Canoeing on the River Yarra at Melbourne was an important and widespread recreational pursuit for Melbournians, especially in the first half of the twentieth century. The Victorian Canoe Club was formed in 1912 at a meeting in Melbourne and its first committee elected in the same year. Records indicate that the Club continued into at least the 1950s .The album has historic and social significance as a record of recreational activities in the early years of the twentieth century.Part of an unbound old album, containing photographs of members of the Victorian Canoe Club undertaking a series of trips to the lower and upper Yarra as well as to regional Victoria. All but one of the photographs in the album were labelled by the owner in white ink. The individual photographs in this album are also posted on Victorian Collections separately, typically under the label of the photo in the album. E.g "Salvaging wrecked canoe". Descriptive titles in the album include (sometimes referring to two photos): Xmas 1930, Leaving Studley Park / Breakfast on wharf after camping on lower Yarra / repacking / Old Cerberus / Shooting the rapids, Warrandyte / [Untitled] / Pound Bend tunnel (2) / Old mine / Salvaging wrecked canoe / Mallacoota trip / Gippsland LakesNil apart from individual photo labelsvictorian canoe club, river yarra, kew, warrandyte, upper yarra, lower yarra, cerberus, mallacoota, recreation -- canoeing

Victorian Branch - Returned Sailors Soldiers and Airmans Imperial League of Australia 1948

Victorian Railways Parcels stamp, paper, red and white 6 pence, Sandford.

Badge of Victorian Mounted Rifles mounted on varnished wood shield shaped boardplaque, victorian mounted rifles

This copy of the Planning and Environment Act was used by Creswick Engineer Brian SchreenanGreen soft covered book. A first edition Victorian Planning and Environment Act.plannning, environment, town planning, planning and environment act, victorian act of parliament, acts 1987 no. 45, brian schreenan

This copy of the Planning and Environment Act was used by Creswick Engineer Brian SchreenanGreen soft covered book. A first edition Victorian Planning and Environment Act.brian schreenan, william oswarl skeat, bernard john dangerfield, engineering, water engineering

White Victorian Government document relating to teh Mining Board for the Ballarat district.ballarat mining board, petition, isaac wheeldon, mining regulations