Queens Park is a

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Western Australia, located within the

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 approximatel ...

. Its postcode is 6107. There are 6,853 persons living in Queens Park. The top five ancestries represented in the suburb were English, Chinese, Australian, Indian, Nepali and Filipino. The majority of persons living in Queens Park were between the ages of 18 and 49 (school leavers, university students, young workforce and parents and home builders).

Pre colonial history

Queens Park, prior to colonial interactions, was originally cared for by the

Whadjuk Whadjuk, alternatively Witjari, are Noongar (Aboriginal Australian) people of the Western Australian region of the Perth bioregion of the Swan Coastal Plain. Name The ethnonym appears to derive from ''whad'', the Whadjuk word for "no". Countr ...

Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the so ...

people, the

traditional owners Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights ...

for the areas along the

Canning River 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 ...

. Prior to the colonial settlement of the area, the Canning River and its associated wetlands provided an important source of food and shelter to the Beeliar and Beeloo Noongar people. The Beeloo considered north of the Canning River to the hills as part of their ground while the Beeliar mainly traversed the southern section of the river to the sea. At the time of colonial settlement,

Midgegooroo Midgegooroo (died 22 May 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian elder of the Nyungar nation, who played a key role in Aboriginal resistance to white settlement in the area of Perth, Western Australia. Everything documented about Midgegooroo (various ...

and Munday were leaders of these people. The Cannington-Wilson area was called "Beeloo" for many years by local residents.

Post-colonial history

The suburb derives its name from the former Queens Park Road Board that was incorporated into the Canning and Belmont Road Boards. Queens Park was originally known as Woodlupine. The name change was brought about following a murder in 1911. Local residents and authorities feared the incident could jeopardise the development of the area. It was agreed that the name would be changed to Queens Park to honour

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, wife of

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Sister Kate's children's home

The largest single land-holder in Queens Park was Sister Kate's children's home, which was founded by

Katherine Mary Clutterbuck Katherine Mary Clutterbuck (October 1860 in Wiltshire, England – 31 July 1946 in Nedlands, Western Australia), usually known as Sister Kate, was an Anglican nun who pioneered a cottage home system for looking after orphan babies and children ...

in 1934 and expanded in 1936. At the time,

A. O. Neville Auber Octavius Neville (20 November 1875 – 18 April 1954) was a British-Australian public servant, notably Chief Protector of Aborigines, in Western Australia. Early life Born in Northumberland, England, Neville emigrated to Victoria, ...

, the government

Chief Protector of Aborigines The role of Protector of Aborigines was first established in South Australia in 1836. The role became established in other parts of Australia pursuant to a recommendation contained in the ''Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Abori ...

was the architect of an official scheme that oversaw the care, custody and education of Aboriginal and

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children under 16 years in the state. The scheme's purpose was to integrate young and part-Aboriginal children into white society by separating them from their families. These children later became known as the

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Whadjuk Noongar heritage sites

* DAA have site 3633 located on Sevenoaks Street in Queens Park.

Colonial heritage

* The Chapel of the Guardian Angel * Sister Kate's Children's Home * St Josephs Roman Catholic School & Convent * St Norbert College & St Joseph's Priory * Cannington Fire Station * Coronation Hotel

Modern developments

Queens Park now incorporates the former suburb of Maniana, once of State Housing development post-WW2, which is being pulled down and redeveloped into "Quatro".. New developments such as "Skytown" have seen property prices boom as developers buy old houses for unit development, especially around the older parts of Queens Park on

Welshpool Road Welshpool Road is a major arterial road running through the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. Although the road is now split in two, having had its western and eastern sections disconnected due to the extension of Roe Highway, it r ...

Transport

Queens Park is home to Queens Park railway station. It is located around from Perth CBD and serves the

Armadale and Thornlie lines The Armadale line is a suburban rail service in Western Australia that runs from Perth to Armadale on the South Western Railway. This service is planned to extend to the suburb of Byford over an new railway line constructed as part of the B ...

