About this site
How to Use the Site
This site will help those searching for meaningful material on the British emigration to Canterbury, New Zealand Aotearoa in 1850.
Designed to complement existing books, museum visits and classroom studies, this website provides a collection of accounts reproduced from first hand accounts (primary sources) and other sources not always easily accessible to the general public (e.g. a university thesis). The sources are not presented in their original form, but have been presented in a way that people of all ages and learning stages can enjoy.
Three sections briefly introduce you to three areas:
This site will help those searching for meaningful material on the British emigration to Canterbury, New Zealand Aotearoa in 1850.
Designed to complement existing books, museum visits and classroom studies, this website provides a collection of accounts reproduced from first hand accounts (primary sources) and other sources not always easily accessible to the general public (e.g. a university thesis). The sources are not presented in their original form, but have been presented in a way that people of all ages and learning stages can enjoy.
Three sections briefly introduce you to three areas:
- Will You Join Us: Would you have emigrated to the Canterbury Settlement?
- Our Journey: What was it like aboard the Canterbury Association’s four ships?
- Our New Land: Consider the challenges and choices during the early days of British settlement.
In each of these sections you can both navigate to pages which present historical accounts on the site, or print out site pages and use them away from your computer.
Each page features historical extracts from written material, images and links, along with instructions, questions and suggestions for exploring these in more detail. Descriptions and sources are given for the written extracts and images that have been used on the site.
Many of the images are linked to larger images on source sites. Click on an image to see if it will enlarge. Some of the source sites have a magnifying glass which you can click on to get an even larger image or to highlight particular areas of the image.
You can navigate throughout the site by using the side bar, which has slide-out subsections , by using the links at the bottom of each page, or from the site map. Within each section there are links at the bottom of the page to the other topics within a section like this:
See also >>
Our new land | Food | Shelter | Stormy weather
The page you are currently on will be black.
Some pages are split into 3 or 4 sub-pages. Look out for numbered page links like this:
Pages: 1 2 3 at the bottom.
These links will take you through to another page on the site with more information on the same topic.
There are a number of links within the text to external resources or to relevant information within the site. These are underlined in brown.
Background about the site
This site was originally developed with funding from New Zealand Historic Places Trust - Pouhere Taonga (NZHPT) for the Canterbury Branch Committee of NZHPT by Fiona Clayton of VividPast with design by Hot Pyjama Productions Ltd.
Fiona Clayton is an Historian, Communications and Interpretation professional who has had an ongoing interest in public history and engaging with communities in life-long-learning environments. When asked by the Canterbury Branch to create a resource for young people about the Bridlepath she suggested that a website would reach more people, and cost less in the long term than a hard copy resource. New Zealand students, teachers, families and visitors from near and far would encounter information drawn from primary material from museums, archives and libraries they might not be able to visit immediately, but would be inspired to understand their immense value in revealing our past, explaining our present, and determining our future.
In 2012 the Canterbury Branch Committee was disestablished and has been replaced by Historic Places Canterbury (HPC) an independent NGO. The website has been reconfigured by HPC, which now maintains the site.
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Haere Mai, Welcome / Solving History’s Mysteries / Will you join us? / Our Journey / Our New Land / Resources/ About this site / Links / Sitemap
Each page features historical extracts from written material, images and links, along with instructions, questions and suggestions for exploring these in more detail. Descriptions and sources are given for the written extracts and images that have been used on the site.
Many of the images are linked to larger images on source sites. Click on an image to see if it will enlarge. Some of the source sites have a magnifying glass which you can click on to get an even larger image or to highlight particular areas of the image.
You can navigate throughout the site by using the side bar, which has slide-out subsections , by using the links at the bottom of each page, or from the site map. Within each section there are links at the bottom of the page to the other topics within a section like this:
See also >>
Our new land | Food | Shelter | Stormy weather
The page you are currently on will be black.
Some pages are split into 3 or 4 sub-pages. Look out for numbered page links like this:
Pages: 1 2 3 at the bottom.
These links will take you through to another page on the site with more information on the same topic.
There are a number of links within the text to external resources or to relevant information within the site. These are underlined in brown.
Background about the site
This site was originally developed with funding from New Zealand Historic Places Trust - Pouhere Taonga (NZHPT) for the Canterbury Branch Committee of NZHPT by Fiona Clayton of VividPast with design by Hot Pyjama Productions Ltd.
Fiona Clayton is an Historian, Communications and Interpretation professional who has had an ongoing interest in public history and engaging with communities in life-long-learning environments. When asked by the Canterbury Branch to create a resource for young people about the Bridlepath she suggested that a website would reach more people, and cost less in the long term than a hard copy resource. New Zealand students, teachers, families and visitors from near and far would encounter information drawn from primary material from museums, archives and libraries they might not be able to visit immediately, but would be inspired to understand their immense value in revealing our past, explaining our present, and determining our future.
In 2012 the Canterbury Branch Committee was disestablished and has been replaced by Historic Places Canterbury (HPC) an independent NGO. The website has been reconfigured by HPC, which now maintains the site.
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Haere Mai, Welcome / Solving History’s Mysteries / Will you join us? / Our Journey / Our New Land / Resources/ About this site / Links / Sitemap