West Coast Piners
West Coast Piners were groups of men who worked on the
Huon pine
.
In most cases they used
Sarah Island convict era (1821–33, 1846–47) and the period from the 1890s to the 1940s.[1]
Most of their activities were focused on the rivers (and their tributaries) that flow into
King River and the Gordon River[2]
The smaller rivers flowing into Macquarie Harbour on the eastern side are Pine Cove Creek, the Braddon River, the Clark River, and the Bird River. Also Birch's Inlet
was an area where pine was transported from.
They were celebrated by an annual event at Strahan, known as the Piners' Festival, which was conducted for a few years.[3]
Notes
- ISBN 0-9577917-0-4
- ISBN 0-86436-001-0
- ^ http://pandora.nla.gov.au/parchive/2001/S2001-Apr-4/www.federation100.tas.gov.au/calendar.html March 2001 - as part of the Centenary of Federation festivities in Tasmania