Contents

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Metric Conversions

Acknowledgements

Note to Readers

1Aboriginal Mission Tourism in Nineteenth Century Victoria

1.1Aboriginal Mission Tourism in Colonial Victoria: an Overview

1.2Methodology and Sources

1.3Histories of Coranderrk

1.4Studies of Tourism at Coranderrk

1.5Coranderrk Aboriginal Station – a Brief History

1.6About This Book

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2Tourism at Coranderrk

2.1Tarra Bobby, the Brataualung, and Acheron Station, April 1860

2.2Rev. Robert Hamilton’s Impressions of Coranderrk, August 1864

2.3Making progress at Coranderrk 1865

2.41866 Intercolonial Exhibition

2.5The Northern Wathawurrung Visit the ‘Blackfellow’s Township’, March 1866

2.6Daniel Matthews, May 1866

2.7Joseph Shaw’s Visit to Coranderrk, 1868

2.8Sale of Coranderrk Baskets in Melbourne

2.9R.H. Otter, 1872

2.10James Whitelaw Craig, March 1875

2.11Healesville in the 1880s

2.12Hawkers at Coranderrk

2.13Garnet Walch’s Request for Information: ‘Visitors Not Refused But Not Invited’

2.14Massina’s 1888 Visitor Guide

2.15Healesville in the Early 1900s

2.16Elinor Clowes and Coranderrk

2.17Officers from the American Fleet 1908

2.18The Gift of Boomerangs, October 1909

2.19The Companion Guide to Healesville

2.20Raffia Work, 1909

2.21South African Cricket Team, February 1911

2.22Temptations in the Tourist Resort of Healesville, 1911

2.23Healesville Shire Council: Coranderrk ‘Will Ruin Healesville as a Tourist Resort’

2.24Rev. Frederic Chambers Spurr – Impressions and Experiences of Coranderrk

2.25Communal Sharing of Blankets, 1919

2.26Tourism in the 1920s – Before the Closure of Coranderrk

2.27Mrs Aeneas Gunn, Coranderrk, and John Terrick

2.28Dame Nellie Melba and Coranderrk

2.29Lanky Manton and Alick Mullett at the VFL Preliminary Final, October 1921

2.30Agnes (Annie) Edwards Visits Coranderrk, January 1923

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Appendix 2.1 Spurr’s (1915) Reminiscences of Coranderrk

3Researchers and Coranderrk

3.1Enrico Hillyer Giglioli, May 1867

3.2Henry Nottidge Moseley, March 1874

3.3Désiré Charnay, November 1878

3.4Rev. John Mathew, January 1909

3.5L.W.G. Büchner, May 1912

3.6Professor Felix Ritter von Luschan, 1914

3.7J.M. Provan’s Views on the Research Value of Retaining Coranderrk, 1921

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Appendix 3.1: Giglioli’s (1876) Account of his 1867 Visit to Coranderrk

Appendix 3.2 Moseley’s (1892) Account of his 1874 Visit to Coranderrk

Appendix 3.3 Désiré Charnay’s (1881) Report of His 1878 Visit to Coranderrk

Appendix 3.4 Désiré Charnay’s (1880) Account of His November 1878 Visit to Coranderrk

4International Dignitaries and Their Impressions of Coranderrk

4.1Sir William Henry Gregory, Former Governor of Ceylon, February 1877

4.2James Anthony Froude, February 1885

4.3The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, Viscount Tarbat, November 1886

4.4Lady Brassey, June 1887

4.5Lord Brassey and family, October 1897

4.6Officers from the Italian warship Puglia, September 1901

4.7Dr Henry Lowther Clarke, Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, September 1904

4.8Sir Reginald Arthur James Talbot, Victorian Governor, October 1904

4.9Alfred Hugh Fisher, Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office, June 1910

4.10Lord and Lady Denman, March 1912, April 1913

4.11Sir Arthur Lyulph Stanley, Victorian Governor, April 1919

4.12Sailors From H.M.S. Renown, May 1920

4.13Lord Northcliffe, September 1921

4.14The British Squadron and Members of the Methodist Church, March 1924

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5Journalists and Correspondents and Coranderrk

5.1An Easter Trip to Mount Juliet, April 1864

5.2With ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ on the Upper Yarra, July 1866

5.3Notes of a Trip to the Black Spur, March 1868

5.4A Week on the Yarra Track by “Beppo”, January 1874

5.5‘Our Sable Brethren Live in Semi-civilized Comfort’, November 1874

5.6Coranderrk – ‘Well Worth a Visit, But Go On a Week Day’, January 1875

5.7Cricket at Coranderrk, April 1876

5.8‘Under the Impression that Coranderrk Belongs to Them’, September 1876

5.9John Stanley James, aka ‘The Vagabond’, and Coranderrk

5.9.1‘A Peep at the Blacks’: The Vagabond’s First Visit to Coranderrk, March 1877

5.9.2A Second Visit from ‘The Vagabond’, May 1885

5.9.3The Vagabond’s 1893 Visit to Coranderrk

5.10‘Melbournensis’, Yering, and the Black Spur, January 1881

5.11Melton Prior and Coranderrk, January 1888

5.12A Cricket Match: Coranderrk versus St John’s Cricket Club, November 1892

5.13A Camping Holiday on the Coranderrk Creek, January 1894

5.14‘Amongst the Black Fellows’ by J.D.C., November 1911

5.15A Picnic at Coranderrk, March 1914

5.16‘How Would You Like To Be Forced to Move to Germany?’ January 1918

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6William Barak and Coranderrk Tourism

6.1Oscar Comettant, 1888

6.2Arthur Baessler, 1892

6.3R.H. Mathews, 1903

6.4M.L. Hutchinson, 1903

6.5Sister Agnes (Agnes Row), 1911

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Appendix 6.1 Oscar Comettant’s Entry on William Barak

Appendix 6.2 Arthur Baessler’s Chapter on William Barak

7Coranderrk, Photographs and Tourist Postcards

7.1Nicholas Caire

7.2James Ricalton, Underwood & Underwood Photographer, 1908

7.3Healesville photographers: Ernest Samuel Fysh and J. & O.H. Kercheval

7.4Weddings at Coranderrk

7.4.1Five Weddings at Coranderrk in the Same Ceremony, April 1868

7.4.2Hugh McRae and Lizzie Hamilton Wedding, 2 August 1909

7.4.3Willie Russell and Julia Sherwin, March 1910

7.4.4John Terrick – Ellen Darby Wedding, 7 July 1910

7.4.5Alick Mullett and Violet Manton Wedding, October 1910

7.4.6William Logan and Priscilla Johnson Wedding, 18 July 1917

7.5A Congregational Minister Visits Coranderrk, September 1917

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8Tourism at Coranderrk After Its Closure In 1924

8.1The Closure of Coranderrk, February 1924

8.2Frank Latimer and Henry F. Sennett, Art Exhibition October 1924

8.3Six residents remain at Coranderrk, June 1925

8.4The Mantons move to Lake Tyers, December 1927

8.5Meeting Mrs Dunolly, August 1930

8.6Conclusion

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Appendix 8.1 Portraits of Coranderrk Station Managers and Their Families

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Index