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First Settlers Quiz
1. One of the first streets to be named in Perth honours the memory of the first medical man in Perth, the surgeon of the 63rd regiment and the founder of the Colonial Hospital among other things. Who was he?
2. Another Perth street, apparently among the first two to be named for someone actually in the colony, honours the first military commandant. Who was he?
3. Who was the second most powerful man in the colony in 1834, as not only Colonial Secretary but also Secretary of the Legislative Council? He arrived on the Parmelia in 1829 (like most of the people in this quiz), gave Bassendean its name, and died in the colony in 1846.
4. Who gave her first name to a large bay in the Swan River? It won't help if I tell you that her maiden name was Bennett, nor that the bay had four other names, but you would probably recognise her married name, which we'll get to in the next question.
5. Speaking of her husband, who was he? When he wasn't busy drawing the original plans of the towns of both Perth and Fremantle, he was off exploring parts of the Wheatlands - as the Wheat Belt was then to be called.
6. I believe James Stirling gave his wife's first name to only one thing - tho there is a street named in her honour in Fremantle, but probably not by Stirling himself. What was that name? Extra points if you can think of her second (maiden) name, and anything named after it.
7. Who was unemployed, having just been sacked, in the Cape Colony in South Africa, when James Stirling appointed him Civil Engineer of the colony which he was on his way to set up?
8. Who was appointed the first harbour master on the last day of 1828? When he got to the Swan River Colony he started work in a tent in Perth but soon moved to the wreck of the Marquis of Anglesea, as it was the most substantial 'building' in the whole of Western Australia.
9. What was the name of that harbour master's wife and why is she arguably now more important than he?
10. The deputy of the first harbour master arrived on the second passenger ship, the Calista, in August 1829. He later became the second harbour master and first chairman of the Town Trust (and so the equivalent of the first mayor). His three-storey house was prominent, being on the corner of High and Cliff Streets, the most important street corner in the early days. His name?
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