Person

Coane, John Montgomery (1848 - 1923)

Born
1848
Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland
Died
28 December 1923
North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Surveyor and Civil engineer

Summary

John Coane studied engineering in Dublin before moving to Australia in c.1867. He worked in Queensland's mining districts for several years then moved to Victoria where he joined the Victorian Education Department (1873). Coane spent the next five years or so teaching at various schools around country Victoria. In 1879 he became an authorized surveyor and was appointed to the country town of Benalla. John Coane later established a consulting company in partnership with G. H. Grant. This soon became one of the countries peek consulting firms and they carried out general surveying and civil, hydraulic and mining engineering projects throughout country Victoria and in the cities.

He wrote the major book "Australasian Roads - a handbook on construction, maintenance, and administration", of which five editions were published between 1908 and 1937.

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Chronology

- 1902
Career event - Gave evidence to the "Interstate Royal Commission on the River Murray"
c. 1867
Life event - Migrated to Australia (Queensland)
c. 1871
Life event - Moved to Victoria
1873 - 1874
Career position - Teacher at Napoleon, Victoria
1 January 1875 - 31 December 1878
Career position - Teacher at Samaria, Victoria
1879
Career position - Surveyor in Benalla, Victoria
1879
Career position - Consulting Engineers practice established with George Hudson Grant
c. 1880
Career position - Extensive land surveys of Yea and Seymour areas
1890 - 1891
Career position - President, Victorian Institute of Surveyors
1897
Career event - Member, Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers
1899 - 1921
Career position - Consulting Engineer to the City of Brighton
1905 - 1906
Career position - President, Victorian Institute of Surveyors
1905 - 1917
Career position - Chairman, Sludge Abatement Board (Mines Department)
1906 - 1914
Career position - Representative on the Land Surveyors' Board
1908
Career event - Published first edition of book "Australasian roads ..."
1919
Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

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Published resources

Books

  • Coane, John Montgomery; Coane, Henry Edward; Coane, John Mongomery, Jun., Australasian roads : a treatise, practical and scientific, on the location, design, construction and maintenance of roads and pavements (Melbourne: George Robertson, 1908), 334 pp. Details
  • Cumming, D. A., Some Public Works Engineers in Victoria in the Nineteenth Century (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 1985), 59 pp. p.7. Details

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Journal Articles

  • 'Memoirs', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 5 (1924), 395-408, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.862459635586528. 'John Montgomery Coane', p.398. Details
  • 'Civil engineer', 'International Roads Congress', Commonwealth Engineer, 1 (2) (1913), 54-55. Details
  • Coane, J. M., 'Notes on Australian Roads', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 5 (1900-1909), 53-67. Details
  • Coane, J. M., 'The existing Health Act in its relation to the drainage of New Towns', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 3 (1885-1891), 108-109. Details
  • Coane, J. M., 'Road alignment in Victoria', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 3 (1885-1891), 105-107. Details
  • Coane, J. M., 'Sanitary sub-division of land', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 3 (1885-1891), 85-87. Details
  • Coane, J. M., 'The amended Transfer of Land Statute', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 3 (1885-1891), 38-41. Details
  • Coane, J. M., 'On the use of the Clinometer in steep and rough rangy country, and Appendix', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 2 (1880-1884), 81-84. Details

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Resources

See also

  • Smith, James, ed., The Cyclopedia of Victoria: an historical and commercial review: descriptive and biographical, facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress (Melbourne: Cyclopedia Co, 1903-1905), vol.1: 618 pp, vol.2: 563 pp, vol.3: 643 pp. 'John Montgomery Coane' Vol.1 p.387. Details

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