Glenlyon House

Glenlyon House

Glenlyon House was one of the earliest residences in the Enoggera area. Glenlyon house was a 250 acre block; it was built in the late 1870's
for a man called Alexander Stewart. Alexander Stewart was a partner in the merchant firm of Stewart and Hemmant. When Alexander died in
1918, Glenlyon house was sold and subdivided but the house still remained. Marist Fathers bought Glenlyon House in the early 1930's. It was
named after Alexander's birth place Glen Lyon, in Scotland. Glenlyon House is a two story brick home; it has hand painted ceilings, stain glass
windows and a statue of virgin Mary and a child. This statue used to be a crest of the 'Lions Club' but it was replaced when the Marist fathers
moved in. Glenlyon House is now local heritage and nothing can be done to it.

Emma Miller

Emma Miller

Emma Miller is one of the most important women in Australian politic history. She was born into the Charist family in 1839, in England. Emma Miller married 3 times but all of her husband’s past away before her. Emma and her 3rd husband Andrew Miller migrated to Brisbane in 1879. Emma Miller founded a union in 1890 which advocated equal pay and votes for women. In 1891 she was still involved in her clothing trade, she gave evidence to the Queensland government's royal commission in shops, factories and workshops. In 1894-1905 Emma Miller became president of the Women’s equal franchise association, and in 1905 women had the right to vote in federal Parliament. She died in Toowoomba on the 22nd of January 1917. At her memorial flags were put at half-mast. Emma Miller was Proud to be known as 'Mother Miller'. She was buried at Toowong Cemetery.

Turrbal People

Australia still is inhabited by indigenous Australian tribal groups and one of these groups where the Turrbal people. Turrbal people were the first people to find Brisbane before the European settlers came in 1825, and they are the original land owners of Ashgrove. The Europeans claimed an area which they thought was nothing, but in this area Turrbal people had already discovered this land and where using it. There land extended from far inland to the Gold Creek or Moggill or as far as North Pine, and the South of the Logan River.  In the early 1900’s other tribal groups tried to claim Brisbane as their homeland.

The Turrbal people were very territorial about their land and if another tribe crossed their lad they would have been killed on site. The roads were the borders and the most popular one was boundary road.

Some of the Turrbal people’s path ways are still in Brisbane today but have just changed the tribal names. Waterworks road in Ashgrove was built on a Turrbal pathway which led up to
Mt-Coot-Tha, it was their place of the honey bee.

My Experience at Mt St Michaels

My experience at Mt St Michaels

I have really enjoyed my time at Mt St Michaels so far. I have made lots of new friends and I have really enjoyed doing art and co-curricular sports. On the first day of school we got our diaries, calendars, lanyard and our locks for our lockers. We had about half an hour to work out how to use them but that wasn’t enough for me. I took me two days to learn how to do it so everyone knew my pass word. The assemblies are really different to ours because they have put dances and entertainment in the assemblies but ours was like hello my name is blah and they were really boring. But the other day the teachers were doing handstands and dancing around in golden suits and the last assembly we had the year 12’s were dancing and fighting each other which was really funny. But now everyone looks forward to assemblies. I have enjoyed art because we actually do paintings and drawings but you would think that’s normal but in primary school we just did lots of drama and music but hardly any art. And our art teacher is really nice. I have also really enjoyed Sose. Our Sose teacher is Mr Noonan and on our first lesson he broke the door because he was trying to close it but he pushed it to hard. Now the whole school knows him as ‘The guy who broke the door’ we are going to the cemetery next week which is kind of creepy but we don’t know if it will be as scary as we think. We got our tablets on Thursday and we were the first year 8 to get them in Mt St Michael’s history. The year 9’s year sad, which was kind of funny. They are touch screen and they fold in half which I thought was pretty cool! I have been playing Water Polo through Mt St Michaels since the last term of year 7. We play at Summer Ville pool in the under 14’s division on a Saturday. I have enjoyed it and I have made lots of new friends. I have just started playing volleyball through school aswell we start training today for the first time and I am really looking forward to that. I am in the year 8-12 volley ball team but we don’t know what division yet.