Portrait of Anna Christina Kruse in Danish national costume. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

National Danish costume, c1907. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

A notable feature of the early Chinese settlement in Queensland, as in other places where overseas Chinese societies developed, was a communal pattern of settlement.

The Lebanese community in Queensland began as a small relatively segregated group.

Queensland Royal Mail Steamers, London Emigration pamphlet, c1890. Note the route from London through the Suez Canal direct to Queensland. Courtesy Fryer Library, University of Queensland
Sugar planting in Queensland, Emigration pamphlet, The Times London, c1890 Courtesy Fryer Library, University of Queensland

One of the first provisions made by the new Queensland Parliament in May 1860 was to encourage immigration to the vast land area encompassed by the newly declared colony. By the end of the yea

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