The Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment is involved in activities that concern the built heritage, the environment, agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture, and the management of property, titles, and maps. One of the Department’s predecessors, the Department of Environment and Planning, was sometimes involved in planning for the buildings occupied by children’s Homes.
Reeve House, run by the government, opened in about 1992 in Hadspen, near Launceston. As a family group Home, it provided temporary accommodation for children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Department of Community Services and its successors. Reeve House was still open in 2011. A married woman managed…
Eastville Receiving Home opened in Rokeby in 1979. The Home provided temporary accommodation for children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. It became Eastville Family Group Home in 1981. A married woman, known as a Receiving Home Keeper, managed Eastville with the assistance of her husband,…
The Overseas League was founded in London in 1910 by Sir Evelyn Wrench with the aim of strengthening relationships and fostering good will within the British Empire. It was based in England, and had branches across Australia. The Overseas League was involved in the migration of children from Britain to Australia, New Zealand, and Canada,…
M365 British Evacuee Children Nominated to Australia – Overseas League, contains correspondence between the Tasmanian government and the Overseas League between 1947 and 1950. The correspondence concerned the League’s scheme to bring British child migrants to Tasmania. The file also contains some newspaper clippings. There are no names of children. Access Conditions Open These records…
M440 Young Men’s Christian Association – Youth Migration Scheme contains correspondence between the Commonwealth Minister for Immigration, the Tasmanian Government Tourist and Immigration Department, and the Young Men’s Christian Association about the possibility of bringing British boys, aged between 14 and 16, to Tasmania as migrants. The correspondence suggests that this never happened. Access Conditions…
The Young Men’s Christian Association arrived in Launceston in 1880 and Hobart in 1882. It promoted a Christian all round development of young men from all kinds of backgrounds. The Association considered bringing some British boys aged 14 to 16 to Tasmania in 1947. However, this does not appear to have happened. In 2014, the…
Beaufront, in Ross, between about 1949 and 1958, provided temporary accommodation to some children arriving in Tasmania under the Big Brother Movement’s and Fairbridge Society’s migration schemes. According to the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania), Beaufront had been built for Arthur Smith in 1837. He sold the property to Thomas Parramore in the 1870s. By…
M903 [3] Big Brother Movement of Tasmania contains correspondence between the Big Brother Movement, the Social Services Department and its successor, the Social Welfare Department, and the Tasmanian Government Tourist and Immigration Department. It provides information about the formation of the Big Brother Movement in Tasmania and some of its early difficulties. The file contains…
The Select Committee Inquiry into Ashley Home for Boys was appointed on 18 October 1962 and again on 20 March 1963. It investigated the rehabilitation, discipline, work, and recreation of the boys at Ashley as well as its staffing. The Select Committee reported in 1963. The Select Committee seems to have been prompted by public…
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