The Douglas Shire Historical Society Publications

We need your help! If you can supply any history, stories or pictures click here

Pam has gathered and edited a fantastic oral history which is now housed in the Queensland library. If you would like to add to it or have a listen to some of the shire's most colourful characters contact Pam here

Our photograph collection can be used for research.
You may save or print the images for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact us to request permission.
 

Port Douglas Court House Museum
Wharf Street
Port Douglas 
Queensland  4877
Opening times:
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays 10am – 1pm

We have several publications for sale:

‘Reflecting on the Past’ compiled by Billie Lloyd A pictorial history of the Douglas Shire, published 2000

‘Port’s People, from sleepy fishing village to five-star resort’ compiled by Pam Willis Burden

School rolls of the Port Douglas School, 1879-1962 available on CD or in print

Cemetery listings for Mossman cemetery 1934 – Feb. 2003 

Selected cemetery listings for Port Douglas from 1878  

Booklet on the Battle of the Coral Sea

Booklet on the Ellen Thomson story

Port Douglas Sketchbook

23 Bulletins on a range of subjects are available

DOUGLAS SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Publications for sale as April 2010

BOOKS
Raindrops and Sugar Crops               Pam Willis Burden     $15
Port’s People                                 Pam Willis Burden     $15
Port of Promise                              Glenville Pike           $25
Daintree River Pioneers                   Tricia Fay               $15
Reflecting on the Past                     Billie Lloyd              $10
Barefoot in the Gulf                        Grant Lawrence       $20
Remembering the Douglas Shire         Pam Willis Burden     $27
Northern Outpost                           John Kerr                $20
Mossman Hospital                                                       $3

BOOKLETS AND PAMPHLETS
The Battle of the Coral Sea              Billie Lloyd              $3
Ellen Thomson Murder                      Billie Lloyd              $5
A Walk Back into the History of Port Douglas 1877-1994    $2
Ellen Thomson and John Harrison statements                   $5

DVD
Re-enactment of Ellen Thomson’s commital hearing          $25

POSTCARDS
The Port Douglas Waterfront – a moment in Time            $5
St Mary’s by the Sea                                                 $5
Watercolour of Sugar Wharf & original stone
pitched approach                                                       $1
Port Douglas State School Register (small)                     $20

BULLETINS
1 to 24                                                                    $2
25 Port Douglas Time Line                                           $4
26 Mossman Time Line                                                $4
27 to 31                                                                  $2
28 Mowbray time line                                                 $4
29 Cape Trib time line                                                 $4
30 Social Life in Mossman 1945-46,     Miriam O’Shea        $2
31 Some World War Memories by         Val McCracken      $2

Our photograph collection can be used for research.

Contact the Secretary on 07 4098 4900 or email

Douglas Shire Historical Society Inc.
P.O. Box 948
Port Douglas
Queensland  4877

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