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Clara Winifred Howie
Clara Winifred Howie MBE (27 June 1881 – 13 August 1960) was an Australian nurse and administrator. Also known as Winifred Howie, in 1937 she was the acting President of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association before leading the South Australian branch until 1941. Life Howie was born in 1881 in Adelaide's seaside suburb of Glenelg. Her eldest brother was the artist L. H. Howie. Her parents were Clara Jane (born Hotham) and her husband George Cullen Howie who had emigrated from Scotland. Her father died in 1883 and his mother took the children to stay with her father, the Rev. John Hotham, in Port Elliot, where she ran a small private schoolDavid Dolan'Howie, Laurence Hotham (1876–1963)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 7 February 2015 in the winter and in the summer they took in boarders. After training she began working for the District Trained Nursing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenelg, South Australia
Glenelg is a beach-side suburb of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Located on the shore of Holdfast Bay in Gulf St Vincent, it has become a tourist destination due to its beach and many attractions, home to several hotels and dozens of restaurants. Established in 1836, it is the oldest European settlement on mainland South Australia. It was named after Lord Glenelg, a member of British Cabinet and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. Through Lord Glenelg the name derives from Glenelg, Highland, Scotland. History Prior to the 1836 British colonisation of South Australia, Glenelg and the rest of the Adelaide Plains was home to the Kaurna group of Aboriginal Australians. They knew the area as "Pattawilya" and the local river as "Pattawilyangga", now named the Patawalonga River. Evidence has shown that at least two smallpox epidemics had killed the majority of the Kaurna population prior to 1836. The disease appeared to have come down the Murray River from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forestville, South Australia
Forestville is an inner southwestern suburb of Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ... in the City of Unley. It is traversed by Brown Hill Creek and the Glenelg tram line. Former National Basketball League (Australia), NBL franchise and current Premier League (Australia), Premier League club, the Forestville Eagles, are named after the suburb. References Suburbs of Adelaide {{adelaide-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District Trained Nursing Society
The Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) is a not-for-profit community health and care provider with headquarters in Keswick, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It was established in 1894 in South Australia as the District Trained Nursing Society (DTNS). It was renamed the District and Bush Nursing Society of South Australia in 1937; in 1965 it became the Royal District and Bush Nursing Society of South Australia and in 1973 the Royal District Nursing Society of South Australia. In 1993 its name changed to Royal District Nursing Service of SA. In 2011 the organisation merged with Silver Chain, and is now known as RDNS in South Australia and Silver Chain throughout the rest of Australia. History The Royal District Nursing Society of South Australia, initially the District Trained Nursing Society (D.T.N.S.), was inaugurated on 12 July 1894 following 12 months work by a trained nurse in the Adelaide suburb of Bowden. This experiment, which was financed by the philanthropic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V and comprises five classes across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male or dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order. Recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire were originally made on the nomination of the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions of the Empire (later Commonwealth) and the Viceroy of India. Nominations continue today from Commonwealth countries that participate in recommending British honours. Most Commonwealth countries ceased recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire when they cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australasian Trained Nurses' Association
The Australasian Trained Nurses' Association was an association formed in 1899 to register nurses who had been trained in Australia. History Susan McGahey was a co-founder of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association (ATNA) in December 1899 which was briefly named the Australian Trained Nurses' Association. She had posted a newspaper advert asking for people interested in forming an association to register trained nurses to meet with her. Frederick Norton Manning was one of several doctors involved with the early organisation and he became the association's first President According to Russell the original idea for the ATNA began with a proposal from two matrons, Matron Susan McGahey of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and Matron Martha Farquharson who was from 1890 to 1895 Matron at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital, and from 1895 to 1900 Matron at the Melbourne Hospital. At the meeting on 26 May 1899 to form the ATNA a provisional committee comprising seven matrons Matron S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Elliot, South Australia
