Introduction
From 1833 to current day the population of the Falkland Islands has always been culturally diverse. From intermarriage and interaction between the different nationalities the unique culture of the Islands gradually evolved and is reflected today in activities, traditions, place names and building styles.
One of the scenes from Zachariah Fee
Drama
Theatrical productions have long been enjoyed in the Falkland Islands and played a large part in bringing the community together. On 18 September 1867 Governor Robinson wrote to Frederick Cobb, manager of the Falkland Islands Company Ltd ‘…I shall have great pleasure in informing the Theatrical Committee of Management that the Directors of the Falkland Islands Company kindly wish the freight of the Scenery to be considered as an additional subscription towards the Funds of the Theatrical Society.’ [D13]
Government Files
CUL-GEN-1-2. Childrens Christmas Party 1927.pdf7.36 MB
CUL-GEN-1-3. Further performance of His Excellencys play entitled The Troubles of Santa Claus.pdf710.31 KB
CUL-GEN-1-4. The Downfall of Zachariah Fee.pdf663.38 KB
CUL-GEN-1-5. Zachariah Fee Revue to be held in honour of the visit of HMS Dragon.pdf2.34 MB
Reports
R-CUL-DRA-1-3. The Stanley Palace of Varieties presents No Not Another Show - 1980s.pdf300.17 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-8. The Stanley Dramatic Society presents Aladdin in the Town Hall Stanley - 1960s.pdf151.2 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-13. Dick Whittington and His Cat 11 12 and 13 April 1991.pdf1.83 MB
R-CUL-DRA-1-15. FIODA presents Boeing Boeing Stanley Town Hall 17-19 October 1991.pdf951.73 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-20. FIODA presents Paint Your Wagon Stanley Town Hall November 14 15 16 1996.pdf372.76 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-22. FIODA presents Wind in the Willows Stanley Town Hall 11th 12th 13th May 2000.pdf1.41 MB
R-CUL-DRA-1-25. FIODA presents Cinderella May 4 5 and 6.pdf671.78 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-26. FIODA presents Cinderella May 4 5 and 6.pdf523.08 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-27. FIODA proudly presents The Annual Farmers Week Variety Show. July 2002.pdf105.82 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-29. FIODA Presents Robin of Stanley. April 2008.pdf303.68 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-30. FIODA Presents Farmers Week 2008 Variety Show.pdf245.57 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-31. IJS Presents Robin Hood 2008.pdf380.74 KB
R-CUL-DRA-1-32. FIODA presents panic stations a farce by Derek Benfield. March 2009.pdf250.78 KB
Dancing
CUL-GEN-1-6. Installation of loudspeakers for the broadcasting of dance music in the town hall.pdf331.26 KB
CUL-GEN-1-7. Charges for music in town hall broadcast from central room.pdf210.15 KB
CUL-GEN-1-8. Public dances in Stanley.pdf2.6 MB
CUL-GEN-1-24. Formation of a society to be known as The Stanley Folk Dancing Society.pdf317.45 KB
CUL-GEN-1-25. Falkland Islands Folk Dancing Society Minutes.pdf3.75 MB
CUL-GEN-1-26. Falkland Islands Folk Dancing Society - Correspondence etc.pdf4.2 MB
CUL-GEN-1-27. Falkland Islands Folk Dancing Society 1954.pdf2.41 MB
CUL-GEN-1-28. Falkland Islands Folk Dancing Society Receipt Book.pdf172.87 KB
Horticulture
In January 1765 Captain John Byron took possession of the Islands in the name of King George III. He fixed on Port Egmont as the most suitable site for a settlement and recorded in his journal ‘…The Surgeon of the Tamar mad [sic] a pretty little Garden near the Watering Place which we surrounded with a Fence of Turf, for the Benefit of those that may come next’. A year later Captain John Macbride arrived with the Jason, Carcass and Experiment and ordered that the men from each ship should lay out gardens.
The outlines of these gardens are still identifiable today.
Government Files
CUL-GEN-1-10. Stanley Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition 1923.pdf1.18 MB
CUL-GEN-1-11. C C Morley. Sends sample seeds for planting.pdf585.62 KB
CUL-GEN-1-12. Stanley Flower Show and Industrial Exhbition 1924.pdf287.48 KB
CUL-GEN-1-13. Possibility of market for Falkland Islands garden produce in Montevideo.pdf451.18 KB
CUL-GEN-1-15. Agricultural Adviser. Proposed construction of decorative gardens etc.pdf1.4 MB
CUL-GEN-1-16. Possibility of exporting vegetables etc to the Uruguay.pdf327.69 KB
CUL-GEN-1-17. Gardens. Allotment gardens for vegetables.pdf756.09 KB
Reports
R-CUL-GAR-1-4. Get Ready Horticultural Show.pdf243.26 KB
Public Holidays
As well as the usual holidays observed such as Good Friday and Christmas Day the Falkland Islands observes its own unique holidays:
- Liberation Day – 14th June to commemorate the liberation of the Falkland Islands by British Forces.
