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	About CDHS
		The Canberra & District Historical Society is one of the oldest community organisations in Canberra, founded on 10 December 1953.
		Canberra Day 1963 marked an important milestone in the Society's history when JD Anthony, Minister for the Interior, officially handed over Blundells Farmhouse as the headquarters of the Society.
		As foreshadowed by the Canberra Times on 9 December 1953, it then decided the time had come to look more closely at the relationship of the history of Canberra to the history of Australia.
	www.canberrahistory.org.au /about.asp (1524 words)

	Canberra Albuquerque - Company History
		Canberra Albuquerque, Inc. (Canberra Albuquerque) is a $20 million, wholly owned subsidiary of Canberra Industries engaged in the development, manufacture, sale, and maintenance of state-of-the-art electronic equipment.
		Canberra Albuquerque operates on a program and project level with ISO 9001:2000 quality workmanship at every stage of development and production.
		Canberra is the world's leading provider of analytical instruments and systems used to detect, identify, quantify and monitor radioactive materials and serves a broad cross-section of nuclear enterprises including industries engaged in fissile material production, nuclear power, environmental monitoring and restoration, decontamination and decommissioning, and safeguarding Special Nuclear Material.
	www.canberra-abq.com /corporate (230 words)

	VisitCanberra - Australia's national capital - Attractions
		The essence of Australia’s culture, history and way of life is reflected in the national museums, galleries and institutions in Canberra.
		The Canberra region had a rich Indigenous and farming heritage long before Australia’s early politicians thought of choosing the area for the new federal capital in the early 1900s.
		Canberra is a city in a park, a landscaped capital carefully designed to transform with the four distinct seasons.
	www.visitcanberra.com.au /CA256FCD00181C0A/SubHomePage?ReadForm&cat=ATTRACTION~&1=300-Attractions~&2=~&3=~&REFUNID=E6E2C374BD55E7B2CA256FCE00099491~ (683 words)

	Naval History/USS Canberra CA-70
		Canberra and her group continued unmolested to Ulithi, arriving 27 October, 2 weeks from the Jay she was hit.
		Canberra was recommissioned 15 June 1956, part of the sweeping revolution that is increasing the United States' seapower for peace.
		In the spring of 1958 Canberra was designated as ceremonial flagship for the selection of the unknown servicemen of World War II and Korea to be buried with honor at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.multied.com /Navy/cruiser/Canberra.html (959 words)

	Naval History/USS Canberra CA-70
		Canberra and her group continued unmolested to Ulithi, arriving 27 October, 2 weeks from the Jay she was hit.
		Canberra was recommissioned 15 June 1956, part of the sweeping revolution that is increasing the United States' seapower for peace.
		In the spring of 1958 Canberra was designated as ceremonial flagship for the selection of the unknown servicemen of World War II and Korea to be buried with honor at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.historycentral.com /Navy/cruiser/Canberra.html (959 words)

	HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		The second half of 1941 saw CANBERRA operating in the eastern Indian Ocean escorting convoys from Australia to Singapore and Ceylon and in the Tasman Sea.
		In August 1942 CANBERRA operated with the naval force supporting the American landings at Guadalcanal and Tulagi, operations which ended with her loss in the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942.
		CANBERRA was struck by two torpedoes on her starboard side and over 20 salvoes of 8-inch shellfire.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/canberra1.html (850 words)

	Short history at canberra house
		Canberra is one of those few cities whose design was the result of an international competition and the city has been developed to a plan since its establishment.
		He was influenced by ‘prairie school’ vernacular and landscape architecture and was thus able to visualise Canberra’s surrounding ranges and hills as providing a frame for the city, which was an important part of his design.
		Canberra’s population was 10,000 in 1939, with only a small number of public buildings and a very basic transport and communications network with Sydney and Melbourne, where the wartime economy would be concentrated.
	www.canberrahouse.com /resources/short-history (2134 words)

	history, Canberra city (state capital), Pictures
		The first phase of Canberra's history is bound up with Aboriginal inhabitation and white pastoral expansion.
		Archaeological evidence suggests that Aborigines were living on the limestone plains of present-day Canberra for at least 21,000 years before white settlement and possibly even longer.
		When, in 1899, a New South Wales Royal Commission was appointed to report on sites for a national capital, Canberra's pastoral days were numbered and it was about to become, in the words of one local commentator, “a good sheep station spoilt”.
	www.greatestcities.com /Oceania/Australia_Encarta_AU_edition/Australian_Capital_Territory/Canberra_city_state_capital/history.html (403 words)

