Christchurch New Zealand. A great Art Deco apartment building in the CBD. This one survived the major 2011 earthquakes which flattened much of the city centre. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Christchurch New Zealand. A great Art Deco apartment building in the CBD. This one survived the major 2011 earthquakes which flattened much of the city centre. / denisbin
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| 説明 | The Canterbury Association and the Foundation of Christchurch. The city was named by Robert Godley after Christ Church College at Oxford which he had attended. With his colleague Edward Gibbon Wakefield they established the Canterbury Association in 1848 receiving a Royal Charter to establish a new colony in NZ in 1849. The Association included two archbishops, seven bishops and fourteen peers. Wakefield, had been involved in the ideas behind the settlement of SA in 1836 and he as the prime mover and backer of the New Zealand Company which had established Wellington in 1840, and he was partially involved in the settlement of Dunedin in 1848 for the free Church of Scotland. (But the main force behind Dunedin was the Otago Association.) The Canterbury Association had among its members the Archbishop of Canterbury and the settlement had a strong Anglican flavour to it. Godley was an Irishman but a supporter of the Anglican Church hence his desire to establish a colony based on the Anglican Church. He teamed up with Wakefield. Godley came out to the colony, arriving at Lyttelton in 1850 with his family and the other Anglican pilgrims of the first fleet, but he only stayed in Christchurch for two years. He was the settlement’s leader until 1852 and instrumental in setting up the city. The residents later in 1867 erected a statue of Godley which sits near the old Anglican Cathedral. The river through the settlement was named the Avon River( by the Deans brothers in 1847), the streets were named after English cathedral cities and British colonial cathedral cities – Gloucester, Oxford, Cambridge, Hereford, Salisbury, Worcester etc and Montreal, Madras, Barbados, Colombo etc. The city squares were named after founders of the Anglican Church who were burnt at the stake by the Catholic Queen Mary in 1855 – Cranmer and Latimer. This was going to be above all else an Anglican colony and as almost all members of the Canterbury Association were staunch, aristocratic Anglicans. 28 ships carrying 3,500 passengers landed at Lyttelton harbour between 1850 and 1853 when the Canterbury Association was wound up. Members of the Canterbury Association gave their names locations in the colony such as Lyttelton after Lord Lyttelton, Cavendish near Ashburton after Lord Cavendish, and other locations after Lord Harewood, Lord Lincoln, John Hutt ( also a land owner in SA), Sumner ( he was the Archbishop of Canterbury 1848-62) etc. Twenty seven Anglican priests were also members of the Canterbury Association. Joseph Thomas was the surveyor for the Canterbury Association and he was the one who selected the Canterbury Plains as the Association wanted a settlement with at least 300,000 acres of arable farming land. He partially selected the region because after the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 the land here had been purchased from the Maori by the British government. After purchasing the land from the government Thomas paid out the existing two white settler families in the region who were the Dean brothers at Riccarton who were granted 400 acres and the Rhodes brothers who were granted 450 acres on Lyttelton harbour. The settlement was ready to progress with its Anglican settlers plus one Wesleyan Methodist family and one Church of Scotland family. But the High Anglicans encouraged Catholics to emigrate and the colony soon had a mix of denominations living in it. Many of the founding members of the Canterbury Association purchased land either in Christchurch or somewhere on the plains in the initial years even if they never visited the colony. Over 10,000 acres in relatively small lots was sold to the Association members. Most sold the land at a profit a few years later but some stayed on and farmed for generations. Some members of the Association only purchased town lots within Christchurch itself. The population of Canterbury (which was primarily Christchurch) grew from 3,500 in 1852 to 16,000 in 1861, 50,000 in 1871 and 130,000 by 1891. Meantime the population of Christchurch rose from 51,000 in 1896 to 80,000 in 1911, 105,000 in 1921 and 132,000 in 1936. Today Christchurch has over 400,000 inhabitants. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-04-13 10:59:00 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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