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Lake Condah Mission

Lake Condah is located in the South West of Victoria near the coast.

Lake Condah Mission Timeline

1869

The Victorian Government built Lake Condah Mission.

1870

The Lake Condah Mission School opened.

1883

St, Mary’s Church of England as built and opened.

1913

Reverend Stahle the Mission manager retired and it became a Government Mission.

1919

The Board for the Protection of the Aborigines closed Lake Condah Mission.

1951

The Victorian State Government handed over nearly all of the Lake Condah Reserve to the Soldier Settlement Commission to give the soldiers from WII farming land.

1984

The Victorian Government returned 53 hectares of the original Lake Condah Reserve to the local Aboriginal community.

Education

Aboriginals have always taught their children through stories and their customs, but at the mission they were not allowed to do this. They were taught in a European and unfamiliar way.

The Lake Condah area was home to the Kerrupjmara people prior to the Europeans.

Work and Wages.

Many missions made money by farming and putting the residents to work. The residents didn’t see anything for their labour apart from maybe a small increase in their food.

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