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Title: | The Garden Point Mob |
Alternative Title: | Stories about the early days of the Catholic mission and the people who lived there, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the mission |
metadata.ebooks.dc.contributor.corpauthor: | Historical Society of the Northern Territory |
Alternative Title: | Stories about the early days of the Catholic mission and the people who lived there, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the mission |
Editor: | Brogan, Thecla |
Publication location: | Darwin |
Publisher: | Historical Society of the Northern Territory |
Publication date: | 1990 |
Notes: | Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT). |
Description / Abstract: | Published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Roman Catholic mission at Garden Point (Pularumpi) on Melville Island begun in 1940; consists of stories mostly from the early days, prepared by people who were taken to the mission as children in the 1940s and by some of the staff of the mission in the early days; includes evacuation to Melbourne in 1942 and return in 1945, conditions at the mission, dormitory life, education, recreation including hunting, bush trips and football. |
Physical Description: | x, 85 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: | 958809364 |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Melville Island Catholic Church Missions Aboriginal Australians Religion |
Subject Location: | Garden Point |
Citation address: | http://hdl.handle.net/10070/300919 |
Copyright owner: | Historical Society of the Northern Territory |
Appears in Collections: | E-Publications |
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The Garden Point mob.pdf | Report | 16.46 MB | Adobe PDF | ![]() View/Open |
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