Along the Road to Cue The race for gold that charms the bold Finds toil for men and beast And they, who left the East of old Are daily streaming East The whips that crack along the track Are strong, the horses too And strong the words the teamsters use Along the road to Cue […]
Archives for December 2017
The Cole’s Boys – a family story
29/12/2017 By 1 Comment
Sunday Times: 6 June 1920 COLE’S FIND NEAR WILUNA – HOW A RETURNED SOLDIER DISCOVERED A GOLDFIELD (By Horace Stirling) George Cole, the discoverer of Cole’s Find, 11 miles south of Wiluna, Is a scion of a family of 15, four of whom first saw the light within an interval of eleven months. His […]
George Edward HARRISON – grave tales
28/12/2017 By Leave a Comment
Several years ago I was sent the following two photographs by Lucy Hamilton. She was trying to find out how her Great uncle, George Harrison, had died. She had thought it was from a mining accident. However this doesn’t appear to be the case. It is most unusual, but I have not been able to […]
The Cork Tree and McCann’s Rush
28/12/2017 By Leave a Comment
Cork Tree was situated 24 miles from Laverton on the Erlistoun Road, and about 4km from Ularring. There was also a ‘Cork Tree Bore’ near Yundaga. The township was gazetted in 1896. In that same year Jack Bain and Ben Miller set up a ‘Pioneer Store’ called Bain & Miller Produce Store. In 1898 they […]
Matron Sadie Canning – people profile
28/12/2017 By 1 Comment
In Sep 2008 Western Australia’s first Aboriginal nurse/Matron died at the age of 78. Sadie Canning was a member of the Stolen Generations was taken away fro her parents at the age of four, she was placed in the Mt Margaret Mission, in the north eastern goldfields where she grew up. At 19 she travelled […]
