ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collection
HMSS 0287 John Gray Research and Consultancy Papers
Scope and Content Notes
Call Number | HMSS 0287 |
Collection | John Gray Research and Consultancy Papers |
Date Range | 1965-2007 |
Quantity | 1.33m (2 manuscript boxes, 1 plan tube) |
Access Conditions | open |
Copying conditions | available |
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John Edmund Gray began work as a cadet forester with the NSW Forestry Commission in 1948. He was Parks Manager, Parks and Gardens Branch, Department of the Interior, Canberra from 1960 to 1968. After two years postgraduate study in California, he returned to Canberra as Senior Lecturer in Natural Resources at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra). From 1979 to 1988 he was first Principal Landscape Architect and then Director, Landscape Architecture, for the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC). From 1988 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Canberra and a consultant in landscape architecture and urban forestry.
John has received many awards, including Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Parks and Gardens (1980), and their Award of Merit in 1989 for his book The Glebe Park Story. The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects gave him a Merit Award in 1990 for The Glebe Park Story, having previously recognised his work with the NCDC on the Lake Burley Griffin and Adjacent Parklands project (1986) and on the book Canberra – From Limestone Plains to Garden City (1988).
In addition to his research and teaching, John has published widely, served on Commonwealth Tertiary Education Accreditation committees and committees of inquiry, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Landscape Australia. He is also a member of the Rotary Club of Canberra-Woden.
BOX LIST
BOX | DESCRIPTION | QTY | DATE RANGE |
| COMMONWEALTH PARK |
| 1965 – 2000 |
1 | John Gray. A Park for a Nation (book) | 1 file | 1995 – 1996 |
1 | Mulwala House 50th AnniversaryResearch papers, correspondence, newscuttings, draft history of Mulwala House | 1 file | 1997 |
1 | Commonwealth Park Walks | 1 file | 1997 – 2000 |
2 | Plans of Commonwealth Park 1 A3 drawing: | 1 poster roll | 1965 – 1968 |
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| GLEBE PARK |
| 1989 – 2007 |
1 | John Gray. The Glebe Park Story. 1989. Research papers | 1 file |
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1 | Glebe Park Draft Management Plan | 1 file | 1993 – 2007 |
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| AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL COURTYARD LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT PLAN |
| 1978 – 1993 |
1 | - Research papers on the War Memorial and on landscape elements, particularly the origin of the Roman cypress trees |
| 1978 – 1993 |
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| LAKE GINNINDERRA DRAFT MANAGEMENT PLAN |
| 1982 – 1991 |
1 | Background papers: | 2 files | 1982 – 1991 |
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| VILLAGE CREEK OPEN SPACE, KAMBAH |
| 1970 – 1993 |
3 | Background papers: | 1 file | 1970 – 1980 |
3 | Draft management plan: | 1 file | 1991 – 1992 |
3 | Consultancy papers, including John Gray’s original submission together with his personal resume, progress reports. 21 December 1990 – 30 June 1992 Village Creek Urban Forest activities week, 2-7 August 1993 – publicity, logo competition, awards presentation | 1 file | 1990 – 1993 |
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