North Queensland is renowned for its sugar growing, particularly to the south and north of Townsville. The southern cane growing area of the Burdekin was first planted in 1879, while north of Townsville, in Ingham, sugar was first planted in 1868.
The display take visitors across time from when the first cane was planted and the establishment of sugar plantations, through labour force revolutions, development beyond World Wars, survival from natural predators and how it has become part of the billion dollar world-wide industry that it is today.
Image credit: Pavetto’s farm, near Halifax, just prior to the introduction of cane burning, c1936. Image courtesy Irene Cox.
Museum of Tropical Queensland
70 -102 Flinders Street, Townsville
Queensland 4810
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