Letters from Victorian Pioneers to Governor La Trobe, 1853: No 18
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Letters from Victorian Pioneers to Governor La Trobe, 1853: No 18

Foster Fyans (1790-1870) played a significant role in the European settlement of Victoria and the dispossession of its Aboriginal people. This article examines a letter he wrote in 1853 about his experiences at that time. (more…)

Steam Packet Wharf, Macks Hotel, Geelong. Date: C1857 Artist: Samuel Thomas Gill (1818 - 1880)
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Geelong’s Early Development: 1839-1841 – Investigator – Vol 3 No 1

Geelong 1839-1841: its early development. In the first issue of 1968 the Ian Wynd, the editor of the Investigator magazine, continued his ‘Story of Geelong’. His focus in the February edition was the early development (more…)

Port Phillip map showing Wedge's explorations
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Wedge, Thomson and William Buckley – Investigator Vol 2 No 2

This is the seventh instalment of the Investigator’s series ‘The Story of Geelong’, published in May 1967. Using John Wedge’s journals and a subsequent map of his explorations the writer takes the reader along on (more…)

ROBERT MUIRHEAD – Investigator December 2021
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ROBERT MUIRHEAD – Investigator December 2021

of Yarram Yarram and Osborne House By Daryl Wight Robert Muirhead (1813? – 1862), shepherd and squatter, was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, son of John Muirhead.  He was already ‘accustomed … to the management of sheep’ (more…)