The Salvation Army Maternity Home Breakfast Creek, opened in 1897. Run by the Salvation Army, the Home provided accommodation and care for homeless girls and unmarried mothers and was a maternity home. Previously called the Maternity Home Brisbane, the home closed in 1924 when the Boothville Mothers Hospital opened at Windsor.
The Maternity Home Brisbane was run by the Salvation Army. The home provided care and accommodation for single pregnant girls and young mothers and their babies. It opened in 1892 at Upper Edward Street, Brisbane. In 1895 a gas leak caused an explosion at the home, injuring a staff member, and blowing out the door…
The Hope Vale Mission, at Hope Vale, was run by Lutheran Church missionaries. Previously known as Hope Valley Mission, it was taken over by the Army in 1942 and residents were transferred to Woorabinda in southern Queensland. After World War Two, in 1949, a work party of former residents returned to re-establish the mission which…
The Hope Valley Mission, at Hope Valley, was run by Lutheran Church Missionaries. Previously known as the Cape Bedford Mission, it was established around 1896 and closed in May 1942. It reopened as the Hope Vale Mission in 1950. The Hope Valley Mission was established when the administrative centre for the Mission at Elim moved…
The Cape Bedford Mission, at Elim, was run by Lutheran Church Missionaries. It opened in 1886 and moved to Hope Valley around 1896. The Mission was founded by Reverend Johann Flier from Cooper Creek in South Australia. In November 1855 Flier was on his way to found a Mission in Papua New Guinea when he…
The Cooyar Mission, in Cooyar, was established by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in conjunction with the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. The facility housed Torres Strait Islanders evacuated from the Hammond Island Mission Orphanage and St Henry’s Roman Catholic Asylum due to the outbreak of World War Two. It opened…
The Hammond Island Mission Orphanage, on Hammond Island, was run by the the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. It opened in 1929 and closed in January 1942, when the residents were evacuated to Cooyar. A boys’ dormitory housed the children. The orphanage reopened in 1948, ‘for only a short time’ (Deere, 1994). Hammond Island was…
The Doomadgee Mission was established by the Open Brethren on the Nicholson River, in far North Queensland, in 1936. It opened in 1936, replacing the Old Doomadgee Mission which was damaged in a cyclone. Children on the Mission were housed in girls’ and boys’ dormitories, and were trained to become domestic servants or station hands….
The Old Doomadgee Mission was run by the Open Brethren. The Mission was located at Dumaji at Bayley Point Aboriginal reserve, on Gangalidda land. It opened in 1933 and following a cyclone, relocated to a site on the Nicholson River in 1936. The Old Doomadgee Mission is described as growing “rapidly with the arrival of…
The Daintree River Mission, near Mossman, was run by the Assemblies of God. It opened in 1941. Children on the Mission were housed in girls’ and boys’ dormitories. The mission closed in 1962 and the residents transferred to the Mossman Gorge Mission. A girls’ dormitory was officially opened at the Daintree River Mission on 22…
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