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John Harrison Packard
John Harrison Packard (16 March 1847 – 11 August 1929) was a surveyor in the colony of South Australia. He served under G. W. Goyder in the initial survey of Port Darwin. History Packard was born in Sussex to Rev. Daniel Packard (c. 1810 – 12 May 1862) and Sarah Packard, née Devereux, (1814 – 9 March 1886), who married in December 1835 and emigrated to South Australia in 1851. His father was to become the first incumbent of St Andrew's Anglican church, Walkerville, South Australia, Walkerville. He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, St Peter's College and began work at the South Australian government's Lands Department (South Australia), Lands Department as a trainee surveyor, under Surveyor-General George Goyder, Goyder. He worked as chainman with Goyder's Darwin survey of 1869, which, thanks to Goyder's careful planning and strenuous efforts by his army of workers, was completed in the space of one dry season. He was to return to the Territory several times, lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colony Of South Australia
In modern parlance, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the '' metropolitan state'' (or "mother country"). This administrative colonial separation makes colonies neither incorporated territories nor client states. Some colonies have been organized either as dependent territories that are not sufficiently self-governed, or as self-governed colonies controlled by colonial settlers. The term colony originates from the ancient Roman '' colonia'', a type of Roman settlement. Derived from ''colon-us'' (farmer, cultivator, planter, or settler), it carries with it the sense of 'farm' and 'landed estate'. Furthermore the term was used to refer to the older Greek ''apoikia'' (), which were overseas settlements by ancient Greek city-states. The city that founded such a settlement became known as its ''metropolis'' ("mother-city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
