Acknowledgements

A project such as this cannot be completed without the assistance of many people, and council would like to specifically acknowledge the support of the Cairns Historical Society and Kay Earl.

Other sources of information included:

A Pictorial History of the Mulgrave Shire 1880-1980, Published by G.K. Bolton, Cairns, 1980. Published for the Mulgrave Shire Council.

Alley, Jan. Recollections and Recipes of Riverstone.

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology, www.bom.gov.au

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Cairns Historical Society, www.cairnsmuseum.org.au

Certain Friends in Uncertain Times, 1995. Published by the Machans Beach Progress Association.

Jeremy Hodes. 1998. Far North Queensland Place and Street Names: Their origins and meanings.

Kay Earl - For information on Edmonton, Mt Peter Mine, Thomas Swallow, The Cane industry and Hambeldon-Blackfellow Creek School. kayearl@cairnsweddings.com.au

Moments in Time Collection, The Cairns Post, 2002.

Murphy J. 1998. Cairns and District: Our Heritage in focus. State Library of Queensland Foundation.

Walters, Aubrey John. 2005. Behind the Name - About the origin of some towns and places in the Cairns Region.