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The Junior Canberra Puzzle Book |
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Hi! I hope you're enjoying The Junior Canberra Puzzle Book, and that you find some more interesting information and links here. This page has my Puzzle Maker's Notes, which give you an insight into how I wrote some of the puzzles, as well as extra information, a few hints help you solve them, or where to find out more about the topics. If you want to make the book more challenging, you might like to temporarily tape the edges of the two Answers pages together (don't use glue otherwise you'll have trouble opening them up again!). Then you can cut the tape apart later on. There is also an extensive Resources page, with a huge list of web sites to check out, places to visit, and books to read. For a list of places that sell The Junior Canberra Puzzle Book, or to order your copy directly from me, go to the Puzzles page. Denise Puzzle Maker's Notes
Page 2 - Aboriginal Find-a-Word This puzzle has been given the thumbs up by the ACT Heritage Unit's Aboriginal officer. It is surprising to learn that the native crane, or Brolga, used to live in the region around Canberra. Bogong Moths were a major food source for local Aboriginal tribes, who walked to the Brindabella mountain range to feast on them each spring and summer. Page 3 - Pioneer Kids Odd-One-Out St John's Schoolhouse Museum is a great place to visit, if you can. It is next to St John's Church, off Constitution Avenue, Reid. There you can see the school rooms, slates, books, and other things from pioneering days. The schoolroom is quite small, and was very cramped. In winter it was freezing cold, and baking hot in summer. Many pioneer families needed their children to work on their farms, so they didn't always send them to school. School holidays were often held during busy times, such as harvesting, as practically no kids would show up to class anyway! A good book to read if you'd like to discover more about St John's Schoolhouse is Canberra's First Schoolhouse by Hope Hewitt. Page 4 - Old Homesteads Maze You can visit all three of these old homes : Page 5 - Pioneer Properties The properties and stations mentioned in this puzzle are :
Page 6 - Code - A New City There is more information about the planning of Canberra and the competition at this web site : An Ideal City - The 1912 Competition to Design Canberra. The men on this page are just two of the team of surveyors who mapped the ACT, and prepared the Griffin Plan to be built. The original photo was taken in 1909. Charles Scrivener is sitting on the left. He was the senior surveyor who recommended the site for the National Capital in 1909; he was also a judge for the competition for the design of Canberra. There is a street named after him in O'Connor. Scrivener Dam across the Molonglo River, making Lake Burley Griffin, is also named after him. Percy Sheaffe is on the right. He started the survey of the Australian Capital Territory boundary and he played an important part in the early sub-divisions of, and adjustments to, the Griffin Plan of Canberra. There is a street named after him in the suburb of Holder. Page 7 - Griffin Plan Maze This maze took several days to draw and design. I started by tracing a copy of the revised city plan submitted by the Griffins in 1913. Then I had to figure out the maze path, and make the maze by adding lots of 'road blocks'. This 1913 plan was drawn by Walter Burley Griffin after he'd actually visited the site for Canberra - remember that almost all of the designers who entered the competition to design Australia's new capital city had never visited Australia, and only had maps to work from. Did you notice the bridge across the Lake to the Hospital? There is talk of building this bridge in Canberra soon, to revise parts of Griffin's plan - it would probably be a foot-bridge, however, and not for cars as originally planned. It would link the National Museum of Australia with the lake foreshores near the Albert Hall. Page 8 - Parliament House Dot-to-Dot This dot-to-dot took a long time to draw and design. It is based on this photograph from the ACT Heritage Library, taken by the well-known Canberra photographer W. J. Mildenhall. Page 9 - Capital Construction Muddle Make sure you don't just join all the dots together for this puzzle - you'll end up with a big mess! You need to answer each of the 5 questions, and then join the dots that correspond to the answers. Just in case it got messed up, here's a clean copy of the puzzle for you. Migrants have played a big part in the growth of Canberra. Once construction started on Canberra in the 1920s, many workers from Italy, Greece, Estonia, Poland, and China moved here. These early immigrants later helped the thousands of immigrants who came to Australia after World War II. In the 1950s many more people moved up to Canberra, both to build the city, and to work as public servants in the new seat of government. Australians came from every state, as well as Italians, Germans, French, British, New Zealanders and more. This online exhibition tells the story of the Poles in Canberra : Poles-A-Part Page 10 - Picture Acrostic - Naming the Capital There were many silly names suggested for our new national capital, such as Blueducks, Eucalypta, Myola, Economy, Gonebroke, Swindleville, and Cooeeoommoo! Lady Denman, the wife of the Governor-General of Australia, announced the name Canberra on 12 March 1913 at a ceremony on Capital Hill. Canberra was the name of this area since the early days of European settlement, and is thought to be of Aboriginal origin meaning 'meeting place'. Page 11 - Spot-the-Difference - Canberra Community Hospital The original photo I used as reference for this puzzle is from the National Archives of Australia collection. If you want to find the photo, do a search on "Canberra Community Hospital" via the Archives link. It is Item # A3560, 7281. The car is a Baby Austin 7 tourer car, and Black Mountain is in the background. Page 12 - Railways Maze You can find out a lot more about the history of the railway in Canberra at the Australian Railway Historical Society (ACT Division). Page 13 - 1930s Find-a-Word A good book to read if you want to know more about life in early Canberra is Over My Shoulder - Growing up with Canberra from the 1930s by Meryl Hunter. This web site is also good to visit : Home Sweet Home? Living in Canberra in the 1920s and 1930s Page 14 - Spot-the-Difference - Cooleman Property The reference photo used for this puzzle was very special - it had only just been given to the ACT