Zeehan and Dundas Herald
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The Zeehan and Dundas Herald (also seen as Zeehan Dundas Herald) was a newspaper for the West Coast
Tasmania
community, based in Zeehan and Dundas
from 1890 to 1922.
It was published by William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, with the National Library of Australia
catalogue stating that the first issues was dated Tuesday, 14 October 1890
while Blainey in The Peaks of Lyell
has October 1891. It ceased operating with volume 33, number 193, on 31 May 1922.
It was operating in the early years (1890s) at the same time as the Queenstown
based Mount Lyell Standard which ceased in 1902.
It reported extensively on the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster
and the subsequent inquiry following the disaster.
In the 2000s - Family History enthusiasts have made copies of the newspapers birth, death and marriage entries for the full range of the newspapers existence
Subsequent west coast Newspapers did not appear until later in the twentieth century following the decline in the fortunes of Zeehan and Dundas and the exhaustion of the silver deposits in particular.
West Coast, Tasmania
The West Coast of Tasmania is the part of the state that is strongly associated with wilderness, mining and tourism, rough country and isolation...
Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
community, based in Zeehan and Dundas
Dundas, Tasmania
Dundas was a historical mining locality, mineral field and railway location on the western foothills of the West Coast Range in Western Tasmania. It is now part of the locality ofZeehan....
from 1890 to 1922.
It was published by William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, with the National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library of Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the...
catalogue stating that the first issues was dated Tuesday, 14 October 1890
while Blainey in The Peaks of Lyell
The peaks of lyell
The Peaks of Lyell is a book by Geoffrey Blainey, originally published in 1954. It contains the history of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, and through association, Queenstown and further the West Coast Tasmania...
has October 1891. It ceased operating with volume 33, number 193, on 31 May 1922.
It was operating in the early years (1890s) at the same time as the Queenstown
Queenstown, Tasmania
Queenstown is a town in the West Coast region of the island of Tasmania. It is located in a valley on western slopes of Mount Owen on the West Coast Range.It had a population of 5,119 people . At the 2006 census, Queenstown had a population of 2,117....
based Mount Lyell Standard which ceased in 1902.
It reported extensively on the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster
1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster
The 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations on the West Coast of Tasmania...
and the subsequent inquiry following the disaster.
In the 2000s - Family History enthusiasts have made copies of the newspapers birth, death and marriage entries for the full range of the newspapers existence
Subsequent west coast Newspapers did not appear until later in the twentieth century following the decline in the fortunes of Zeehan and Dundas and the exhaustion of the silver deposits in particular.
Further reading
- Miller, E. Morris (1953) A Historical Summary of Tasmanian Newspapers, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Papers and Proceedings, vol.2, no.2, March 1953