Location
Canoelands is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Canoelands is 60 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire and The Hills Shire. (wikipedia)
History
The area was inhabited by Indigenous Australians of the Dharug-speaking tribes. To the west they join the Boorooberongal clan (which extended to Windsor) and the Cattai clan (extending to Richmond) and to the south they joined the Bidjigal people around Castle Hill. To the east they joined the large Eora-speaking tribes which covered the coastal area. Within Canoelands there are many aboriginal rock carvings in caves and on rocky outcrops. These are all under the care of the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
In early times, it became a timber-getting area for Sydney. The treefellers found tall stringybark gumtrees (E. cephalocarpa) with large, uniform patches of bark missing. These pieces of bark were cut out with stone axes and used by the local Aboriginal people to make canoes to use on the Hawkesbury River. Such trees were aptly named canoe trees.
As the trees were used for mill logs, none remains in the area but preserved specimens may be examined at other places, e.g., in the Pioneers Park at Griffith, New South Wales. The area was originally named “The Canoe Grounds” and is shown as such in a Gregory’s Directory of 1946. Some time after that it became known as “Canoelands”. This name was officially gazetted in the N.S.W Government Gazette dated 12.11.1993 and had its boundaries specified and officially designated as a suburb of Sydney in the N.S.W. Government Gazette No.145, dated 01.12.1995.
The first landholding in the Parish of Marramarra, which includes Canoelands, was of 6 acres (24,000 m2) on the northern side of Marramarra Creek below Mount Blake. It was purchased by John Blake for One Pound Ten Shillings Sterling on 6 June 1835. The land had been advertised for sale by auction in an advertisement dated 13 December 1834. (wikipedia)
Places of Interest
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