- Title
- James Dawson’s intervention in the naming of the Maroondah Aqueduct in 1881-83
- Creator
- Clark, Ian
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/167868
- Identifier
- vital:13725
- Identifier
- ISBN:1441-3760
- Identifier
- https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/La-Trobe-Journal-97-Ian-D-Clark.pdf
- Abstract
- This paper is concerned with the renaming of the Watts River Scheme at its official opening in 1891 to Maroondah. It reveals that the driving force behind the name change was, in all likelihood, James Dawson, whose interest in Aboriginal place names and his association with the Upper Yarra since 1840 saw him undertake a field visit to the Coranderrk Aboriginal settlement to meet with Aboriginal elders and learn their traditional names for the locality. Before venturing in to the field, however, he discussed his plans with the relevant official in charge in the Water Department and received a promise from the official that he would do all he could to meet Dawson’s views on the desirability for a name change. Dawson’s wishes were realised at the official opening, however the assigned convict George Watts’s name still remains associated with the stream in which he drowned.
- Relation
- La Trobe Journal Vol. 97, no. March (2016), p. 91-104
- Rights
- Copyright State Library Victoria
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- Maroondah Aqueduct; Coranderrk Aboriginal settlement; 2103 Historical Studies
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