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A COMMUNITY-BASED campaign to honour the memory of the Queenslander who gave ANZAC Day to the world has culminated in the renaming of a bridge at Toowong. The Queensland Transport and Main Roads Department (DTMR) rebadged the Toowong Cycle and Pedestrian Overpass to “Canon Garland Overpass” a year after an
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Honouring a legend “Coo-ee!” Would you like to see the Queenslander who gave Anzac Day to the world prominently honoured in Brisbane’s western suburbs this Centenary of Armistice year? Click the link below to open the Queensland Parliament E-Petition and join the grassroots campaign to make this proposed tribute
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OUR GRIFFITH AUSTRALIADAY AWARD WINNER AT a well attended public ceremony staged this afternoon at Souths Leagues Club, West End, Canon Garland Memorial Society Incorporated Vice-President, Ross Hielscher, was presented with a Griffith Australia Day Award by the Federal Member for Griffith, Ms Terri Butler MP. Here is what the
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The Australia Day Achievement Awardcitation for Constantine (Con) Drozdovskii Born to a Russian father and Greek mother, Con moved to Brisbane as a child and has now become a spokesperson for the Ethnic Russian Community. Proud of his Russian Orthodox Christian faith, over the past 50 years Con has become
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A remembrance and a celebration – towards a review By CON DROZDOVSKII of Canon Garland Memorial Society Incorporated IF you missed last night’s outdoor concert at Kangaroo Point Cliffs Park – preferring instead to sit in front of the idiot box – then you missed something truly beautiful and unique. Imagine, if
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ATTENTION NEWSROOMS: Council continues to honour ANZAC heroes Lord Mayor Graham Quirk will today unveil two major commemorative projects that honour Australia’s fallen war heroes ahead of Remembrance Day. A new lawn at Toowong Cemetery will be opened and officially named after the ‘architect of ANZAC Day’, Canon David
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Council continues to honour ANZAC heroes ahead of Remembrance Day BRISBANE City Council will continue to commemorate the fallen heroes of World War I ahead of Remembrance Day with two major commemorative projects unveiled today. Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has today opened a new lawn at Toowong Cemetery to honour
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MEDIA RELEASE: 26 MAY 2015 ABOVE: The way ANZAC Day was represented to the readers of Brisbane newspaper, “National Leader”. This art filled the 20 April 1917 edition's front page. The inscription reads: ‘Oh, sweet and seemly so to die, indeed, In the high flush of youth and
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