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  2. Calvert Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Calvert.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Calvert Family. Undated label for a case of Calvert pears (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Free settler William Calvert arrived in 1832, and in 1851 he and his wife Hannah bought land at South Arm. The family prospered, receiving top prices for apples and

  3. Webster Limited

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Webster.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Webster Limited. AG Webster and Son's office in Hobart, 1910 (AOT, PH30/1/2447). Webster Limited began in 1831, when Charles Smith opened a wool and grain store in Hobart. His nephew Alexander George Webster joined the firm in 1850, and took over

  4. Seventh-day Adventist Church

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Seventh.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Seventh-day Adventist Church was established in Tasmania in 1888. The denomination originated in Michigan, USA in 1863, and in 1885 a group travelled to Australia and began preaching in Melbourne. After a church

  5. Fossils

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Fossils.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Fossils. The Fossil Cliffs at Maria Island, 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/2784). Tasmania has rocks of most ages during which obvious life existed and they tell the age of the rocks, of the environment in which they formed, how modern life evolved, and of

  6. Comalco

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Comalco.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Comalco. The Governor, Lord Rowallan, at the Comalco plant in 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3569). The first aluminium smelter in the southern hemisphere was built at Bell Bay near George Town and commenced production in 1955. The impetus was the need for a

  7. Tioxide

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tioxide.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Tioxide. The Titan Mill in 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/9049). Australian Titan Products Pty Ltd (the name changed to Tioxide Australia in 1972), a wholly owned subsidiary of British Titan Products Limited England, commenced operation in 1949 at Heybridge near

  8. Poverty

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Poverty.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Poverty. Photograph entitled 'Poor old Jimmy asking for 3d', Elwick Racecourse, 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/3633). There have always been those who have been in want, or lacking the means of reasonable subsistence. Poverty, however, is always relative and in

  9. Rostrum

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rostrum.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rostrum. Rostrum was founded in England in 1923 by journalist Sidney Wicks. The first Australian club was inaugurated in Sydney in 1930, and Rostrum was established in Tasmania in 1947. Clubs flourished in many parts of the state, with ten currently

  10. Shelter

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Shelter.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Shelter. The Tasmanian Aborigines used rock shelters from the earliest times, but left little trace of their structures; only on the inclement southern and south-western coasts were semipermanent buildings erected, with a framework of hoops, an

  11. Archery

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Archery.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Archery. Archery appeared formally in Tasmania in 1857 as a woman's sport, with clubs formed in Hobart, Launceston and the north-west. It fell from popularity in favour of tennis, but in the 1890s the New Town club was formed, with members competing
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