canobiestation

Group of men at Canobie Station, ca. 1895

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Canobie Station, often just referred to as Canobie, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station. It is located about 143 kilometers (89 mi) north of Cloncurry and 198 kilometers (123 mi) southwest of Croydon in Queensland. The station takes its name from a corruption of the traditional owners' name of the locale: Conobie.[2] The station was first established in 1864 when Edward Palmer, originally from Wollongong, stocked the property with cattle and sheep.[2] The first wool was taken off Canobie in 1865 to Burketown. Palmer's partner, Mr Shrewing, died of gulf fever in the first year and the station was drought-stricken for the first few years then flooded in 1869–1870. Palmer was of the view that British colonizers like him had "a peculiar mission to supplant" the Aboriginal Australians and to "occupy the country that was wholly theirs". Palmer confirmed that Indigenous people were commonly shot and were "a hard-used race", but he thought that "the troublesome question" of finding a "solution" for the "blacks" was that "we have to occupy the country and no two races can inhabit the same country but the weaker must go to the wall". Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canobie_Station#:~:text=The%20stati....