Early Christchurch
Information about a wide range of topics about the early European settlement of Christchurch and Canterbury.
Foundations
- Early Christchurch - a brief history
- The pioneering Deans family
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the New Zealand Company
- Captain Joseph Thomas and the streets of Christchurch
- The first four ships
- John Robert Godley and the founding of Canterbury
- Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association - The Show goes on...
- Different thinkers in Christchurch and Canterbury: Elsie Locke, Ettie Rout, Thomas Edmonds and Alexander Bickerton.
- Early rugby in Christchurch
Famous early women
- Lady Barker and station life in Canterbury
- Kate Sheppard and votes for women!
- Nurse Maude and nursing in Christchurch
Famous early men
- James Edward Fitzgerald and the newspapers
- William Sefton Moorhouse and the Tunnel
- Dr Barker Photographs Christchurch
- Thomas Edmonds
