Welcome to the South Canterbury
New Zealand GenWeb Project
South Canterbury, New Zealand lies in the centre of the South
Island bounded by the
Rangitata River to the north and Waitaki River to the south and stretching from
the east coast to the
Southern Alps where Mount Cook dominates the range. The
5,276 square miles or 3,504,640 acres of land changes from plain to downland to
foothills and mountains. The Mackenzie Basin has three large lakes Ohau, Pukaki
and Tekapo that are all
part of the Waitaki River catchment and contributes to the supply of water which
provides electric power for the South Island. Industries include grain growing
and sheep. The port of Timaru is a central multipurpose bulk handling facility. The foothills -
Four Peaks, Hunter Hills, the hills behind
Fairlie and the Two Thumb Range
are often dusted with snow.
Refresh page to view the images above - four of the photos are
views on the opposite side of Four Peaks, the Fairlie Basin, looking back
towards Four Peaks from Middle Rd, Sherwood Downs and a painting of the run "Ribbonwood"
on the Two Thumb Range, Sherwood Downs, Fairlie.
BDM NZ Historical records
searchable online, it is possible to
work out the DOB or DOD, narrow the range down.
Online cemetery listings etc.
Museum -
database online
Family history: how to start
Hint:
Construct your entry off line, do spell check, then cut and paste.
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TIMARU's FESTIVAL OF ROSES 20-29 November 2009 Every year in November
Maoris first
settled the area and there is only one Maori community
left in the region and that is at Arowhenua, which is located 1 km south of
Temuka. Timaru, which means "Place of Shelter" for Maori travellers canoeing
along the coastline was a whaling station in the 1830s. The Rhodes brothers
from Yorkshire, England established the Levels sheep run in 1850, the
Hornbrook brothers
took up Arowhenua in 1853,
Michael Studholme in
1854 established in the Waimate area.
John Acland and
Charles Tripp
established Mt Peel in
1856. South
Canterbury places.
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Archways,
Archives
New Zealand
have digitalised 3453 items
Keyword: View Digitised Record
Agency: AABK [for WW1 and SA records] 1684 items found in July 2009
AABK
TASKER, Frederick Timaru - WW1 7/2316 - Army
ViewDigitised
Record (PDF, 4.0Mb)
and 1769 items under AAQT e.g.
Mt Wakefield
Arable Farming, South Canterbury, October, 1947
- Loading a driller ready for a day in the field.
- Loading small seeds ready for drilling.
- Night Ploughing
- Tractors are generally refuelled at the end of the day, ready for early start the following morning.
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The South Canterbury War Memorial Project
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Message Board: GEDCOM files and pictures can be attached, .JPG or .GIF format to a message. Maybe you have unidentified photos you would like to upload so that others might view and possibly identify or decipher the place, people, medal, signature, passenger list, etc. If you have a photo of an ancestor's headstone upload it when posting an obituary for that individual. RootsWeb genealogy mailing lists New Zealand mailing lists
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Please email me any photographs and old postcard images of South Canterbury for the site! Thanks. Adopt A Cemetery in South Canterbury
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My
viewers know more than I do. We are very interested in what you know. We want
to help you share. volunteer:
There are many opportunities for people to become involved in the GenWeb
Project which is dedicated to making genealogical information available online
for free. South Canterbury war memorial transcriptions, cemetery listings,
electoral rolls, Wises Directory information, school reunion announcements are
areas where you can get involved. Does not take any special skills other than
the desire to help others. Also looking for volunteers to do lookups in
genealogical material. If anyone knows of information sources for South
Canterbury or if you want to volunteer to help with lookups etc., please
send me an email 
. I
am looking for three more photos on South Canterbury scenes, buildings, events
etc. with similar dimensions. Images welcomed.
Keeping Internet Genealogy Free. If you have an interest in South Canterbury this site will be a good starting place. My mission is to provide local history and family history scholars information to help facilitate research. If you would like to contribute information to these pages, please email me.
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NZGenWeb Regional Projects are dedicated to the free exchange of public - domain records via the internet. Volunteer's are still needed to adopt other NZ regions. Contact Leith Hutton for details.
The South Canterbury NZGenWeb Project has no affiliation
with any commercial enterprise.
This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in
any fashion without my consent except for private study. ©1998 - 2009 Olwyn
Whitehouse