. The station is due to be rebuilt in 2023 as part of

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. The station is served by 1 bus route, the 201 to

Cannington railway station Cannington Station is a railway station serving the suburb of Cannington south of Perth, Western Australia. It is located from Perth Station on the Armadale/Thornlie Line, part of the Transperth network. History The original Cannington stati ...

from

Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

Environment

Queens Park has several open spaces and reserves, including an oval and eleven parks, and one regional park. Flora includes: * Flooded gum * Grass tree *

Bulrush Bulrush is a vernacular name for several large wetland grass-like plants *Sedge family (Cyperaceae): **''Cyperus'' **''Scirpus'' **'' Blysmus'' **''Bolboschoenus'' **''Scirpoides'' **''Isolepis'' **''Schoenoplectus'' **''Trichophorum'' *Typhacea ...

es * Swamp paperbark

Community groups

The Friends of Queens Park Bushland is a community group of volunteers whose aim is to help the community connect with nature through protecting, regenerating and revegetating the bushland in Queens Park, East Cannington and Welshpool. The

Lions Club The International Association of Lions Clubs, more commonly known as Lions Clubs International, is an international non-political service organization established originally in 1916 in Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , ...

has a branch in Queens Park.

Sports clubs

The Queens Park Football Club was established in the early 1960s. Currently it has

Auskick Auskick is a program designed to teach the basic skills of Australian rules football (AFL) to boys and girls aged between 5 and 12. Auskick is a non-contact variant of the sport. It began in Australia and is now a nationwide non-selective pro ...

teams. The Queens Park Soccer Club was founded in 1909. Queens Park is home to several men's, women's and junior teams.

Wildlife

There are 759 wildlife species currently identified. Easily identified and frequently spotted species are: Birds *

Cormorant Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed, but in 2021 the IOC adopted a consensus taxonomy of seven ge ...

Australian pelican The Australian pelican (''Pelecanus conspicillatus'') is a large waterbird in the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant in New Zealand. It ...

* Little egret *

Australian white ibis The Australian white ibis (''Threskiornis molucca'') is a wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is widespread across much of Australia. It has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long downcurved bill and blac ...

Mammals *

Lesser long-eared bat ''Nyctophilus geoffroyi'' is a vespertilionid bat, a flying nocturnal mammal found in Australia, The species is relatively common. They have been referred to as the lesser long-eared bat. Taxonomy It is the type species of genus ''Nyctophilus' ...

Fox Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush''). Twelve sp ...

House mouse The house mouse (''Mus musculus'') is a small mammal of the order Rodentia, characteristically having a pointed snout, large rounded ears, and a long and almost hairless tail. It is one of the most abundant species of the genus '' Mus''. Althoug ...

Reptiles *

Southwestern snake-necked turtle The oblong turtle (''Chelodina oblonga''), also known commonly as the narrow-breasted snake-necked turtle and the southwestern snake-necked turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to the southwestern part o ...

* Southern blind snake *

Dugite The dugite (; ''Pseudonaja affinis'') is a species of venomous, potentially lethal, snake native to Western Australia, a member of the Family (biology), family Elapidae. The word dugite is an anglicisation of names for the snake in some dialects ...

Amphibians *

Limnodynastes dorsalis ''The western banjo frog (Limnodynastes dorsalis)'' is a species of frog from the family Limnodynastidae. The informal names for this species are pobblebonk, sand frog and bullfrog. It is one of the endemic amphibians of Western Australia. A lar ...

Moaning frog The moaning frog (''Heleioporus eyrei'') is a burrowing frog native to south-western Western Australia. Description The moaning frog is round, with a large head and large, bulbous eyes. The dorsal surface is brown, with marbling of white, grey o ...

* Motorbike frog

Schools

* Queens Park Primary School * St Norbert College * St. Josephs School

References

{{City of Canning suburbs Suburbs in the City of Canning Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia