Centenary of Albany, Western Australia

In 1927, celebrations were held to commemorate the centenary of the founding of Albany, Western Australia. The 1827 settlement in Albany was the first British settlement in Western Australia,[1] preceding the Swan River Colony by two years.

The Albany community and authorities were in direct conflict with the Western Australian government about the celebration and its proximity to the state centenary of 1929 (commemorating the founding of the state capital Perth), both before the centenary[clarification needed] and after.[2]

The Western Mail celebrated with a special issue.[3] Other regional newspapers also acknowledged Albany's founding and difference from the state centenary, not all necessarily complimentarily. Comments well after both centenaries were being made due to the Perth-based 1929 centenary and its proponents as derogatory of the Albany event.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Centenary of Western Australia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Garden, Donald S. (Donald Stuart); Garden, Donald S (1977), Albany : a panorama of the Sound from 1827, Thomas Nelson (Australia), pp. 315–316, ISBN 978-0-17-005167-5
  3. ^ "Albany Centenary Number". Western Mail. Vol. XLII, no. 2, 139. Western Australia. 27 January 1927. p. 1. Retrieved 10 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Western Australia". The Telegraph. No. 17, 479. Brisbane. 10 December 1928. p. 19. Retrieved 10 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CENTENARY". Prahran Telegraph. Vol. 69, no. 3539. Victoria, Australia. 28 June 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 10 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "The Bunbury Herald". The Bunbury Herald and Blackwood Express. Vol. 35, no. 5151. Western Australia. 7 February 1927. p. 2. Retrieved 10 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.