Corporate Body

Victorian Department of Crown Lands and Survey (1857 - 1983)

Colony and State of Victoria

From: 1857
Victoria, Australia
To: 1983
Functions: Advisory or regulatory body and Surveying or Mapping
Reference No: VA 538
Legal Status: Public Record Office Victoria, Registered Agency

Summary

The Department of Crown Lands and Survey was originally established in 1857 as part of the Board of Land and Works. In 1964 it ceased to be controlled by the Board. The Department functioned for almost twenty more years before being combined with other Ministries to form the Department of Conservation, Forests and Land.

Timeline

Superior

State of Victoria (1901 - )
Date: 1901 - 1939

Related People

Archer, William Henry (1825 - 1909)
Secretary of the Department 1874 - 1878
Hodgkinson, Clement (1818 - 1893)
Surveyor-General 1857 - 1858; Assistant Commissioner 1861 - 1874; Inspector General of Metropolitan Parks and Reserves 1873 - 1874
Krausé, Ferdinand Moritz (1841 - 1918)
Surveyor, Geological Survey of Victoria, part of the Victorian Department of Crown Lands and Survey 1870 - 1880c.
Ligar, Charles Whybrow (1811 - 1881)
Surveyor General 1858 - 1869
Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824 - 1902)
Government Geologist 1860 - 1869

Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

Department of Crown Lands and Survey - Receipts, 1862, MS 8810; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

Department of Crown Lands and Survey - Records, 1884 - 1908, 69/7; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Department of Crown Lands and Survey - Records, 1884 - 1908, 69/16; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

Public Record Office of Victoria, '3.6.2 Land Branch c.1837-1855 Department of Crown Lands 1855-1857 Board of Land and Works 1857-1859 [VA 744] Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Board of Land and Works 1859-1964 Department of Crown Lands and Survey 1964-1983' in List of Holdings 1985: Public Record Office (1985). Details

Resources

Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-464738. Details

Resource Sections

'VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey 1857-1983', in Public Record Office Victoria online catalogue, Public Record Office Victoria, 2002, https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/VA538. Details

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