Heritage Library, and was part of a large collection of photos from the Cooleman property, which roughly covered all of the southern side of Weston Creek, including Stirling, Chapman, Rivett, Fisher, and Waramanga, as well as Mount Taylor. Page 15 - A Very Silly Story - Life in 1935 What can I say? This is a very silly story indeed! The bare bones of the story are correct though - the iceman did come twice a week with blocks of ice to keep the food cold, and the baker had a wagon pulled by a horse. Most families grew their own fruit and vegies, and the kitchen oven and stove were run by wood fire. Imagine how hot that would have been in summer! This web site tells the story in pictures : Home Sweet Home? Living in Canberra in the 1920s and 1930s Page 16 - Code - War Time! Both World Wars had a big effect on Canberra - largely by stopping construction! The money for building the capital was needed for the war effort, so most of the building sites just stopped. During WWI the only building that continued was the Kingston Powerhouse, and a few roads. The Australian War Memorial, the Canberra Hospital and the American Embassy were the main buildings to be finished during WWII. The war stopped the competition to design a permanent Parliament House, a competition delayed until 1979. That's one of the reasons we ended up with a 'temporary' Parliament House for so long. If you want to read more about Canberra during war time, look for Canberra - a History of Australia's Capital by Davies, Hoffman, and Price (ACT Ministry for Health, Education and the Arts, 1990, ISBN 1 86331 0495). You might also like to find out how we made optical munitions (binoculars, gun sights, telescopes and so on) here in Canberra during WWII, up at Mt Stromlo Observatory. Calthorpe's House has an air raid shelter. In 2003 the ABC show Stateline interviewed Dawn Waterhouse, who used to live there. Her recollections are fascinating to read. Page 17 - War Memorial Dot-to-Dot The War Memorial is an important place to visit for anyone. You can find out more about the origins of the War Memorial too. Page 18 - Spot-the-Difference - Australian American Memorial There's more information about the Memorial at the USA Embassy's web site and and National Capital Authority's web site. There is some confusion on the various web sites about whether the Memorial has murals on its base. The National Capital Authority says "Two murals feature at the base, one relating the story of American combat in the Pacific and the other a profile map of the United States in copper." But the Australian Heritage Database says "The design for the memorial included two murals at the base, one pictorially relating the story of US combat in the Pacific and the other a profile map of the US in copper. These were omitted due to lack of funds." Here's a challenge for you - be a history detective, go to the Memorial at the end of Kings Avenue in Russell, check out The Eagle's base and let me know if the murals are there or not - I'll put your names and results up here! Page 19 - A Canberra Crossword You should be able to answer most of the questions in this crossword by looking through the book. Don't forget to look closely at the drawings too! Page 20 - Our Bird and Flower - Gridded Drawing & Colouring-In The Gang-Gang Cockatoo was named as the faunal emblem for the ACT on 27 February 1997. Canberra is the only city in Australia where these cockatoos live, which makes it a good choice! On 26 May 1982 it was announced that the floral emblem for the ACT would be the Royal Bluebell. The bluebells that you see growing beside the roads in Canberra are generally not the Royal Bluebell, which grows in the mountains. The Royal Bluebell is a protected plant, so you must not pick it. It's probably safest not to pick any bluebells you see - even though they may not be the Royal Bluebell, it's hard to be sure! Page 21 - Picture Acrostic - Dammed River Did you know that the committee that was in charge of turning Walter Burley Griffin's plan into a real city actually deleted the lake from the city plans? There were many changes to his plan that Griffin didn't agree with, and he left in disgust in 1920. Thankfully in later years the National Capital Developement Commission put the lake back in, with the support of Prime Minister Menzies. Lake Burley Griffin started to fill after Scrivener Dam was finished in September 1963. It took around a year to fill, and Menzies declared it open in Octover 1964. Page 22 - Wrong Way Road Signs All of these national monuments are in the centre of Canberra, either in the Parliamentary Triangle, or near the Australian National University. Their web sites are:
Page 23 - Design a Coin! The Royal Australian Mint is a great fun place to visit! You can see the machines actually making different coins, and transporting them through the Mint in metal crates. There are also lots of historical displays, showing what coins used to be like, and how they were made. Page 24 - Code - Looking After Ourselves I hope the code isn't too hard for you - it's a simple letter shift, and there are plenty of clues to help you out. You can find out more about Rosemary Follett here. Women in the Making of Canberra is another good online exhibition. Page 25 - Spot-the-Difference - Mobile Library The photo I used to make this puzzle is here at the ACT Heritage Library I took some of the people out of the picture to make it easier to see the back of the truck. Page 26 - Around Town Find-a-Word The words to search for in this puzzle are just the bold words. The extra words are just there to give you the full names of the places around Canberra. When you've found the hidden word, see if you can find a picture of the property homestead in the book - it's there! Page 27 - The ACT Flag Colouring-In You can see more about the ACT Flag at the Chief Minister's Flags and Emblems web page. There are a lot of rules on how our flag can be used, and how to display and handle it. For example, you must never fly the flag upside down. Page 28 - Suburb Maze You can get some help with this puzzle at the ACTPLA Street Name Search web site - but before you click on the link, do the maze first. Here's the full list of suburb themes for all current Canberra suburbs : GUNGAHLIN(* these suburbs have yet to be constructed)
BELCONNEN
CENTRAL CANBERRA
WODEN
WESTON CREEK
TUGGERANONG
Page 29 - Picture Acrostic - Highest Mountain You can find out more about the mountains around Canberra at these web sites:
Phew - we made it to the end! Well done :) |
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Last Modified: 18 December 2008 |