	Canberra, Australia
		Canberra was named on 12th March 1913 and construction began soon after.
		He designed a triangle of avenues linking three circles, Vernon Circle in the commercial heart of the city, Capital Hill, which is the centre of the nation's government, and Russell, lying to the east.
		Lake Burley Griffin divides central Canberra, with the city centre, called the "Civic", on the north side and the parliamentary and embassy area on the south side.
	www.canberraeguide.com /orientation.php (364 words)

	History of Canberra
		Canberra's name comes from the Aboriginal word "Kamberra", meaning 'meeting place', apt for the city that became the nation's capital as a solution to the dispute between rivals Melbourne and Sydney.
		In 1954, as Canberra (now with a population of 39,000) was hit with a housing shortage, a Senate Select Committee was established to inquire into the development of the city.
		New town centres to the north and southwest of Griffin's Canberra were commenced with residents moving into the first new town, Woden, in 1964, followed by the establishment of Belconnen to the north in 1967, and Tuggeranong in the south in 1973.
	www.motherearthtravel.com /australia/canberra/history.htm (917 words)

	International Vegetarian Union - History of Vegetarianism - Early Australian Vegetarian Societies - Canberra
		The first vegetarians to have visited the site of Canberra were probably Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin in 1913, the American-born architects had won an international competition to design the new city.
		It also cannot be known for certain who was Canberra's first fully-fledged vegetarian citizen but it was most likely a public servant who came from another state who probably had adopted the diet as a believer in one of the religious groups that promote vegetarianism.
		Canberra continues to grow into a varied and cosmopolitan city and with it so does the vegetarian community.
	www.ivu.org /history/societies/australia3.html (1337 words)

	History
		The 1st Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry was held in Melbourne in 1977 prior to the establishment of the Federation.
		In 1985 the New Zealand Society of Genealogists rejoined the Federation and this confirmation of the wider scope of the Federation was confirmed by amendment of its constitution to reflect same.
		An inaugural dinner to launch the new Australasian Council was held at Canberra on 24 Jun 2002.
	www.affho.org /affho/history.php (1305 words)

	Rugby League History - RL1908.com - Canberra Raiders
		Canberra battled against a bid from Campbelltown for inclusion, and had to overcome concerns from Sydney clubs about travel costs to matches at Queanbeyan.
		Canberra was still in with a chance as they returned to the decider where they were to again play Penrith.
		Canberra's 1990 premiership team was found to have been over the NSWRL salary cap, which outraged the officials and fans of the other clubs.
	www.rl1908.com /Clubs/Canberra-Raiders.htm (1934 words)

	VisitCanberra - Australia's national capital - Attractions - History
		Canberra’s special contrast of nature and urban living was planned in 1912 by Canberra’s master designer, Walter Burley Griffin, a Chicago architect who won an international design competition.
		The Canberra Glassworks is a newly established attraction located in the former Powerhouse in the heart of the vibrant Kingston Foreshore Cultural Precinct.
		One of Canberra's most visible attractions, the Captain Cook Memorial Jet was inaugurated in 1970 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to commemorate the bicentenary of Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast of Australia.
	www.canberratourism.com.au /CA256FCD00181C0A/ATDW?ReadForm&cat=ATTRACTION~&subcat=ATTRACTHISTORY~&1=300-Attractions~&2=200-History~&3=~&REFUNID=0306A64E69E8837CCA256FD900180E5F~ (1232 words)

	Print History of Canberra (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Canberra was first settled by Europeans in 1824, when Joshua Moore bought the first land grant in the area, at the foot of Black Mountain.
		Canberra was named in 1913, from an Aboriginal term believed to mean 'meeting place', and an international competition to design the city was won by the American architect Walter Burley Griffin.
		Throughout the 60s the public service became Canberra's major industry, with departments shifting to the capital from all over the country, bringing with them hordes of happy families in search of a quarter-acre block to call their own.
	www.free-press-release.com /news/print-1152686924.html (525 words)

	Canberra Fashion & Style ClearlyExplained.Com
		Canberra fashion is largely influenced by the fashions of Sydney and Melbourne and these are in turn influenced by world fashions.
		Canberra history in started back in 1911 (when Canberra first came in to existance as the capital of Australia) and hence the fashions associated were influenced by the fashions at that time.
		Canberra fashion history can be considered in those periods such as the 1920s, 30s, 1940s, 50s, '60s, 70s and 80s and 90s.
	www.clearlyexplained.com /culture/fashion/canberrafashion.html (291 words)

