Author: Rita Mitchell nee Brett
Editors: Ken Gray & Diane Bull
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Most of north Queensland’s histories are written by male authors and their focus is often on the lives of males. Here we have a female author relaying what it was like for women living in the north in the early 1900s. Rita depicts the day to day life of Nell and her family as they struggled to make good with few resources or comforts.
Author: Ken Gray
Editors: Diane Bull & Chris Forbes
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Margaret and Joe Collins are part of an iconic Mission Beach family that started in Australia when Joe’s grandfather, Edgar Collins, arrived in North Queensland as an 18-year-old seeking great adventure in 1887. He found it in bucket loads.
Author: Peter Alexander & Ken Gray
Editors: Margaret Remilton & Diane Bull
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The Mission Beach Historical Society published Bicton: The Cuttens of Clump Point in 2021 and this included some history of the Alexander family when they lived in the district on and off from 1885 to 1954. While this gives us some understanding of the Alexander family at Bingil Bay, it says little about how they got here and where the family came from. Peter’s story fills in many gaps in the Bicton story.
Author: Ray Langford
Editors: Ken Gray & Diane Bull
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In relation to the recording of stories behind local street names, this is a submission to the Mission Beach Historical Society regarding the name “Ohl Road” at the end of Boyett Road up past the old school site at North Mission Beach.
Author: Christine Forbes
Editors: Ken Gray, Margaret Remilton & Diane Bull
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This is the story of Bingil Bay resident Chris Forbes (nee Cope) who has lived in this district for 54 years. Chris and her husband Gary camped on the beach at Bingil Bay when they first visited the area in 1961.
Told by: Bob & Julie West
Compiled by: Ken Gray
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The West family came from Milla Milla on the Tablelands in 1955. George West set up as the first full time builder-carpenter in the district and they lived at Clump Point near Perrier Walk.
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