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The Colony of Tasmania (more commonly referred to simply as "Tasmania") was a British colony that existed on the island of Tasmania from 1856 until 1901, when it federated together with the five other Australian colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia. The possibility of the colony was established when the Parliament of the United ...
Adam Armstrong (settler) Adam Pearson Armstrong (23 February 1788 – 28 September 1853) was an early European settler in the Perth suburb of Dalkeith, Western Australia. The suburb is named after Armstrong's cottage. [1] Armstrong influenced development in the Swan River colony with properties in both Dalkeith and in his later property in ...
Swan River (Western Australia) / 31.74278°S 116.06750°E / -31.74278; 116.06750. / 32.07361°S 115.71444°E / -32.07361; 115.71444. The Swan River ( Nyungar: Derbarl Yerrigan [2] [3]) is a major river in the southwest of Western Australia. The river runs through the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia's capital and ...
The Government of Western Australia was in acute debt when Hampton took over as governor. He immediately imposed strict cost-cutting measures, including using convict labour instead of contract labour whenever possible. Within a year the colony had recovered from its financial problems, and a few years later was on a firm financial footing. His sound financial management endeared him to the ...
Western Australia, a state of Australia and formerly a British colony, established its postal service soon after the British settled in 1829; in December of that year, Fremantle 's harbourmaster was appointed postmaster. A post office in Albany, Western Australia opened on 14 October 1834, and the main post office moved to Perth, in 1835.
Wallace Bickley. Rivett Henry Bland. George Brand (convict) Charles Edward Broadhurst. Edmund Ralph Brockman. William Locke Brockman. Peter Broun. Eliza Brown (settler) Thomas Brown (settler)
In the late 1846, the Swan River Colony's first mine was established in the area now known as Armadale. The mine was the first undertaking of the Western Australian Mining Company, formed that year, and the object was to extract lead or copper - the ores of both metals having been in evidence.
