Category: Significant Events

By Heather Wade, 2024. By the 1890s, with a growing population, the settlers in the Harvey district were banding together…

By Mike Reeve, 2007. Before opening the Show, I would like to share a few memories of past Brunswick Shows…

By Samantha Williams, Club Secretary, 2014 On Saturday, 24 May 2014 the Harvey District Trotting Club held its last meeting…

It won’t be long before preparations will begin for celebrating the Bicentenary of white settlement in Western Australia. With proposals…

By Heather Wade, 2020. The accident that occurred on the Mornington line on Saturday, 6 November 1920 remains the rail…

The Harvey Citrus Society, formed in 1904, held its inaugural Fruit Show in August 1905. It was opened by Mr…

The Directors of the Western Australian Company celebrated the occasion of the sailing of their first ship, the Island Queen…

Irrigation in South-Western Australia The first irrigation water conservation scheme in Western Australia was the lower dam on the Harvey…

Contributed by Mr Jack Lowe, Chairman of the Harvey Road Board, and member of the Irrigation Commission … On the…

Leopoldo Zunini, Royal Consol of Italy, travelled throughout Western Australia in the early 1900s and wrote his impressions of various…