Treasure
Memorial, Moorina Cemetery
Date Published
: Memorials
: memorials, cemetery sections, Chinese, Mining (Tin)
: Northeast Tasmania
: Moorina
: 1906
: memorials, cemetery sections, Chinese, Mining (Tin)
: Northeast Tasmania
: Moorina
: 1906
General memorial to Chinese people buried in Moorina Cemetery.
Moorina cemetery memorial
Image Courtesy of: CAHS
By the early 20th century the tin mining villages such as Moorina had been depopulated but their cemeteries remained. The Chinese community based in Launceston erected this memorial to those buried there and presumably also conducted regular ceremonies during the annual Ching Ming festival.
An interesting feature of the memorial is that it refers to Imperial China as "Da Qing Guo" or Land of the Great Qing - the then ruling Manchu dynasty.
Treasure
Chinese Text