- Peat Cutting Monday – the first Monday in October as traditionally families would go and cut their peat fuel for the year.
- Battle Day –8th December in commemoration of the defeat of the German fleet off Stanley.
- Sports Day –27th The Christmas Sports have been held over two days, on Boxing day and the following day, since 1910.
CUL-PUB-1-1. Public holidays 1919.pdf483.27 KB
CUL-PUB-1-3. Public holidays 1920.pdf686.99 KB
CUL-PUB-1-4. Observance of anniversary of signing of Armistice 11 November 1920.pdf154.45 KB
CUL-PUB-1-5. Public holidays 1921.pdf392.66 KB
CUL-PUB-1-6. Empire Day. Procedure in future with reference to celebrations in HM Navy.pdf108.23 KB
CUL-PUB-1-7. Armistice. Observance of anniversary of 11 November 1921.pdf911.85 KB
CUL-PUB-1-8. Public holidays 1922.pdf432.25 KB
CUL-PUB-1-9. Armistice Day. Observance of anniversary of 11 November 1922.pdf547.68 KB
CUL-PUB-1-10. Public holidays 1923.pdf590.53 KB
CUL-PUB-1-11. Empire Day messages to children in elementary schools of the Empire.pdf517.85 KB
CUL-PUB-1-12. Armistice Day. Observance of anniversary of 11 November 1923.pdf532.71 KB
CUL-PUB-1-13. Armistice Day. Observance of anniversary of 11 November 1924.pdf671.69 KB
CUL-PUB-1-14. Public office holidays 1925.pdf592.58 KB
CUL-PUB-1-15. Armistice Day. Observance of anniversary of 11 November 1925.pdf401.16 KB
CUL-PUB-1-16. Armistice Day. Observance of anniversary of 11 November 1926.pdf464.01 KB
CUL-PUB-1-18. Public office holidays.pdf1.21 MB
CUL-PUB-1-19. Observance of Battle of Falkland Islands day 8 December 1927.pdf246.26 KB
CUL-PUB-1-20. Empire Day messages.pdf4.52 MB
CUL-PUB-1-21. Public holidays.pdf7.68 MB
CUL-PUB-1-22. Arrangements for the celebration of the anniversary of the Falkland Islands Battle.pdf2.76 MB
CUL-PUB-1-23. Remembrance Day.pdf4.55 MB
CUL-PUB-2-1. Commonwealth Day 24 May was Empire day.pdf10.96 MB
CUL-PUB-2-2. H.M.S Kent s Reunion Party To Commemorate Battle of Falklands.pdf1.01 MB
CUL-PUB-2-3. Trafalgar Day.pdf2.62 MB
Time
‘…considerable time has been lost to the Company owing to our employees “turning to” by the Government bell and “knocking off” by the Cathedral Clock or vice versa.’
CUL-GEN-1-18. Captain Goddard. Revival of custom of firing time-gun at noon on each Monday.pdf192.12 KB
CUL-GEN-1-19. Standard time in Stanley.pdf529.4 KB
CUL-GEN-1-22. Time received by Supt of Tels and Tels to be adopted throughout Colony.pdf1.08 MB
CUL-GEN-1-23. Admiralty enquire if any standard time is kept in FIs and Dependencies.pdf175.54 KB
Disclaimer
While every effort has been taken to ensure accuracy the Jane Cameron National Archives does not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in these records.
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Introduction
Outward Despatch and Letter Books – B and G Series
From the 1840's until after World War II all outward despatches were copied into letter books.
The B series of volumes consist of thirty volumes and commence with Governor Moody. They cover the period 24 July 1841 to 31 December 1906.
The G series of volumes consist of twenty-nine volumes. Volumes G1 to G4 are duplicates of the early B series and cover the period 30 April 1842 to 11 November 1852. Volume G5 holds copies of enclosures for the period 26 November 1890 to 26 December 1903. Volumes G6 to G29 cover the period 22 August 1905 to 31 December 1947.
It should be noted that these volumes are scanned in the order they have been written and are not necessarily in date order and a number of the books have numbering errors. To reduce handling and unnecessary stress on the volumes blank pages have not been scanned and not all pages are legible either due to fading or damage.