Port Elliot is a town in South Australia toward the eastern end of the south coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula. It is situated on the sheltered Horseshoe Bay, a small bay off the much larger Encounter Bay. Pullen Island lies outside the mouth of the bay. At the , Port Elliot had a population of 1,754, although this section of the coast is now built up almost all the way from Goolwa to Victor Harbor. Lady Bay is a small bay at the south-western end of Horseshoe Bay, past the jetty. History Horseshoe Bay was proclaimed a port in 1851, and the settlement above the bay was named Port Elliot in 1852 after Charles Elliot, the Governor of Bermuda who was a friend of the then Governor of South Australia, Sir Henry Young. The location had been previously known as Freeman's Knob; the aboriginal name for the area may have been "Witengangool". Freemans Nob was used as a lookout post for shore-base bay whaling stations in Encounter Bay in the late 1830s. The area was also used as a plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hergott Springs
Marree (formerly Hergott Springs) is a small town located in the north of South Australia. It lies North of Adelaide at the junction of the Oodnadatta Track and the Birdsville Track, above sea level. Marree is an important service centre for the large sheep and cattle stations in northeast South Australia as well as a stopover destination for tourists traveling along the Birdsville or Oodnadatta Tracks. The area is the home of the Dieri Aboriginal people. At the 2011 census, the Marree census district which includes the entire northeastern corner of South Australia had a population of 634, with 70% of the population being male. The town of Marree has a population of approximately 150 persons. The major areas of employment are mining, agriculture and accommodation services. The town was home to Australia's first mosque, which was made of mud brick and built by the Afghan cameleers employed at Marree's inception. At the turn of the 20th century the town was divided in two, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goolwa, South Australia
Goolwa is a historic river port on the Murray River near the Murray Mouth in South Australia, and joined by a bridge to Hindmarsh Island. The name "Goolwa" means "elbow" in Ngarrindjeri, the local Aboriginal language, and the area was known as "The Elbow" to the early settlers. Goolwa is approximately 85 km south of Adelaide, and is the seat of the Alexandrina Council. It is in the state electoral district of Hammond and the federal Division of Mayo. At the 2011 census, the state suburb of Goolwa (excluding Goolwa Beach, Goolwa North and Goolwa South) had a population of 2,201. At June 2018, the estimated urban population for Goolwa together with nearby Victor Harbor was 26,532, Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. having increased at an average annual rate of 1.07% year-on-year over the preceding five years. The portion of this combined urban area residing in Goolwa is 11,578. History Before 1837 the area was briefly considered for the site of the colony's cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 Births
Events January–March * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The Chilean army defeats Peruvian forces. * January 15 – War of the Pacific – Battle of Miraflores: The Chileans take Lima, capital of Peru, after defeating its second line of defense in Miraflores. * January 24 – William Edward Forster, chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill, which temporarily suspends habeas corpus so that those people suspected of committing an offence can be detained without trial; it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2. * January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. * February 13 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper ''La Citoyenne'' is published by Hubertine Auclert. * February 16 – The Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Deaths
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Adelaide
This is a list of notable people from Adelaide. Arts and music Prominent intellectuals, writers, artists, bands, and musicians to hail from Adelaide include: Actors *Dame Judith Anderson - '' Rebecca'', ''And Then There Were None''; Tony and Emmy Award winner *Elspeth Ballantyne - ''Prisoner'' *Holly Brisley - '' Home and Away'' *Sam Clark - ''Neighbours'' *Kate Fischer - ''Sirens'' *Sir Robert Helpmann - '' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' *Nicholas Hope - ''Bad Boy Bubby'' *Dichen Lachman - ''Neighbours'', ''Dollhouse'' *Anthony LaPaglia - ''Without a Trace'' *Jonathan LaPaglia - '' Seven Days'', ''The District'' *Glenn McMillan - '' Wonderland'' *Ben Oxenbould - '' Hey Dad..!'' *Teresa Palmer - ''December Boys'', ''I Am Number Four'' *Lois Ramsey - ''Road to Nhill'', ''Home and Away'' *Xavier Samuel - '' The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'' *Hugh Sheridan - ''Packed to the Rafters'' *Sarah Snook - '' Succession''; Golden Globe winner * *Sonia Todd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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