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Canterbury’s Working Horse Acknowledgement
Just like Lake Tekapo’s acknowledgement to the working sheep dog – who has been at the Mackenzie Country farmer’s side for well over a 150 years – Christchurch has chosen to honour the horse as the animal that helped tame the Canterbury Plains and who worked tirelessly along side our pioneers. “One of God’s Greatest …
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Millbrook Reserve
In 1992 in the Millbrook Reserve on Carlton Mill Road, the 350th anniversary of the Dutch explorer and first European in New Zealand waters, Abel Janszoon Tasman’s arrival at the west coast of New Zealand was acknowledged.He named his discovery ‘Staten Landt’, believing that the land was attached to South America! The plaque is a …
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Pioneer Names In Land Ledger
There would have been no hope for this old ledger if it hadn’t been behind glass at the Canterbury Museum. A ledger of land purchased up to the 30th April 1868 – section numbers, purchaser’s surnames, where and what acreage. Some names just jumped out of the page at me, I was so buzzing that …
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Christchurch’s Protected Historic Trees
While pigging out on KFC one Friday evening with Chris, parked up on Picton Street in Riccarton, I noticed something pinned on these particularly large Cabbage Trees. This photo doesn’t do justice to the size. I had commented to Chris on other occasions about the size, remarking that these Cabbage Trees must have been around …
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