Gerard Community Council
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The Gerard Community Council is a small,
tourists
.
History
The area was established when the
grape vines.[3]
Pre-fabricated huts were obtained from an old Army camp and other fittings from a Woodcutters’ Camp at Loveday. The Gerard Mission school was opened in 1946, after the school at Swan Reach had closed the previous December.
As well as transferring Aboriginal people from Swan Reach, some were brought to Gerard from
cows
.
By 1946 the
Aboriginal Lands Trust
, and operated under its own full council.
In the late 1980s the Gerard community revived traditional crafts using the work of
Edward Eyre and others as reference.[1]
References
- ^ a b Infrastructure SA, Aboriginal Communities (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2009, retrieved 5 June 2007
- ^ "Murray Mallee SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^ State Library of SA, Aboriginal Missions, retrieved 5 June 2007