Jean Devanny, Sugar heaven, 1936

Multiethnic gang of canecutters from Europe and the Pacific.

Copyright © Private Collection

Sugar cane train, 1948

Sugar cane train, 1948

Location

Australia
H20890
Queensland Museum
South Australia
1 January 1947
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
3150mm
2080mm
7100mm

South Sea Islander cane knife

South Sea Islander cane knife

Location

Erakala Mackay, QLD
Australia
21° 8' 28.356" S, 149° 11' 8.25" E
E16946
Queensland Museum
Mackay
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Erakala Mackay, QLD
Australia
21° 8' 28.356" S, 149° 11' 8.25" E
Dimensions
651mm
157mm

Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, c1888

Lower Burdekin, QLD
Australia
1 January 1888
26 October 2010
26 October 2010

Location

Lower Burdekin, QLD
Australia

James Cook University Archives, Townsville

A sketch plan of Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, Lower Burdekin, c1888. Pioneer Mill Records, Photograph 52, James Cook University Archives, Townsville

 

Commercial production of sugar commenced in Queensland during the mid-1860s.

Italians taking stools of cane to an agricultural show in north Queensland, photograph from Queensland Agricultural Journal, 1932. Collection of Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Monument to the pioneers of the sugar industry made of Italian marble. The monument was donated in 1959 by the Italian community of Innisfail, 1980. Postcard by Murray Views Pty Ltd, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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

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