Colonial Columns – Page 2 – Christopher Dawson

Colonial Columns: An 1860s Look at the Gulf Country

A description of life around the far northern settlements of Cloncurry and Normanton in the 1960s.

Colonial Columns: Mount Coot-tha in 1929

Mt Coot-tha, 1910. (Queensland Historical Atlas)

A description and history of Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane, from 1929.

Colonial Columns: ‘Observations made on a journey to the natives at Toorbal, August 1841’ (Part Two)

The vivid description of missionaries journeying a few day’s north of Brisbane in 1841, and their encounters with various Aboriginal peoples along the way. Part Two.

Colonial Columns: ‘Observations made on a journey to the natives at Toorbal, August 1841’ (Part One)

Extract from Carl F. Gerler's sketch of the German Mission Station at Zion's Hill, 1846. (John Oxley Library)

The vivid description of missionaries journeying a few days north of Brisbane in 1841, and their encounters with various Aboriginal peoples along the way. Part One.