emigrants

Queensland, 1909

1 January 1909

6 December 2010

Southern Sales Ltd

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Queensland, 1909. Published by Southern Sales Ltd, Brisbane. This map for potential immigrants compares state statistics between Queensland, new South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. As well as comparing vital statistics it includes railway mileage, acres under crops, sheep and cattle numbers, mineral production, schools and attendances. Through a detailed code and alphabetical index of all cities and towns details mileage from Brisbane, banks and postal and telegraph stations. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Lebanese in rural Queensland

The Lebanese community in Queensland began as a small relatively segregated group.

Queensland Royal Mail Steamers, London Emigration pamphlet, c1890. Note the route from London through the Suez Canal direct to Queensland. Courtesy Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Sugar planting in Queensland, Emigration pamphlet, The Times London, c1890 Courtesy Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Colonial immigration to Queensland

One of the first provisions made by the new Queensland Parliament in May 1860 was to encourage immigration to the vast land area encompassed by the newly declared colony. By the end of the yea