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Peak Crossing is a rural village 20 km south of central Ipswich. It is west of Flinders Peak (675m) which is in the Scenic Rim, and was named after a crossing point on the Purga Creek. Peak Crossing is nine km west of Flinders Peak. Farm selections in the Peak Crossing district were taken up in the 1860s, and a primary school was opened in 1871. At first named Purga Creek, it was renamed Peak Mountain in about 1875 and Peak Crossing in the early 1920s. By the end of the 1870s Peak Crossing had a Congregational church, two stores and the Peak Mountain Hotel. In 1882 the railway to Harrisville was opened with a stop at Peak Crossing, and a Catholic church was built. There is a record of a Presbyterian church in the 1892 post office directory. The Catholic Church appears to have been the strongest faith in the district, with its adherents forming a Hibernian Society in 1881. Peak Crossing had an active farming community, and it continues in conjunction with rural/residential living and the Peak Views estate west of the village. There are a general store, the Peak Pub and the P-7 school with an enrolment of 209 pupils in 2013. Source: queenslandplaces.com.au/peak-crossing

According to Wikipedia, Purga Creek No 2 School opened on 4 September 1871.[8] It was renamed Peak Mountain State School before 1875. In the late 1920s it was renamed Peak Crossing State School.[

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See wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ir... Birth: 4 Jan 1885 in Barrie, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada Death: 31 Dec 1974 in Woodbridge, York County, Ontario, Canada "Grace Hewson Knight, 88, last survivor of the first four women lawyers in the British Empire, died on December 31 at Woodbridge in a nursing home. Daughter of Judge Charles Hewson of Barrie, she developed practice in real estate law. In 1912, she married geologist Cyril W. Knight." "Mrs. Knight was the fourth woman to obtain a law degree in Canada, but she always preferred to be called the fourth in the British Empire to demonstrate how slow all countries were in recognizing women's rights. She attended Osgood Hall law school and was admitted to the bar in 1908, a few years after Ontario's first woman lawyer, Clara Brett Martin, fought the Upper Canada Law Society and caused a special act to be passed to allow her to practice."