CAIRNS JUNIOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY

history

• general history of Cairns

transport - shake rattle and rollers

• wagons, shipping, Kuranda rail, steam, vehicular

strangers in a strange land - first contact, aboriginal history

• pre-european, post-european, first contact

exploration

• sea & land

government

• local, state, federal

  industry

• mining, timber, agriculture, aquaculture,

mysteries

• aboriginal cannibals - fact or fiction?

social history

• life, entertainment, education, leisure & holidays, medicine & health

  multi-culturalism

• japanese, chinese, signalese, kanakas, afghans, etc

tourism

law & order

• police, native mounted police, courts

defence force - wars and conflicts

• boer, russian conflict, ww1, ww11, conflicts following ww11

time warp

• how kids lived 150, 100, 50, 25 years ago
• diary entries
• newspaper
• photographs
• films
• maps
• religion - joss house, muslim, hindu, kanakas, christian, aboriginal

 ! how to join cairns junior historical society

about the cairns historical society

the cairns museum