Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

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Who Really Stole Christmas?
BySite Admin December 17, 2018March 7, 2024

Since the Middle Ages Christmas had been celebrated in much the same way as today: 25 December was the High Holy Day on which the birth of Christ was commemorated and it kicked off an extended period of merriment, lasting until Twelfth Night on 5 January. Churches held special services; businesses kept shorter hours; people…

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The First Australians & the City of Canada Bay
BySally Jerapetritis July 7, 2023July 29, 2023

Prior to settlement. the area now known as the City of Canada Bay was occupied by the Wann-gal clan (also often referred to as ‘Wangal’) whose name was derived from the word for their country. The Wann-gal were a clan of the Darug (sometimes spelt Dharug) tribe or language group. They called themselves the Eora,…

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Why are we the City of Canada Bay?
BySite Admin April 11, 2021

Portion of a diary kept by a French-Canadian exile, François Maurice Lepailleur, whose group had been landed at the original wharf at what is now called Bayview . . . Wednesday, 11 March 1840. Today we disembarked from the Buffalo to go to work for the government. It was half past nine in the morning…

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Mortlake
BySite Admin September 18, 2017

Sydney is made up of many fascinating suburbs and areas, many of which are such a normal part of Sydneysiders lives that they spare little thought for the history of these areas, let alone for the names they go by. Today most are simply residential suburbs, home to countless families. Mortlake is just one such…

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Land of a Thousand Sorrows: Revisited
BySite Admin May 18, 2020

A documentary, which follows the unknown and untold story of 58 Canadian patriots from Lower Canada, sent into exile in the penal colony of Australia from 1840-48, was to have been released in May this year with three particular ceremonies: May 18, Bayview Park, 50th anniversary of the unveiling of the memorial in Concord; May…

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“Conduct Prejudicial”
BySally Jerapetritis November 10, 2022December 27, 2022

Conduct Prejudicial to Good Military Order The first casualties of the Gallipoli campaign occurred several months before the landing at ANZAC Cove. The arrival of 20,000 Australian soldiers in Cairo in the weeks prior to Christmas 1914 attracted a swarm of those keen to exploit this as a money-making opportunity. Historian Dr. Peter Stanley quotes…

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Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

Who Really Stole Christmas?

The First Australians & the City of Canada Bay

Why are we the City of Canada Bay?

Mortlake

Land of a Thousand Sorrows: Revisited

“Conduct Prejudicial”

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