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Scandinavians in South Australia
Geographic Origins Scandinavia is a region in northern Europe. It includes Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Community Activities A number of…
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Scots
Many influential South Australians were Scottish-born or of Scottish descent, amongst them Mary MacKillop and Walter Watson Hughes.
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Scots in South Australia
Most of the Scots who immigrated to South Australia during the nineteenth century were from the overcrowded industrial cities of…
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Semaphore Migrant Hostel
Semaphore migrant hostel appears to have been home to young single men working in the area. Its proximity to the…
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Serbians in South Australia
Serbians migrated to South Australia from the 1940s – 1990s to escape various forms of prosecution and have since established…
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Singaporeans in South Australia
Singaporean migration to South Australia has occured from the early nineteenth century, however, when the Restriction Act 1901 was relaxed…
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Smithfield Migrant Hostel
Smithfield, when the migrant hostel opened, was an isolated rural area. It took about an hour by train to get…
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Stanhope Press
The Stanhope press brought to Holdfast Bay in 1836 was used to print the Proclamation of South Australia.
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Street Naming Committee
Colonial factions struggled over the names to bestow on Adelaide’s streets
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Survey Chain
Survey chain used by Isaac Guley in surveying the City of Adelaide with Colonel Light.
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Synagogue Place
Synagogue Place, named after the Synagogue built in 1850, has been the centre of the Jewish community in South Australia…
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Talking Our Way Home
Inspired by the handwritten letters of nineteenth and twentieth century migrants and the artist’s own experiences, Shaun Kirby’s installation functions…
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The first reading of the proclamation
The December 1836 proclamation at Holdfast Bay is South Australia’s best known historical event, despite it often being misunderstood
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The Immigrants
The Immigrants sculpture has been climbed on, sat on, stood next to and embraced by many people who have walked…
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The Proclamation
South Australia’s first vice-regal proclamation was read at Holdfast Bay on 28 December 1836
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Thomas Quinton Stow
Thomas Quinton Stow was born on 7th July 1801 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, a descendant of an old farming family.…
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Torrens Island internment camp
During the First World War hundreds of men – ‘enemy aliens’ – were interned on Torrens Island in the Port…
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Ukrainians in South Australia
The first significant wave of Ukrainians arrived in Australia during the years 1911 – 1915.
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Uruguayans in South Australia
Uruguayans first came to Australia in significant numbers in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Vietnamese in South Australia
Before 1975, the Vietnamese in Australia were either wives of ex-servicemen, students, or orphans who had come to Australia between…
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Voyagers
The lives and cultures of ‘Afghan’ cameleers are recognised in Whitmore Square
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W H Gray
William Henry Gray, born in London in 1808, came to South Australia in the early days of the colony, having…
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Welsh in South Australia
Welsh people have been arriving in South Australia with other migrants from the British Isles since the early years of…
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