Old Canberrans Book Club |
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On the shelves of the ACT Heritage Library is an anomalous title. Kylie Tennant’s Ride on Stranger, a novel published in 1943, is the story about a young woman growing to maturity in Sydney between the two World Wars.
The ACT Heritage Library collects books, journals, photographs, maps and manuscripts relating to the history and development of Canberra and the ACT and this book is neither about Canberra, written by a local author, nor published in the ACT,
Pasted on the inside, however, was a list of names and address for the foundation members of the “Old Canberran’s Book Club”.
Former students of the Australian Forestry School (AFS) formed a club to share books. This is the distribution list for 1944/45 and includes not only their current address but the years they attended the AFS.
Most of the men on this list, many of them very prominent in their profession, did not remain in Canberra, but they maintained a relationship with the place and their professional community through membership of a book sharing club known as the Old Canberrans Book Club. By cross-checking this list against a list of students of the AFS published in LT Carron’s A Brief History of the Australian Foresty School, 2000 we find that 37% of all students maintained membership of the Old Canberrans Book Club.
The item is now in the manuscripts collection of the ACT Heritage Library - HMSS 0261.
TRANSCRIPTION
OLD CANBERRAN’S BOOK CLUB
FOUNDATION MEMBERS
1 | Bailey, F.M. | 1926-1927 | Forestry Commission, Box 2667EE, Sydney |
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2 | Maclean, G.H. | 1926-1927 | Forestry Commission, Box 2667EE, Sydney |
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3 | Westbrook, W.R. | 1926-1927 | Forestry Commission, Box 2667EE, Sydney |
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6 | Wallace, W.R. | 1927-1928 | Forest Office, Dwellingup, W.A. |
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4 | Muir, W.D. | 1928-1929 | Forestry Commission, Sydney |
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7 | Cameron, M.A. | 1928-1929 | Box 36, Yarraman, Queensland | 25.2/12.3.46 |
5 | Cromer, D.A. | 1930-1931 | Forestry Commission, Sydney |
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8 | Doggrell, R.H. | 1930-1931 | Forest Office, Imbil, Queensland |
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9 | Lane, Col. A.D. | 1931 | Forestry Department, Hobart, Tasmania |
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12 | Anderson, C.W. | 1931-1932 | 15 Percy Street, Maryborough, Queensland |
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11 | Boyd, G. | 1932 | 10 Cleveden Rd., Hurstville, Sydney |
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10 | Cox, E.K. | 1932-1933 | Forestry Department, Hobart, Tasmania |
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13 | McAdam, Major J.B. | 1932-1933 | 1 Aus. C.R.E., New Guinea Forests |
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14 | Thomas, Major J. | 1932-1933 | 1 Aus. C.R.E., New Guinea Forests |
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16 | Shoobridge, D.W. | 1932-1933 | 10 Ipima Road, Braddon, A.C.T. |
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20 | McIvor, L. | 1933 | Forest Office, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W. |
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19 | Rutley, T. | 1933 | Forest Office, Casino |
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23 | Teague, P.D. | 1933-1934 | Forest Office, Wauchope, N.S.W. |
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24 | Richards, A.S. | 1934-1935 | Forest Office, Bateman’s Bay, N.S.W. |
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17 | Pryor, L.D. | 1934-1935 | Department of Interior, A.C.T. |
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21 | Clarke, B.B. | 1935-1936 | Forest Office, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W. |
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25 | Regan, E.L.I. | 1935-1936 | Forest Office, Kempsey, N.S.W. |
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27 | Boomsma, C.D. | 1937-1938 | Mt. Burr, via Kalangadoo, S.A. |
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26 | Barrett, P.H. | 1937-1938 | Forest Office, Pemberton, W.A. |
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28 | Pawsey, C.K. | 1937-1938 | Mt. Burr, via Kalangadoo, S.A. |
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30 | Healy, V.M. | 1938-1939 | Woods & Forests Dept., Box 1406G, Adelaide |
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32 | Whale, R. | 1938-1939 | Forest Office, Fraser Island, Queensland |
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33 | Hamilton, C.D. | 1939-1940 | Forest Office, Pemberton, W.A. |
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31 | Jacobs, L.T. | 1940-1941 | Woods & Forests Dept., Box 1406G, Adelaide |
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15 | Parkhouse, T.W. | 1940-1941 | 1 Aus. C.R.E., New Guinea Forests |
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34 | Beesley, J. | 1941-1942 | Forests Department, Perth, W.A. |
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41 | Hinkley, K. | 1941 & 1945 | A.F.S, A.C.T. |
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18 | Johnson, E.P. | 1941-1942 | Department of Interior, A.C.T. |
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22 | Dark, J.O. | 1942-1943 | Forest Office, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W. |
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35 | Feagan, W.J. | 1942-1943 | Forest Office, Mathoura, N.S.W. |
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37 | Green, J.H. | 1942-1943 | Forest Office, Cessnock, N.S.W. |
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39 | Bell, H. McK. | 1943-1944 | Forest Office, Wagga, N.S.W. |
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36 | Heather, W.A. | 1943-1944 | Forest Office, Mathoura, N.S.W. |
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40 | Hindmarsh, W.R. | 1943-1944 | Forest Office, Green Hills, N.S.W. |
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38 | McArthur, A.G. | 1943-1944 | Forest Office, Cessnock, N.S.W. |
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29 | Woods, R.V. | 1943-1944 | Mt. Burr Forest, via Kalangadoo, S.A. |
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42 | Dunn, D.B. | 1944-1945 | A.F.S., A.C.T. |
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43 | Edwards, R.J. | 1944-1945 | A.F.S., A.C.T. |
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44 | Lewis, N. | 1944-1945 | A.F.S., A.C.T. |
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45 | The Hon. Librarian Students’ Library | A.F.S., A.C.T. |
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