	Canberra: Encyclopedia II - Canberra - Geography
		The surrounding bushland and the original bushland that Canberra was built in is a mixture of eucalyptus savanna, scrubland, swamp and dry eucalyptus forests.
		Until recently the Molonglo had a history of sometimes lethal floods; the area was a flood plain prior to the filling of Lake Burley Griffin.
		Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major American architect of the 20th century.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Canberra_-_Geography/id/622235 (978 words)

	History of Canberra - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The rail line between Canberra and Queanbeyan was built and opened for industrial use on May 25, 1914.
		Canberra Airport was added next to RAAF Fairbairn in the 1960s.
		This followed a bungled demolition display in 1997 in which a local Canberra girl, Katie Bender, was killed by flying debris when the disused former Royal Canberra Hospital was destroyed to make way for the new museum.
	education.music.us /H/History-of-Canberra.htm (2969 words)

	Australian Capital Tourism - Corporate Website - Media centre - About Canberra and the region - Brief history of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Farrer settled near Tharwa and for 11 years experimented to produce varieties of wheat resistant to drought and rust, suitable to the varying conditions of Australian farming - these experiments laid the foundations of the modern Australian wheat industry.
		The Commission was responsible for: completing establishment of Canberra as seat of government; developing Canberra as the administrative centre; creating the buildings, avenues, lakes, parks and other features appropriate to Australia's national capital; and designing living areas with high standards of amenities and attractive surroundings.
		Canberra was growing fast because of the transfer of Public Service departments in the 1960s, which meant that new towns were planned.
	www.tourism.act.gov.au /CA256E1D0083A261/page/Media+centre-About+Canberra+and+the+region-Brief+history+of+Canberra?OpenDocument&1=30-Media+centre~&2=50-About+Canberra+and+the+region~&3=10-Brief+history+of+Canberra~ (1022 words)

	Radical Tradition Main Index - an Australasian History page of working class struggle and anarchism
		This history brings alive the spirit of radical democracy and mateship in the trade union movement in the first decades of the twentieth century.
		In Mutuality Dr Bob James gives a a brief history lesson on the origin of Friendly Societies and Trade Unions, and presents a critique of the demutualisation debate.
		History, as a subject in school, is increasingly being neglected and relegated as unimportant.
	www.takver.com /history (3346 words)

	Travel in Canberra - ACT - Australia - History - WorldTravelGate.net®- (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The stone is the same as that used in St John's Church and Schoolhouse, locally quarried from Black Mountain and Mount Ainslie, its colours varying from the sunny gold of sandstone to a rock of contrasting darker reddish-purple colour.
		Transport and communications linking Canberra and Sydney gradually improved although a traveller in 1872 remarked that the road was very rough and in places there seemed to be no road at all only a dry watercourse.
		Now each year there is a Canberra Day where Canberrans are able to celebrate the physical beauty, and cultural diversity and vibrancy of their city.
	www.australiatravelling.net /australia/act/canberra/canberra_history.htm (3677 words)

	Our History - Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn evolved from the Diocese of Goulburn, which was itself created on 17 November 1862.
		The place name Canberra is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning 'meeting place', a rather appropriate name for the seat of federal parliament.
		In 1928 Canberra was established as a parish.
	www.cangoul.catholic.org.au /about/history.htm (1662 words)

	Canberra, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The vision for a garden city continues to influence Canberra's development with over half her area still reserved for parkland.
		In the centre of the city, the Canberra Centre forms the busy shopping hub, surrounded by evidence of the Sydney and Melbourne influence in the beautiful historic buildings that date back to the establishment of the city.
		Most of the city centre is connected by pavements, and a day can easily go by as you wander around enjoying the specialty shops and sidewalk cafes that give the city her cosmopolitan feel.
	www.worldfacts.us /Australia-Canberra.htm (1730 words)

	Squadron.com
		History: The Canberra had its origins in 1944 as a replacement was considered for the unarmed, high speed high altitude DH Mosquito.
		During flight testing it became obvious that the Canberra was a success beyond expectation, its maneuverability more like contemporary fighters than a bomber.
		As a tribute the brilliance of the design, the Canberra was still in operational service over fifty years from its debut.
	www.squadron.com /ItemDetails.asp?item=cf4128 (154 words)

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