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Riverton, Western Australia
Riverton is a southeastern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. Its local government area is the City of Canning. Location Riverton is situated about from Perth. The Canning River makes some of its north eastern boundary. It is part of the City of Canning, situated south east of the Swan River. The main roads that pass through Riverton are Leach Highway, High Road and Vahland Avenue. History The suburb began by a subdivision in 1917. It was referred to locally as Riverton Bridge in 1937 due to the old timber Riverton Bridge that crosses the Canning River to the suburb, and to distinguish it from the South Australian suburb of Riverton. Amenities Riverton has its local library with recreational facilities known as the Riverton Leisureplex. Situated in adjoining Parkwood is Stockland Riverton shopping centre, often referred to by its former name of Riverton Forum, which provides locals with everyday essentials. There are two primary schools: the independen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Canning
The City of Canning is a local government area in the southeastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, about southeast of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of and had a population of approximately 90,000 as at the 2016 Census. History A short-lived attempt to create a town trust for the Canning District lasted from 1843-1847, before it was dissolved. The area continued to develop under the control of a Central Board of Works until, in 1871, the Canning Road District was established under the ''District Roads Act 1871''. The City of Canning originated as the Municipality of Queen's Park, which was established on 1 July 1907 when the original Canning Road District was divided into two and split into the Queen's Park municipality and the Gosnells Road District (later to become the City of Gosnells). It was renamed the Queen's Park Road District on 5 November 1913. It was renamed again to become the second Canning Road District o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canning River (Western Australia)
The Canning River (Djarlgarra in Nyungar) is a major tributary of the Swan River in the South West Land Division of Western Australia. It is home to much wildlife including dolphins, pelicans, swans and many other bird species. Source and route With headwaters on the Darling Scarp, the Canning meanders through suburbs of Perth, Western Australia on the Swan Coastal Plain, including Cannington, Thornlie, Riverton, Shelley, Rossmoyne and Mount Pleasant, before joining the Swan at Melville Water just downstream of the Canning Bridge. Bridges * Canning Bridge * Mount Henry Bridge * Shelley Bridge * Riverton Bridge * Kent Street Weir Bridge * Greenfield Street Bridge * Canning River Downstream Bridge * Canning River Upstream Bridge * Djarlgarra Bridge Easthbound * Djarlgarra Bridge Westbound * unnamed railway bridge * Royal Street Bridge * unnamed pedestrian bridge * Burslem Bridge * unnamed railway bridge * Jenna Biddi Footbridge * unnamed railway bridge * unnamed pedestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Clune
Patrick Joseph Clune CSsR (6 January 1864 in Ruan, County Clare, Ireland – 24 May 1935 in Perth, Western Australia), an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth and first Archbishop of Perth. Clune served continuously in these roles from 1910 to 1935. Early life and priestly ministry Clune was educated in Ruan and at St Flannan's College in Ennis. In 1879 he entered the Catholic Missionary All Hallows College in Dublin to study for the priesthood, sponsored for the Diocese of Goldburn, Australia. He was ordained in 1886, aged 22. His first appointment was to St Patrick's College, Goulburn in New South Wales. He professed vows as a member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists) on 13 September 1894, and spent four years in missions in England and Ireland until 1898, before spending a short time as superior of the Redemptorist monastery in Wellington, New Zealand. In 1899 he was assigned to Western Australia. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany and various other facilities elsewhere. UWA was established in 1911 by an act of the Parliament of Western Australia and began teaching students two years later. It is the sixth-oldest university in Australia and was Western Australia's only university until the establishment of Murdoch University in 1973. Because of its age and reputation, UWA is classed one of the "sandstone universities", an informal designation given to the oldest university in each state. The university also belongs to several more formal groupings, including the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight and the Matariki Network of Universities. In recent years, UWA has generally been ranked either in the bottom half or just outside the University rankings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Of Christian Brothers
The Congregation of Christian Brothers ( la, Congregatio Fratrum Christianorum; abbreviated CFC) is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice. Their first school was opened in Waterford, Ireland, in 1802. At the time of its foundation, though much relieved from the harshest of the Penal Laws by the Parliament's Relief Acts, UK Catholics faced much discrimination throughout the newly created United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland pending full Catholic emancipation in 1829. This congregation is sometimes referred to as simply "the Christian Brothers", leading to confusion with the De La Salle Brothers—also known as the Christian Brothers (sometimes by Lasallian organisations themselves). As such, Rice's congregation is sometimes called the Irish Christian Brothers or the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers. History Formation of The Christian brothers At the turn of the nineteenth century, Waterford merchant Edmund Rice consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canning River Regional Park
