On 1st April 1921, Spreydon joined the Greater Christchurch and came under the care of the C.C.C. The area that we now know as the suburb of Spreydon was first owned by Augustus Moore who named it after his family’s land back in Ireland in 1853. Some reports stated that he farmed his land but …
Seventy seven years after Captain William Barnard Rhodes stocked Canterbury with its first hoof stock and fifty eight years after William Sefton Moorhouse became Canterbury’s second Superintendent; their fighter pilot grandson and nephew was flying wounded during WWI. He had just bombed a Belgium railway junction but had been badly wounded by ground gunfire. He …
On 22 December 1885, the statue to honour the service of the late William Sefton Moorhouse was unveiled in the Christchurch Botanical Gardens. He had been Canterbury’s second Superintendent and served in this role twice – first in 1858 to 1862 and again in 1866 to 1868. He was further honoured in 1903 when the …
On 9 December 1867, the most ambitious and controversial project ever taken on by such a young city as Christchurch was completed. Since the formation of the Canterbury Provincial Council in 1853, an easier route from Lyttelton to Christchurch had been a hot topic. Only two ways seemed possible – a railway following the harbour …
When the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 was established, New Zealand was split up into six provinces. Each province was its own sub-government and these were built around the six original settlements. The Canterbury Province sat between the Hurunui and Waitaki River and stretched right over to the West Coast. At the head was a …
