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PO Box 531, Essendon 3040
This page composed on
9
November 2004
Updated 2 April 2008
Following a
successful
inaugural West Bourke Local and Family History Fair in October 2004, a
meeting was held
on 6 November 2004 of regional historical societies which
had participated in the 2004 Fair. It was proposed that the West
Bourke Heritage Association be formed to operate the Fair on a regular
basis in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Below is the Statement
of Purposes for the West Bourke
Heritage Association.
The
meeting
held on 5 March 2005 approved the Draft Rules of Incorporation and the
Statement of purposes. The Statement of Purposes is
reproduced below.
The
following
persons make up the committee for 2007:
Lenore Frost
(Essendon Historical
Society Inc): President
Christine Laskowski (Keilor Cemetery Research Project): Vice President
Denise
Donnan (Essendon Historical
Society Inc): Secretary
Lorraine
Siska (Hotham
History Project Inc)
Minutes Secretary
Barry Thomson (Keilor
Historical Society Inc): Treasurer
Anne
Best
(Sunshine Historical Society Inc)
Francesca
Folk (Brunswick Community
History
Group Inc)
We use our "My
Connected
Community" (mc2) to notify events in our region. See at the bottom of
the page for a link to mc2, a Victorian government project operated by
Vicnet.
Statement of
Purposes
1.
To
host a regular local and family history fair in the region;
2.
To
encourage and assist member organisations to carry out their individual
aims
and purposes;
3.
To
provide a forum for the interchange of information among member bodies
of the
Association by way of meetings, lectures, discussions, courses,
workshops,
excursions and exhibitions;
4.
To
support members to undertake historical research into places, sites and
objects
of historical importance and, where the results of such research so
warrant, to
assist the preservation and conservation of such places, sites and
objects;
5.
To
participate in or support activities aimed at the preservation or
conservation
of places, sites, and objects considered by the Association to be of
historical
importance;
6.
To
print, publish and circulate, including by electronic means,
periodicals,
books, newsletters and other publications to support the purposes of
the
Association;
7.
To
further the interests of members by advertising in the press, by
circulars, by
publication of books, leaflets, periodicals, websites, pamphlets or
literature
of a similar nature relating wholly to the purposes and benefits of the
Association and by granting prizes, rewards and donations;
8.
To invest the monies of the
Association
not immediately required on such investments as may from time to time
be
determined by the committee of the Association.
What
is West
Bourke?
West
Bourke was an
Electoral District of Victoria from 1856 to
1904. It was
represented by many well-known politicians
such as Alfred Deakin, John Carre Riddell and John Thomas Smith.
See here for a full
list.
Alfred Plumpton
composed a musical galop,
entitled "West Bourke
Plate Galop", in the period
1878-1882, apparently in honour of a
greyhound racing event. Presumably it was held somewhere in the
West Bourke electoral district.
West
Bourke Electoral District
covered the following areas:
Altona, Ascot Vale,
Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Coburg, Essendon, Fawkner,
Flemington, Footscray, Gisborne, Keilor, Kensington, Maribyrnong,
Melton, Moonee
Ponds, Mount Macedon, North Melbourne, St Albans, Sunbury, Sunshine,
Sydenham,
Werribee, Williamstown.
Index
to the West Bourke Electoral Roll 1850
We've
extended the boundaries to include Brunswick, Coburg and Fawkner, towns
whose history is parallel with the other suburban parts of the West
Bourke district.
Here is a
map which shows
the old electoral division of West Bourke.
For
any enquiries, please email us at westbourkev@hotmail.com
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our "My
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Heritage
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