#23529 - John Whelen Papers

Resource ID

Location

23529

Ingram compactus Bay 4

Title/subtitle

John Whelen Papers

Author/Creator

Whelen, John

Format

Collection

Identifier

John Arnold Whelen

Physical description

Paper

Summary

John Arnold Whelen (1914-1996) was a foundation member of the CDHS, a past president and secretary of the CDHS as well as editor of the Newsletter and co-author of Around Australia's Capital with George Jefferis. The collection has 14 items, including ten in folders, of Whelen's notes and research on Canberra district history.

Availability

Not for loan

Notes

1. Field History. 2. Shumack - preparation of his book 'Tales and Legends of Canberra Pioneers'. 3. Gudgenby paper 4. Mrs Bopping of Ballababa, breast plate of Billy Murruah, Chief of Boomburrah. Folder 1 - Braidwood and district people and places. Folder 2. Cemeteries St John's, Lanyon, Glebe, Cuppacumbalong. Local families included in Canberra place names and streets. Shopping centres in Canberra 1930s. Interview notes Ned Ryan, Charles Curley, Ian Brassey, Alfred Southwell and wife, Winter, Read, Moore, Doug Vest. Canberra water supply, Cotter Pumping Station. Folder 3 - Queanbeyan, Burra, Captains Flat, Michelago, Rossi. Folder 4 - general Australian history. Folder 5 - Binalong, Boorowa, Bungendore, Bywong, Collector, Currawang, Goulburn, Gundaroo, Gunning. Folder 6 - Families Badgery, Stephen, Mort, Laidley, Kennedy, Hume, Mitchell and Huon, McDonald, John McKinley, Folder 7 - Development of NSW roads. Folder 8 - weather, rainfall for Blayney, Braidwood, Canberra, Cooma, Crookwell, Goulburn. Folder 9 - newspapers Shoalhaven News, Braidwood Dispatch. Folder 10 - booklets, Queanbeyan Public School Centenary 1864-1964, Queanbeyan District Hospital Centenary 1846-1946.