The Unemployed Boys’ Farm at Wokalup was established on the Bundidup farm by the Ugly Men’s Association in 1932, for city-raised boys aged 14 to 18 years. Beginning with seven boys, 250 boys had been sent to the farm by 1937, either by the Child Welfare Department, by family or at the boy’s request. After…
The Mowanjum Collection: Barunga Bequest is a collection of items relating to people who lived at Mowanjum Mission. It is held by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Most of the collection dates from 1971 and it includes family history data. AIATSIS has prepared an online finding aid, known as…
Sunday Island Mission was re-established by the United Aborigines Mission after a brief period at Wotjulum (1934-1937). It returned to the original site of the Sunday Island Mission (1899-1934). Children at Sunday Island were under the guardianship of the heads of the departments responsible for Aboriginal welfare until 1963. Sunday Island Mission closed in 1964.
Wotjulum, near Yampi, was established by the United Aborigines Mission in 1934, with people transferred from Sunday Island. In 1937 Wotjulum closed and the mission returned to Sunday Island. Children at Wotjulum were under the guardianship of the heads of the departments responsible for Aboriginal welfare. In 1951, the Presbyterian Church opened a mission on…
Wotjulum, near Yampi, was established as a mission station by the Presbyterian Church in 1951, with people transferred from Kunmunya Station and the government station at Munja. Children at Wotjulum were under the guardianship of the Commissioners responsible for Aboriginal welfare. Wotjulum closed in 1956 and residents were transferred to Mowanjum, near Derby. Wotjulum, near…
Port George IV Mission began in 1912 at Walcott Inlet in the west Kimberleys, but by 1913 was located at Port George IV. It was run by the Presbyterian Church. Children living on the mission were under the guardianship of the head of the departments responsible for Aboriginal welfare, but they lived with their families….
The Benedictine Missionary Sisters were a group of Catholic religious women who ran what was known as St Joseph’s Native School and Orphanage, New Norcia from 1904 to 1974. The Benedictine Missionary Sisters were encouraged, according to Massam (2008, p.205) to value ‘poverty, hard manual work, separation from family, obedience to a superior, and dedication…
Ellensbrook Farm Home, near Busselton, was a government-run ‘farm home’ established in 1899 by the Aborigines Department. Up to 11 Aboriginal women and children were admitted for education and training. It closed in 1917. Ellensbrook Farm Home, on the south-west coast, was a ‘domestic-scale’ farm home for Aboriginal children and women. There is some doubt…
Papers [manuscript] is a collection of papers from Colin V. Alexander. The papers recount Colin’s memories of his boyhood at the Salvation Army Boys’ Home, Nedlands and include photocopies of references from the Home’s manager. Access Conditions Open. The collection is available to view at the State Library of Western Australia. Please contact them so…
Kellerberrin Preventorium is a collection of two items relating to the St Joseph’s Preventorium, held by the State Library of Western Australia. There is a reproduction of a letter written by Stuart Patterson, who was the donor who established St Joseph’s. There is also a copy of the Constitution of the Preventorium. Access Conditions Open….
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