The Canterbury Employers’ Chamber Of Commerce Opened – 19th August 1859
When the ‘Charlotte Jane’, the first of the Canterbury Association ships arrived at Port Lyttelton mid December 1850, around seven hundred people were already living in and working around the harbour. On 3rd January 1851, a ‘Charlotte Jane’ passenger, Edward Ward, wrote the following into his journal… “Rode with Mr. [John Robert] Godley [Founder of …
