Agricultural heritage · Agricultural modernism · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Belonging · Camden · Camden Chinese Market Gardeners · Camden District · Camden Rotary Club · Camden Story · Camden Town Farm · Community identity · Country town · Cultural Heritage · Economy · Elderslie · Families · Family history · Farming · Gardening · History · Horticulture · Intensive agriculture · Irrigation · Landscape · Lifestyle · Local History · Local Studies · Lost Camden · Memory · Modernism · Nepean River · Plants · Ruralism · Sense of place · Small town · Social History · Stories · Storytelling

History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners: Resilience, Innovation, and Struggles

The presentation at Camden Rotary Club details the significant contributions and challenges faced by Chinese market gardeners in Camden. It sheds light on their resilience, innovation, discrimination, and impact on the local economy. The book "A History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners 1899-1993" emphasizes their agency, making an important contribution to local history and the literature of the Chinese diaspora in Australia.

1920s · Anzac · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Biography · Camden · Camden Cottage · Camden Story · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Dairying · Dr West · Economy · Elderslie · Families · Family history · Farming · First World War · Gardening · Genealogy · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · History of a house · House history · Interwar · Landscape · Living History · Local History · Local newspapers · Local Studies · Memory · Military history · Myths · Place making · Placemaking · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Social History · Storytelling · Voluntary Workers Association · War · War at home · welfare · World War One

The Patterson family of Elderslie, the value of family histories

The story of the Patterson family of Elderslie NSW illustrates the value and importance of family history.