Gold on the Palmer River and the series of rushes which resulted from 1873 attracted a large influx of Chinese initially from the southern colonies and then in thousands directly from China in numbers unprecedented in the Australian colonies. By the close of 1876 Chinese merchants and miners numbered 18,000, 90% of the total population. As the gold field administration was unable with the sheer pace of the incoming population, legislation was passed to prevent Chinese from mining on new gold fields
• In the last half of the 19th Century, a large number of China-born people came to Australia fleein...
The Chinese came to Tasmania ( 1875 - 1890) to work the alluvial tin fields of the North East. They ...
Among the Chinese who migrated to Australia, New Zealand and Canada from the mid nineteenth century ...
The series of gold rushes to the Palmer River in remote northern Queensland from 1873 attracted a la...
The series of gold rushes to the Palmer River in remote northern Queensland from 1873 were significa...
The discovery of gold in Victoria, Australia, in 1851 drew prospective miners from throughout the wo...
Alluvial gold discovered on the Palmer River sparked off a tremendous population movement from 1873 ...
looked very bright. The hardest of the pioneering days were over, closer settlement was taking place...
The first arrivals were indentured labourers, imported to Australia between 1847-53 when the colonia...
This study comprises six chapters of varying length, dealing with six separate aspects of the Palmer...
Alluvial mining for gold was from fi rst to last the almost sole cause of attraction for Chinese im...
The history of early Chinese migration to New South Wales, and the otherAustralasian colonies, is us...
From 1872, not long after the discovery of gold, North Queensland began to emerge as a leading regio...
© 2005 Dr. Keir James ReevesThis thesis interrogates the history of the Chinese on the Mount Alexand...
This study is primarily concerned with the Chinese communities in New South Wales and Victoria gen...
• In the last half of the 19th Century, a large number of China-born people came to Australia fleein...
The Chinese came to Tasmania ( 1875 - 1890) to work the alluvial tin fields of the North East. They ...
Among the Chinese who migrated to Australia, New Zealand and Canada from the mid nineteenth century ...
The series of gold rushes to the Palmer River in remote northern Queensland from 1873 attracted a la...
The series of gold rushes to the Palmer River in remote northern Queensland from 1873 were significa...
The discovery of gold in Victoria, Australia, in 1851 drew prospective miners from throughout the wo...
Alluvial gold discovered on the Palmer River sparked off a tremendous population movement from 1873 ...
looked very bright. The hardest of the pioneering days were over, closer settlement was taking place...
The first arrivals were indentured labourers, imported to Australia between 1847-53 when the colonia...
This study comprises six chapters of varying length, dealing with six separate aspects of the Palmer...
Alluvial mining for gold was from fi rst to last the almost sole cause of attraction for Chinese im...
The history of early Chinese migration to New South Wales, and the otherAustralasian colonies, is us...
From 1872, not long after the discovery of gold, North Queensland began to emerge as a leading regio...
© 2005 Dr. Keir James ReevesThis thesis interrogates the history of the Chinese on the Mount Alexand...
This study is primarily concerned with the Chinese communities in New South Wales and Victoria gen...
• In the last half of the 19th Century, a large number of China-born people came to Australia fleein...
The Chinese came to Tasmania ( 1875 - 1890) to work the alluvial tin fields of the North East. They ...
Among the Chinese who migrated to Australia, New Zealand and Canada from the mid nineteenth century ...