CANADIAN LEAD HOMES
- Family group outside bark house, Canadian Lead (?)
Source: SLNSW
- Woman and child outside bark hut, Canadian Lead
Source: SLNSW
- Woman in front of weatherboard house with bark roof, Canadian Lead
Source: SLNSW
- Couple in front of their weatherboard house with bark roof, Canadian Lead
Source: SLNSW
- Three women outside the store next to the Shamrock Hotel, Canadian Lead
Source: SLNSW
See also:
- HOLLOW (external site)James Hollow and Alicia Williams were married in Sydney in 1858. He was a Cornish stone-mason, she was an Irish girl of 18 years. They moved to the gold mining area around Mudgee and Gulgong. They searched for gold, they selected, cleared and farmed a plot of land, and they had fifteen children.
CANADIAN LEAD STORES
- MARK GLESS, STORE
- GENERAL STORES
- J H MURRAY STORE
- JOHN NICHOLAS DAVEY BAKERY
- WORMALL BROS, BUTCHERS
- BILLIARD ROOM
- BLACKSMITHS
- CHARLES McEWEN'S GENERAL STORE
- BUTCHER SHOP
- ARNOLD BROTHERS
- WILLIAM KELLETT
Mine head at Canadian Lead, 1872
Source: SLNSW
Mark Gless' Canadian Lead Store
Source: SLNSW
J H Murray's Store, Canadian Lead, 1872
Source: SLNSW
John Nicholas Davey, Bakery, Canadian Lead, 1872
Source: SLNSW
Group around blacksmith's shed, Canadian Lead(?)
Source: SLNSW
Wormall Bros., butchers, Canadian Lead
Source: SLNSW
Butcher shop of Daniel and Edward Wormall in the main street of Canadian Lead. In 1873 Edward Wormall was charged with receiving stolen cattle, and Daniel continued the business on his own.
Source: Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis Research, Gulgong (Apr 2007)
Location of Canadian Lead and Public School
Source: Parish maps
NEWS ITEMS
1872 - COACH ACCIDENT
At about a quarter past 6 o'clock on Thursday evening (says the Western Post), as Mr. Little's coach, from Gulgong, was approaching the dam over Cox's Swamp, on the Menah Flat Road, a dogcart containing a man named Joseph Williams, from the Canadian Lead, his wife and young child, came dashing along and reached it. In endeavouring to pass, the dogcart came in contact with the hind wheel of the coach, and the occupants of the former were thrown out. The female passenger was thrown face downwards, and a wheel of the dogcart passed over her back. Fortunately constables Oliver and M'Gillon were on the spot, and assisted in lifting the dogcart off the unfortunate woman, whom they put
into the coach and sent to Mudgee to receive medical attendance. The male passenger sustained a few slight scratches, but the child was uninjured.
1875 - MEASLES
The 'Gulgong Argus' relates that the family of Mr. Eagan, a farmer near the Canadian Lead, has been sadly bereaved during the past few weeks. In the first place, all the members of the family were suffering from measles. Partially recovering from that disease, typhoid fever supervened, which has proved fatal in four instances. Four of the children, aged respectively 8, 11, 15, and 18 years, have died during the past ten days, and the father now lies in a very critical position, suffering from the same disease.
Source: The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (NSW : 1856 - 1861; 1863 - 1889; 1891 - 1954) Fri 9 Apr 1875 Page 4
1910 - PROSPECTOR'S DEATH
Mr. William Mayes, an old resident of Canadian, near Gulgong, died in the local hospital last evening. Deceased had resided at Canadian since 1871, and was one of the prospectors who discovered the famous Canadian Lead gold mine.
