The Graceville Centre was the new name given in 1974 to what had been known since 1903 as Graceville. A Salvation Army Rescue Home, Graceville had replaced Cornelie Home at Highgate. By1974 the Graceville Centre in Highgate was a complex of buildings accommodating: mothers and children temporarily; women aged 16-25 for alcohol rehabilitation; and, young…
The Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA held collections of photographs, memorabilia and historical information about Salvation Army Homes and activities in Western Australia. In 2022, on the retirement of the volunteers who ran the Museum, the Museum closed. Some materials were transferred to the Salvation Army Historical Records Department, and the remainder of the collection…
Yanay Yenma was the Aboriginal body that ran the Boomerang Youth Hostel, Geraldton from at least 1999 (possibly 1997) until 2009. In 2009, it passed the hostel management to the Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation.
The Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation is the organisation that ran the Boomerang Youth Hostel after it was transferred from the Yanay Yanma Aboriginal Corporation in 2010.
The Boomerang Youth Hostel, Geraldton began in 1979 as accommodation for Aboriginal youth attending the Geraldton Technical School. By 2005, the hostel accommodated up to 20 Aboriginal youth on a short-term basis. The youth hostel closed in 2011 and reopened in 2012 for people of all ages. The Boomerang Youth Hostel was called the Aboriginal…
The Aboriginal Boomerang Council Inc was established on 30 August 1977. From 1979, for an unknown period, the Council ran the Aboriginal Boomerang Council Youth Hostel in Geraldton. The Council was deregistered on 17 February 1997 and the whereabouts of records is unknown.
Gnowangerup Mission was established in 1926 by Hope and Hedley Wright on behalf of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission, on a 6.5 acre Government Reserve just outside Gnowangerup. In 1929 the Australian Aborigines’ Mission became the United Aborigines Mission and the Wright’s continued to run the Mission on their behalf. The Mission moved two miles out…
The Metropolitan Infectious Diseases began 1938 in Subiaco (later known as Shenton Park). It was previously the Victoria Hospital for Infectious Diseases. The Hospital offered rehabilitation for patients with polio and paraplegia. From 1956 it was known as the Shenton Park Annexe. After 1938 the focus of the Metropolitan Infectious Diseases Hospital encompassed the rehabilitation…
The Salvation Army Home for Neglected Girls was established in 1894 in Claisebrook Road, Perth (East Perth), for women and girls with a range of needs. The Home moved to Summers Street, East Perth in 1895. In 1898, new premises were built and the Home moved to Cornelie House in Lincoln Street (North Perth, Highgate)….
Cornelie Home was the name given in 1898 to the Salvation Army’s rescue Home when it moved to North Perth (Highgate) from Perth (East Perth). It accommodated single mothers, pregnant women, elderly women and women who had been released from prison. The 1900 report of the Aborigines Department showed that the Salvation Army Rescue Home…
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