Heritage North Association

The recent Heritage North Association meeting held at Port Douglas was a rather quiet affair with eight historians in attendance representing just four member groups.  The main business of the meeting regarded the promotional brochure project for the northern museums.  Dr Jo Wills has this well in hand and the information produced will be used on a TTNQ web database which is directly linked to tourist networks.  The other project discussed at the meeting concerned the planning for the trainning workshop to be held on Saturday 11 July at the Cairns Historical Society centre.  The facilitator of the workshop will be Dr Janice Wegner of the James Cook University and it will concern learning core skills for history research.  The Association also agreed to support the Australian Sugar Industry Museum in their proposed project; 'World War One and its effect on the sugar cane industry of Australia'.  A letter will be written in support for a funding submission and the Douglas group mentioned an interest in this project.  The next meeting of Heritage North may be held at the new Armour and Artillery Museum (to be confirmed) at the end of August.