Queensland Government immigration poster, c1891

2 March 2015
2 March 2015

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Queensland Government immigration poster, c1891. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

The defining feature of colonial Queensland was its high immigrant population.

Queensland, 1909

1 January 1909
6 December 2010
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

A notable feature of the early Chinese settlement in Queensland, as in other places where overseas Chinese societies developed, was a communal pattern of settlement.

Being Italian is central to the Queensland experience. Italians have literally shaped the landscape through sugarcane plantations.

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

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

Population Table, Queensland 1860-84, detail from Robert McLean (ed), The new atlas of Australia, Queensland, John Sands, Sydney 1886, p 11
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