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DID YOU KNOW THAT –

Mr Gamaliel Webster was born at Kingston and in his early 20s bought a tin mining claim on the west coast? He later owned and operated hotels at Trial Harbour and at Corinna in the 1880s and 1890s. He died at 46 years of age and his headstone was made of the local Huon pine. The headstone is in safekeeping and being restored at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston. (source: History Collection QVMAG)

there were 1,280 refugees of 13 different nationalities living in European camps many years after the war? They were astounded when they boarded the Gen C H Muir bound for Australia on Monday 25 September 1950. There is a souvenir edition (10 pages) of their voyage called ‘Daily Muiror’ that depicts their sometimes humourous exploits in cartoons and the German and Italian languages. (source: Queenstown Gallery Museum)

sometimes the first accommodation that our immigrants experienced was at Brighton camp in southern Tasmania?

there are still members of a group that called themselves, ‘The Liawenee Lads’? They were about 50 ex-Berliners living at Liawenee in sub-zero winter temperatures in 1951. Their fiftieth reunion was held in 2001. They made the black bear of Berlin their team emblem.

there has been a Tasmanian Football club in Berlin since 1900? It was first called the TFC 1900 and then TFC1973.

some post-war Dutch people settled in Tasmania and built their own village called Little Groningen at Kingston?

prior to WW11 the Greek community consisted of two families and are now believed to number 3,500 people?

a man called Antoni Martini was tried by the British in Portugal in 1811 and sentenced to 14 years transportation in Australia? He was sent to the Tasmanian colony.

Tasmanian farmers were home to 940 Italian POWs in May 1944? There were six main POW centres – Burnie, Latrobe, Redpa, Devonport, Launceston and Hobart.

there was a Convict Probation Station at Brown’s River Kingston?

a ship called the Montmorency sailed from Liverpool and docked in Launceston in 1855 disembarking 47 persecuted immigrants from Germany? They were sponsored, some of them by Longford farmers, and they later settled in the Lilydale district.

a Swedish sailor, John Ahrberg, oversaw activities at Corinna on the Pieman Heads from 1899 to1937?

A BRIEF HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AND MIGRATION