Canterbury
(Place)
Subject of Texts
Mentioned in
- 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- 21 Battalion
- 22 Battalion
- 26 Battalion
- 28 (Maori) Battalion
- 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
- 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
- Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- Chaplains
- Crete
- Divisional Signals
- Episodes & Studies Volume 2
- Fulbright in New Zealand
- Geological and other Reports
- Wellington, October 24, 1861
- Wellington, November 30th, 1861
- Manawatu, October 21, 1862
- Wellington, February 11, 1863
- Wellington, February 14th, 1863
- I. — Report on the Wairarapa and East Coast
- II. — Report on Mr. R. Brough Smyth's “Notes on the Specimens of Rocks Collected in the Province of Wellington.”
- Wellington, January 1, 1864
- “Copy of Letter of Rev. W. B. Clarke
- Terraces and Raised Beaches
- History and traditions of the Maoris of the West Coast, North Island of New Zealand, prior to 1840
- History of New Zealand. Vol. III.
- Kōtare 2004, Volume Five, Number One
- Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 16 June 1927
- Lore and history of the South Island Maori
- Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
- Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
- Nelson Historical Society Journal, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2009
- New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
- Maps and Diagrams
- Tables
- 2 — The Setting of the Pyre
- 4 — Taranaki and the Stratford Fire Storm
- 8 — The South Island
- The virgin forest harvest, 1885
- Case study—Canterbury and Little River
- Town, country and bush
- Runholders and feldon yeomen
- Feldon yeoman districts
- Runholder districts
- Town, country and bush
- Nelson (1886 population 7,315)
- The work of the railways
- The roadless north and the kauri timber trade
- The village and the globe?
- The ‘Our Own Correspondents’
- The weeklies and their agricultural pages
- [section]
- South Taranaki 1881–86: farming for what?
- Subject Index
- 1 The Interprovincial Timber Trade, 1885
- 11 Rush
- 15 Nerves
- F Books and pamphlets
- G Articles
- New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
- New Zealand Plants and their Story
- Nga kōrero a Reweti Kohere Mā
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
- Sport 11: Spring 1993
- Sport 13 Spring 1994
- Sport 3: Spring 1989
- Sport 5: Spring 1990
- Sport 8: Autumn 1992
- Te Whare e kiia ana te Ingoa ko Te Mahi Tamariki, Otakou, Hune 10th, 1875.
- The Adventures of Kimble Bent
- The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
- Illustrations and Maps
- 3 Agents and Emigrants, 1871–73
- 4 The Flood Tide of 1874
- 5 Colony and Hearthland, 1874–80
- 6 Oxfordshire and Wychwood Forest
- 9 Kent
- 10 Cornwall and Devon
- 7 Lincolnshire and the Northern Wolds
- 11 The Transformation of the Immigrant
- 12 New Zealand — Feldon
- 13 New Zealand — Arden
- 14 Afterwards
- 15 The Quality of the Immigrants
- Subject Index
- 2 The Village World and the Labourers' Revolt
- 15 The Quality of the Immigrants
- The Founders of Canterbury
- The Home Front Volume I
- The Home Front Volume II
- The Maori As He Was : A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
- The Past and Present Of New Zealand With Its Prospects for the Future
- To Greece
- War Economy
- Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows
Image Gallery
.jpg "Fig. 18.—Gully passing through a Mountain-beech Forest (Nothofagus cliffortioides). Mount Torlesse, Canterbury. — [Photo, L. Cockayne")
.jpg "Fig. 19.—The Fern Polystichum vestitum at outskirts of a Mountain-beech Forest. Fronds 3 ft. in length. Base of Big Ben, Canterbury. — [Photo, L. Cockayne")
.jpg "Fig. 27.—The Shore-convolvulus (Calystegia Soldanella), growing on dune, New Brighton, Canterbury. — [Photo, A. H. Cockayne")
![Fig. 31.—The Sand-coprosma (Coprosma acerosa) building a Temporary Dunc. Coast of Canterbury. — Lands Department.] [Photo, L. Cockayne](/etexts/CocNewZ/CocNewZ072a(h280).jpg "Fig. 31.—The Sand-coprosma (Coprosma acerosa) building a Temporary Dunc. Coast of Canterbury. — Lands Department.] [Photo, L. Cockayne")
.jpg "Fig. 38.—Forest (Nothofagus cliffortioides) giving place to Grass-land, the effect of wind. Near Source of River Poulter, Canterbury. — [Photo, L. Cockayne")
.jpg "Fig. 46.—The Penwiper Plant (Notothlaspi rosulatum), growing on shingle-slip of a river-terrace. Castle Hill, Canterbury. — [Photo, L. Cockayne")
.jpg "Fig. 47.—The Vegetable-sheep (Raoulia eximia), a rather small example, growing on rock rising from shingle-slip. Mount Torlesse, Canterbury — [Photo, L. Cockayne")
![Fig. 54.— Interior of Rata Forest of the Auckland Islands. — Phill. Inst. of Canterbury.] [Photo, S. Page](/etexts/CocNewZ/CocNewZ115a(h280).jpg "Fig. 54.— Interior of Rata Forest of the Auckland Islands. — Phill. Inst. of Canterbury.] [Photo, S. Page")
![Fig. 55.— Penguins destroying Tussock Meadow. Low forest of Olearia Lyallii in the background, and tussocks. The Snares. — Phil. Inst. of Canterbury.] [Photo, L. Cockyane](/etexts/CocNewZ/CocNewZ119a(h280).jpg "Fig. 55.— Penguins destroying Tussock Meadow. Low forest of Olearia Lyallii in the background, and tussocks. The Snares. — Phil. Inst. of Canterbury.] [Photo, L. Cockyane")
.jpg "Fig. 7.—Base of Kahikatea (Podocarpus dacrydioides), showing the rounded buttresses. Ancient forest of Canterbury Plain, Riccarton. — [Photo, L. Cockayne")
.jpg "Figure 8.1 Canterbury, main grass and bush fires, summer 1885–86")
.jpg "high-country sheep farming — A typical scene at mustering time on a Canterbury station")
.jpg "THE SIREN CELIA")
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For several reasons, including lack of resource and inherent ambiguity, not all names in the NZETC are marked-up. This means that finding all references to a topic often involves searching. Search for Canterbury as: "Canterbury". Additional references are often found by searching for just the main name of the topic (the surname in the case of people).
Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Canterbury":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.