Queensland Family History Society Inc
QFHS Calendar Event
Members Lounge - Presenting … A Home-Grown Monarch of the Queen's State
Starts: 18 Sep 2024 at 1:00 PM
Ends: 18 Sep 2024 at 3:00 PM
Notes:
THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD ONLINE AND IN PERSON AT THE QFHS FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE i.e. A HYBRID MEETING.
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr Gary Bacon AM, BSc (For) Hon, PhD, Fifa
Gary held senior research and management positions in New South Wales and Queensland Government forestry trading enterprises and in the land management division within Primary Industries. He served as elected National Secretary and National President of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (1983-87) and was awarded the 2000 N W Jolly medal. He chaired the Australian organising team for the 2005 International Union of Forest Research Organisations World Congress. For the last decade plus he was a JAS-ANZ auditor, Industry consultant and Adjunct Professor in the Environmental Futures Institute at Griffith University mentoring overseas post-graduate students. Gary was elected as the Grand Master of Queensland Freemasons and a Director of Masonic Charity (2013), appointed a Member in the Order of Australia in the Queen’s birthday list (2016) and joined the Presidents 100, Qld State Library Foundation (2017).
2024 is the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the penal settlement of Moreton Bay at what is now called Redcliffe. After John Oxley and Allan Cunningham explored Maiwar (the Brisbane River) the settlement was moved to Brisbane in 1825. During their exploration Cunningham named the pine tree growing in thick brush near the river the Brisbane pine.
By focusing on Araucaria cunninghamii, the Queensland Family History Society will present a history of the Queensland timber industry. That history will include the discovery of the species, the pioneers, industry, timber sales and resources, and forestry plantations. The timeline will include pre-separation Queensland (New South Wales), colonial Queensland, and the Australian state of Queensland.
Gary Bacon is an engaging speaker who will give us an appreciation of the testing environments and living conditions which our fore-fathers and -mothers endured.
Presenting... times vary between 1pm and 7.30pm Please check the calendar carefully. You are welcome to attend as a visitor.
Note: This event is held in QLD time, AEST: no daylight saving. (GMT+10)
Please register your planned attendance whether you are attending in person or online.
*Image Lectotype specimen of Araucaria cunninghamii Aiton ex D.Don collected in 1819 at Cape Cleveland by Allan Cunningham and held by the Royal Botanic Garden Kew.
Lectotype: A specimen chosen by a later researcher to serve as if it were the holotype or first collected.