Records of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia: Hope Vale Mission Board, reference number MS 2369, consist of photocopies of correspondence, reports, records and printed material from the Hope Vale Mission Board, Brisbane, Queensland. Access Conditions For access to this collection please contact the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)….
The Monthly Reports, Series ID 5145, contain a general overview of the children, staff and activities of the Townsville Orphanage and Townsville Receiving Depot per month. They include statistcs for number of children and staff at the institution, including numbers of new admissions, returns from placements, discharges, children boarded out, children hired out, and children…
The Hope Vale Mission, at Hope Vale, was run by Lutheran Church missionaries. Previously known as Hope Valley Mission, it was taken over by the Army in 1942 and residents were transferred to Woorabinda in southern Queensland. After World War Two, in 1949, a work party of former residents returned to re-establish the mission which…
The Hope Valley Mission, at Hope Valley, was run by Lutheran Church Missionaries. Previously known as the Cape Bedford Mission, it was established around 1896 and closed in May 1942. It reopened as the Hope Vale Mission in 1950. The Hope Valley Mission was established when the administrative centre for the Mission at Elim moved…
The Cape Bedford Mission, at Elim, was run by Lutheran Church Missionaries. It opened in 1886 and moved to Hope Valley around 1896. The Mission was founded by Reverend Johann Flier from Cooper Creek in South Australia. In November 1855 Flier was on his way to found a Mission in Papua New Guinea when he…
The Cooyar Mission, in Cooyar, was established by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in conjunction with the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. The facility housed Torres Strait Islanders evacuated from the Hammond Island Mission Orphanage and St Henry’s Roman Catholic Asylum due to the outbreak of World War Two. It opened…
This series contains over 10,000 correspondence files from various Queensland state government departments relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs. The files relate to matters including missions, child endowment, communities, adoption, welfare, medical treatment, education, employment, rations, evacuations, removals, housing, and living conditions. Approximately 500 of these files may contain information relevant to people…
This series contains the correspondence files of the offices of the Chief Protector of Aboriginals and the Director of Native Affairs, Queensland. The files relate to a wide range of matters, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Missions, Settlements, and Reserves, removals of people from land and children from family, marriages, exemptions, education, industries, health…
The Hammond Island Mission Orphanage, on Hammond Island, was run by the the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. It opened in 1929 and closed in January 1942, when the residents were evacuated to Cooyar. A boys’ dormitory housed the children. The orphanage reopened in 1948, ‘for only a short time’ (Deere, 1994). Hammond Island was…
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-Management) Act 1978 was an Act to empower Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders who live on reserves in Queensland to manage and control their own affairs.
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