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#19569 - My Canberra

Resource ID
Location
19569
Drawer No.5 & digitised
Title/subtitle
My Canberra
Author/Creator
Dalton, Teki
Format
Sound Recording
Publisher
Canberra & District Historical Society
Physical description
cassette tape, digitised
Summary
Tape of a talk delivered by a leading Canberra businessman to the Society's monthly meeting on 12 October 1999. A report on the talk is in Newsletter edition 366.
Dalton discusses his career as a bookseller, working for Cheshires, establishing Daltons Bookshop in Garema Place and the Dalton Publishing Company and his experiences as a sailor in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
Notes
The speaker ran Dalton's Bookshop in Garema Place and later in Rudd Street. He was also a leading yachtsman.