The Canning River Regional Park is the largest of eight regional parks within the Perth metropolitan area. The park covers approximately on both sides of the Canning River between the bridges carrying Nicholson Road and Leach Highway over the Canning River. Canning River is a major tributary of the Swan River in south western Western Australia. History Aboriginal history At the time of European settlement, the Swan and Canning basins supported a population of Aboriginal people, the Whadjuk. At least six family groups are thought to have claimed territorial rights to the land which is now the metropolitan area. European history The regional park encompasses an area which was once a significant river system and transport route during the colonisation of Perth. At that time, the area was used primarily to transport logs from further south to the Swan River and then Perth and Fremantle. Over the years, land use in the area has included farms, orchids, brickworks, market garden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockland
Stockland Corporation Limited is a diversified Australian property development company. It has business in shopping centres, housing estates, industrial estates and retirement villages. History Stockland was founded in 1952 by Albert Scheinberg and Ervin Graf. In 1957 Stockland listed on the Australian Stock Exchange by acquiring a controlling interest in Simon Hickey Industries Ltd, the smallest company then listed. In the same year, Stockland's activities became more diversified, moving into commercial development, initially with retail projects in suburbs of Sydney. In 1965 Stockland opened its first big commercial development - the redeveloped Imperial Arcade, Sydney in Sydney's CBD, which offered the first underground link to David Jones, four retail levels and six levels of office space. Its current activities include: * management of shopping centres, 41 centres valued at $5 billion across Australia. * development of 65 residential communities with end-market value ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverton, South Australia
Riverton is a small town in the Mid North of South Australia, in the Gilbert Valley. It is situated on the Gilbert River, from which the town derives its name. Both the Gilbert Valley and Gilbert River were named after South Australian pioneer, Thomas Gilbert. Riverton was first settled in 1856, as a settlement along the bullock track from the mining town of Burra to the capital city Adelaide. It grew from a plan designed by a James Masters who had established the nearby town of Saddleworth. The streets of Riverton received their names chiefly from James Masters and his friends. They commemorate persons notable in the history of the district or the State. At the , Riverton had a population of 810. Including the rural areas surrounding the town, the population was 1213. First storekeeper The first storekeeper in the town, John Jubb Horner, arrived in South Australia in 1853 and soon made his way with his family to Riverton. His store, built in the early 1850s, was situated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverton Bridge
Riverton Bridge is a two-lane road traffic bridge spanning the Canning River at Riverton, in Perth, Western Australia. It was originally built in 1911 and known as the Watts Road Bridge, being renamed to Riverton Bridge in 1916. By the 1930s the bridge had fallen into disrepair. In 1954 it was replaced with the current structure, which is slightly upstream of the original. Part of the original bridge was kept as a swimming jetty, but this was demolished in 1980 for safety reasons. Until the 1970s the bridge formed part of the major east–west road system south of the Canning River and was part of what was then High Road between Fremantle and Cannington. In 1978, High Road was upgraded and realigned to become Leach Highway, and as part of that project the concrete four-lane Shelley Bridge was built appropriately downstream. Since then, Riverton Bridge has been used for mainly local traffic. In 1937 the suburb of Riverton was informally called Riverton Bridge to avoid co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Road, Perth
High Road is a major road running through Lynwood, Parkwood, Ferndale, Riverton, and Willetton in the south-east of Perth, Western Australia. It connects the major roads Leach Highway, and Albany Highway via Nicholson Road, originally built to provide the Gosnells area with direct access to the port city of Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for .... It is allocated State Route 27. See also References Roads in Perth, Western Australia {{WesternAustralia-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leach Highway
Leach Highway is a east-west arterial highway in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, primarily linking Kewdale and Perth Airport with the city of Fremantle. It is allocated State Route 7 and is a dual carriageway for its entire length. Leach Highway varies in width between four and six lanes, with speed limits of . Route description Leach Highway is one of the state's most important heavy vehicle routes. It links the major industrial areas of Kewdale and Welshpool with Western Australia's major container port at Fremantle. Although the Leach Highway's western terminus is at Carrington Street in Palmyra, High Street continues for a further into Fremantle, and connects it to the Stirling Highway. History Leach Highway is named for Leach, former Commissioner of Main Roads Western Australia. Construction began in 1966, with the first section opened between its present western terminus at Carrington Street, Melville (now Palmyra), and High Road in Canning (n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
