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Darebin’s Australians
Immigrants to Citizens

A 24 card collectable series & website exploring the social history & contribution that waves of immigration have made to The City of Darebin - past to present

Click Here to visit Darebin's Sporting Australians, 4 additional cards to coincide with the Commonwealth Games.

Click Bibliography for a list of sources used in compiling the stories

  Choose a card Immigrants to Citizens Wurundjeri Rose, Shamrock & Thistle Germans Chinese Market Gardens Federation 1901 Lebanese Italian Fruiterers Henry P Zwar Populate or Perish Italians Greeks Macedonians Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls Industry Chinese Vietnamese Hmong India Arabic Community East Timor The Sudanese Faith Australia Card

(1) - Immigrants to Citizens ‘Darebin’s Australians -148 countries-105 languages’	(2) - Wurundjeri - 40,000 years + ‘always a meeting place’	(3) - Rose, Shamrock & Thistle - 1835 John Batman - Irish Town - Mary Cora Negri’
(4) - Germans - 1849 ‘William Westgarth’	(5) - Chinese Market Gardens - 1880-1940s ‘merri & darebin creeks’	(6) - Federation 1901 ‘white australia - australian natives association’
(7) - Lebanese - 1919 ‘The Life of George Saleeba’	(8) - Italian Fruiterers on High St 1920-’50s ‘to the land of ‘i kanguri’	(9)- Henry P Zwar - 1930s ‘the King of Preston’
(10) - Populate or Perish - 1947 ‘new australians - nissen huts’	(11) - Italians - 1950s ‘terra straniera’	(12)- Greeks - 1950s ‘they came to Kythera’
(13) - Macedonians - 1950s ‘pecalbari - language & tradition’	(14) - Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls - 1906-88 ‘Northcote, a friend of the Aborigine’	(15) - Industry - Working Class - 1950s ‘Preston Tram Workshops’
(16) - Chinese - 1960s ‘eastern & western cultures’	(17) - Vietnamese - 1970s ‘new beginning’	(18) - Hmong - 1980s ‘stopping in & moving on’
(19) -India - Sri Lanka - 1990s ‘teaching the old to the new’	(20) - Arabic Community - 1970s ‘welcome’	(21) - East Timor - 2001 ‘Citizens of Darebin & Yarra - Friends of Baucau’
(22) - The Sudanese - 2003 ‘from African’s largest country’	(23) - Faith ‘Darebin’s religions’	(24) - Australia Card - 2004 DECC ‘Darebin Ethnic Communities Council’
Produced by Carmelina Di Guglielmo & Roberto D’Andrea- ‘The Connies’ for the Darebin Ethnic Communities Council & the City of Darebin funded by The Victorian Multicultural Commission to promote harmony & understanding.