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Canterbury’s First Anglican Bishop Died – 28th December 1893
“He was the right man in the right place.” – Charles Orbin Torlesse, Canterbury Association Surveyor. Bishop Henry James Chitty Harper would have been very delighted to have seen the face of his old friend, Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, upon his arrival in Lyttelton in 1856. Selwyn didn’t wait for the Harper family to come …
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Women Win The Right To Vote – 19th September 1893
On 19th September 1893, Christchurch-based suffragette Kate Sheppard won New Zealand women the right to vote. Catherine Wilson Malcolm was born in Liverpool, England in 1848 to Scottish parents – Andrew Wilson Malcolm and Jemima Souter. One of four children, young Catherine had no problem in knowing her own mind – changing the ‘C’ in …
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Cantab Women Hit The Road In World First – 1892
In August 1892, witnessed by their male counterparts of the ‘Bicycle Touring Club’, the first all woman’s bicycle club was established in Christchurch. This was the first of its kind in the world and was known as the ‘Atalanta Cycling Club’. Atalanta was a female athlete in Greek Mythology. The main driving force behind this …
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Richmond Joined The Greater Christchurch – 30th May 1890
On 1st November 1890, Richmond joined the Greater Christchurch and came under the care of the C.C.C. It was the first borough to do so outside the main Town Belts (our main four Avenues). Hungarian settler, Morice Bing bought 200 acres just north of the Avon River (near Stanmore Road) in the early 1860s. He …
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