Local business owners are encouraged to take part in free one-on-one business advice sessions -- available every second Thursday at Council's Administration Centre. Next session is on 2 July 2009.
History and Heritage
The Local Studies collection at Campsie library is a specialised reference collection which will help you discover the history, geography and current issues in Canterbury City. The collection includes
- Photographs taken over 150 years with 10,000 online at Pictorial Canterbury
- Maps including land grants, parish maps and land subdivision plans to help you trace the history of your house.
- Newsletters of local community organisations
- Reports and environmental impact statements about Cooks River, Wolli Creek and the M5 Motorway.
- Local newspapers
Photo: Group portrait of the Canterbury Senior Soccer Football Club - Runners Up Metropolitan Competition for 1921.
The Local History Collection is located at:
Campsie Library
14-28 Amy Street
Campsie 2194
Phone 02 9789 9380
Fax 02 9787 2726
Email chrisk@canterbury.nsw.gov.auOpening Hours:
Monday to Friday 10am-8pm
Saturday 9.30am-4pm
Sunday 2pm-5pm
| The Local Studies area is Dedicated to the memory of Judith Mary Rooke, Chief Librarian and Municipal Historian who served council with distinction, 1951-1995. |
Open access
The LH collection is generally on open access with some exceptions:
- Newspaper clippings and ephemera are in local cabinets which staff will open upon request.
- In our stack collection
- Realia and some maps
- Local newspapers 1950 to date
- SMH from 1950-65
- A collection of historic street directories is shelved with the Local History Librarian.
More and more of the resources of our local studies collection are being progressively made available online. The launch of the Pictorial Canterbury Photograph database makes 10,000 images from the collection accessible online. It augments our cemetery transcripts (with photographs) for 2 of the 3 local cemeteries. Indexes to subdivision plans are being progressively published. A database of Canterbury street names and their origins will soon follow. Other information researched by Local Studies staff for council projects and events is being published on this site, and we are hoping to soon add sections of historical publications which are out of print.
-- Canterbury City Council Historical Archives --There are some items that are held at the Government Records Repository. A list is available here. To access an item on this list, contact the Local History Librarian on 02 97899380 or email library@canterbury.nsw.gov.au. |
Family History Collection
The FH collection is housed near to the LH collection in the main part of the library. The Local and Family History Collections are complementary and should be used in conjunction for local history research. Especially for electoral rolls, birth, death and marriage records, early Sydney newspapers and the complete Sands directory on microfiche.
Pictorial Canterbury