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Aug 7, 2024 · The first people to live in the place now known as Christchurch were moa hunters, who probably arrived there as early as AD 1000. The hunters cleared large areas of mataī and tōtara forest by fire and by about 1450 the moa had been killed off.
Story: Italians. One 19th-century promoter of Italian immigration pointed out that New Zealand ‘bears a striking resemblance to … Italy, turned upside down with the foot end facing up’. Links were forged between the two countries when, during the late 1800s, Italians left a life of poverty and hardship to look for ‘la bella fortuna’.
Aug 7, 2024 · They came in four ships: the Charlotte Jane and the Randolph on 16 December 1850 Sir George Seymour the following day, and the Cressy on 27 December. The settlement had been planned well before their arrival however.
First Inhabitants. The first people to live in the place now known as Christchurch were moa hunters, who probably arrived there as early as AD 1000. The hunters cleared large areas of mataī and tōtara forest by fire and by about 1450 all the moa had been killed off.
Maori and European settlers made their mark on Christchurch before a series of devastating earthquakes in the 21st century rocked the city to its core. Moa-hunting tribes were the first people to settle here in around AD1000 according to Maori oral history.
Apr 12, 2019 · On a cool, crisp morning in May 1860, before the settlers of Christchurch stirred for the day, Dr Alfred Charles Barker climbed to the roof of the unfinished Canterbury Provincial Government Buildings and began to take photographs.
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Evidence has been found suggesting that indigenous moa-hunting Waitaha tribes lived in the area around Christchurch as far back as the middle of the 13th century. The moa, a giant flightless bird native to New Zealand (now extinct), was a source of food for the Waitaha.
