields of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in the eastern part of Western Australia. The weir was completed in 1903. The lake created by the dam was known as the Helena River Reservoir, [1] it was renamed as Lake C.Y. O'Connor ...
But by then C. Y. O'Connor had been appointed the Colony's Engineer-in-Chief, and decided the best option was an inner harbour built in the mouth of the Swan River. The discovery of gold in Western Australia meant a working port was urgently needed, Parliament finally accepted O'Connor's plan after much political haggling, the capital was ...
Kathleen Laetitia "Kate" O'Connor (14 September 1876 – 24 August 1968) was an impressionist painter with a career in Western Australia and France. She was a daughter of the celebrated engineer C. Y. O'Connor .
O'Connor is a predominantly industrial suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Fremantle. It was established in 1955 and is named after the Irish engineer, C. Y. O'Connor , who is buried in Fremantle Cemetery .