Queens Park is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Canning. Its postcode is 6107. There is 6,853 persons living in Queens Park. The top 5 ancestries represented in the suburb were English, Chinese, Australian, Indian and Filipino. The majority of persons living in Queens Park were between the ages of 18 and 49.
Pre colonial history
Queens Park, prior to colonial interactions, was originally cared for by the WhadjukNoongar people, the traditional owners for the areas along the Djarlgarro Beeliar or Canning River Prior to the colonial settlement of the area, the Canning River and its associated wetlands provided an important source of food and shelter to the Beeliar and Beeloo Noongar people. The Beeloo considered north of the Canning River, Dyarlgarro, to the hills as part of their ground while the Beeliar mainly traversed the southern section of the river to the sea. At the time of colonial settlement, Midgegooroo and Munday were leaders of these people. The Cannington-Wilson area was called ‘Beeloo’ for many years by local residents.
Post colonial history
The suburb derives its name from the former Queens Park Road Board that was incorporated into the Canning and Belmont Road Boards. Queens Park was originally known as Woodlupine. The name change was brought about following a murder in 1911. Local residents and authorities feared the incident could jeopardise the development of the area. It was agreed that the name would be changed to Queens Park to honour Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII.
The largest single land-holder in Queens Park was Sister Kate'schildren's home which was founded by Sister Kate in 1934 and expanded in 1936 which at the time, A. O. Neville, the government Chief Protector of Aboriginals was the architect of an official scheme which oversaw the care, custody and education of Aboriginal and half-caste children under 16 years in the state. The scheme's purpose was to integrate young and part Aboriginal children into white society by separating them from their families. From an Indigenous perspective, Sister Kate's was a 'home' where children from the Stolen Generations were sent after being literally kidnapped from their parents and family. As the aspiration of Sister Kate was to open a home for half-caste Aboriginal children, for "the most poorest and neglected children", she was authorised to open her home in 1933 by Western Australia's notorious Chief Protector of Aborigines, A. O. Neville, specifically for light skinned Aboriginal children. This was for the explicit aim of destroying the childrens' Aboriginal identity and assimilating them in white society, i.e. to "breed out the black" and eliminate Aboriginal culture in Western Australia. Sister Kate died in 1946, and after her death her so-called 'home' degenerated from a manipulative, evil place which attempted to brainwash kidnapped children into hating their own parents and culture, into a hell on Earth where children were routinely abused both physically and sexually - still with the aim of destroying Aboriginal culture. The process by which the separation was done has since been widely condemned when a report entitled Bringing Them Home was published in 1997 following a federal government inquiry. These people are now known as the Stolen Generation.
Whadjuk Noongar Heritage Sites
DAA have site 3633 located on Sevenoaks street in Queens Park.
Queens Park now incorporates the former suburb of Maniana, once of State Housing development post WW2, which is being pulled down and redeveloped into "Quatro". New developments such as "Skytown" have seen property prices boom as developers buy up old houses for unit development especially around the older parts of Queens Park on Welshpool Road.
Environment
Landscapes
Queens Park has several open spaces and reserves and one regional park. These are: • 1 reserve oval • 1 regional open space • 11 parks
Parks
Cunnington Park
Mary McKillop Park
Queens Park Reserve
Maniana Park
Munja Park
Queens Park Open Space
Reserve
Regional Open Space
Flora
Flooded Gum / Moitch
Grass tree / Balga
Bulrushes/ Yangeti
Swamp Paperbark / Yowarl
Community Groups
Friends of Queens Park
The Friends of Queens Park Bushland is a community group of volunteers who aim is to help the community connect with nature through protecting, regenerating and revegetating the bushland in Queens Park, East Cannington and Welshpool
Lions Club of Canning City,Queens Park Club Branch
In relation to fauna in Queens Park, there are 759 wildlife species currently identified. Easily identified and frequently spotted species are listed below
