Charles Launcelot Garland (1854 – 7 January 1930) was a New Zealand-born Australian politician and mining entrepreneur. He was the founder of the town of
Leadville
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, N.S.W.
He was born at
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about I ...
to sea captain William Riley Garland and Nancy Turner. He was a miner from an early age, and migrated to
New South Wales
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in 1879. Around 1882 he married Mary Newland, with whom he had a son. Garland died in
Sydney in 1930,
and was buried at the
Gore Hill Cemetery.
Business career
From 1882 he was an assurance agent, and was also successful mining at
Leadville
The City of Leadville is a statutory city that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 2,602 at the 2010 census and an estimated ...
, on the
Palmer River
The Palmer River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia. The area surrounding the river was the site of a gold rush in the late 19th century which started in 1873.
Course and features
The headwaters of the Palmer River rise in ...
in
Far North Queensland
Far North Queensland (FNQ) is the northernmost part of the Australian state of Queensland. Its largest city is Cairns and it is dominated geographically by Cape York Peninsula, which stretches north to the Torres Strait, and west to the Gulf ...
,
and on the
Macquarie River
The Macquarie River - Wambuul is part of the Macquarie– Barwon catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is one of the main inland rivers in New South Wales, Australia.
The river rises in the central highlands of New South Wales near the ...
.
Garland is credited with being the first to introduce
gold dredging—a technique used extensively in his native New Zealand—to New South Wales, He launched the first gold dredge on the Macquarie in 1899.
By 1905, there were 42 dredges working in New South Wales, resulting in a significant revival of gold production.
Political career
In 1885 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...
as the member for
Carcoar. He retired in 1891.
See also
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Leadville, New South Wales
References
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1854 births
1930 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Free Trade Party politicians