Waurn Ponds National School
Lou Lane’s article, Waurn Ponds National School, was published in Investigator Magazine Vol 26 No 3 in September 1991 Pp 116-119. In this short article, Lou Lane traces the little-known story of the Waurn Ponds (more…)
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GLASS – THE NOVEL MEDIUM
Lou Lane’s article “Glass – the Novel Medium” from Investigator, Volume 22, No. 4, December 1987, pp. 139–142. Members can also read that month’s issue online. You can also listen to a reading of the (more…)
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1800s | Latest News | Lou Lane | Queens Park | Wadawurrung
Geelong’s Canoe Tree
Louis N. Lane’s article “The Geelong Canoe Tree” from Investigator, Volume 23, No. 4 (December 1988). Members can read that month’s issue online. You can also listen to a reading of the article by clicking (more…)
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1800s | Indented Head | Latest News | Lou Lane | Wadawurrung
Understanding Wadawurrung Family Names
The following article revisits Lou Lane’s 1990 contribution to Investigator, in which she examines the naming customs of the Wathaurung (now Wadawurrung) people as recorded in early colonial journals. Drawing on Andrew Todd’s 1835 census (more…)
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THE WATHAURUNGS
Louis N. Lane’s article “The Wathaurungs” from Investigator, Volume 23, No. 3 (September 1988) Pages 96 -109. Members can read the original from that month’s issue online. You can now also listen to a reading (more…)
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The October Lecture Report
The Cowies Creek Confrontation of 1803 Speaker Report on the presentation by Harry Roberts at the October 1 Meeting Harry Roberts delivered a compelling presentation on the Cowies Creek Incident of 1803, inviting members to (more…)
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1830s Geelong | 1850s Geelong | David Fisher | Latest News | Notable People | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung
Letters from Pioneers to Governor La Trobe, 1853: No 6
David Fisher of Roslin, Geelong – 21 September 1853 David Fisher’s letter is a wide-ranging firsthand account of life in the Port Phillip District soon after first European settlement. It is included in the Letters (more…)
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1830s Geelong | Barwon Heads | Indented Head | J T Gellibrand | Latest News | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Robertson
Mr J.T. Gellibrand’s Memoranda of a trip to Port Phillip in 1836.
The author of Memoranda of a trip to Port Phillip in 1836 was Joseph Tice Gellibrand, a former Attorney General in Van Diemen’s Land (VDL) and one of the 15 members of the Port Phillip (more…)
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‘Knowing the Past, but not captive to it’
Hume and Hovell: ‘Knowing the Past, but not captive to it’ As its 200th anniversary draws near Michael O’Donnell reflects on Hume and Hovell’s epic exploratory journey, which reached the shores of Corio Bay near (more…)
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1830s Geelong | 1840s Geelong | 1850s Geelong | Foster Fyans | Letters | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Buckley
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…)
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1830s Geelong | Barwon Heads | Indented Head | John Helder Wedge | Port Phillip | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Torquay | Wadawurrung | William Buckley
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…)
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1820s Geelong | Hamilton Hume | Port Phillip | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Hovell | You Yangs
Hume and Hovell – Investigator Vol 1 No 5.
Hume and Hovell The fifth instalment of The Story of Geelong was published in the Investigator magazine during November 1966. It covers the overland exploration undertaken by Hume & Hovell during 1824 and it provides (more…)