NB: Work on scanning these volumes is ongoing.
Governor Moody 1842 to 1848 (B1 to B5, part B27 and B28)
Governor Rennie 1848 to 1855 (B6 to B9, part B27 and B28)
Governor Moore 1855 to 1862 (B10 to B12, part B27 and B28)
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Copyright guide
Copies of government records may be used freely for private research and educational purposes. If material is to be used for commercial publication, exhibition or broadcast the written permission of the Jane Cameron National Archives must first be obtained. Whenever material from the Jane Cameron National Archives is reproduced in any form or in any medium, the user must acknowledge the Jane Cameron National Archives as the source and give all document references. For non-government records it is your responsibility as the user to ensure that copyright is not infringed and any infringement that does occur is your responsibility.
Introduction
Situated in the South-West Atlantic, the waters around the Falkland Islands are one of the richest fishery resources in the world.
Louis Vernet, a German businessman of French origin, looked to exploiting the fishery, particularly sealing, in 1828. He was supposed to have sent away eighty tons of salt fish in one year.
In 1833 Woodbine Parish stated that mullet ‘are in such numbers that ten or twelve men could always catch and salt about sixty tons in less than a month. They were usually caught with a sweeping net…many ship loads might be procured annually’.
When Charles Darwin visited the Falkland Islands in the 1830s he recorded two indigenous species of freshwater fish, Aplochiton zebra and Glaxius maculatus, known locally as zebra trout and minnows.
Common sea fish which were easily caught in creeks and bays were the mullet, a member of the Antarctic rock cod group, and smelt. Mullet were easily caught with a hook and both were caught using nets, often in conjunction with fish weirs.
Edmund Kemp, age 21 and an English fisherman, arrived at Port Louis 18 December 1840. He was employed in Mr Whitington’s fishing establishment and lived in Fish House Creek.
The mullet fishery in Johnsons Harbour, Chabot Creek, and Bougainville Creek in Berkeley Sound, as well as the mullet fishery in Duperry Harbour were leased 31 March 1851 to Messrs Mackinnon, Hamond and Sulivan, the highest bidders at public auction. Other mullet fisheries awarded at the same auction were Mullet Creek to Henry Felton and Weir Creek to Augustus C Ploger.
The Falkland Islands Company Ltd were quick to see the possible commercial potential and May 1854 saw the arrival of Thomas Fawcett, a fish salter, who arrived under contract. On 21 January 1856 the Company rented the mullet fisheries in the North Creek, Middle Creek and North East Creeks in Port San Salvador for an annual rental of £6. Three days later they rented the mullet fishery at Weir Creek for £2 per annum.
In the 1940s and the 1950s brown trout were introduced and thrived in both the rivers and at sea.
On 29 October 1986 an Interim Fishery Conservation Zone with a radius of 150 miles was announced and the Falklands Inner Conservation Zone (FICZ) came into effect from 1 February 1987. On 28 November 1990 the Falklands Outer Conservation Zone (FOCZ) was established with a radius of 200 miles. As well as protecting these important fishing grounds from overfishing the income generated provided the means for the Falkland Islands to grow and develop its infrastructure.
Government Files
TRA-FIS-1-3. J O Borley. Proposed introduction of salmon and trout.pdf5.62 MB
TRA-FIS-1-4. Supply of fish at South American Coast and possibility of trawling in FIs waters.pdf360.59 KB
TRA-FIS-1-7. Dr R T Wade. Possibility of oyster growing in the Falkland Islands.pdf701.93 KB
TRA-FIS-1-8. Fishing resources. Includes Falkland Islands sea fish. Also trout part only.pdf2.91 MB
TRA-FIS-1-9. Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1940. Fisheries research.pdf5.89 MB
TRA-FIS-1-10. Sea fisheries. Trawling and Centolla by T J Hart.pdf3.22 MB
TRA-FIS-1-11. Imported fish.pdf6.48 MB
TRA-FIS-1-12. Minor industries. Fishing.pdf398.1 KB
TRA-FIS-1-13. Falkland Islands fisheries.pdf921.39 KB
TRA-FIS-1-15. Falkland Islands fisheries. Donald Black USA applies for fishing concession.pdf95.07 KB
TRA-FIS-1-16. Falkland Islands Fisheries. Falkland Islands Fisheries Limited.pdf143.4 KB
TRA-FIS-1-17. Territorial waters.pdf2.74 MB
TRA-FIS-1-18. Imported fish.pdf10.24 MB
TRA-FIS-2-1. Imported fish.pdf4.2 MB
TRA-FIS-2-2. Fish. Salmon ova trout ova.pdf1.38 MB
TRA-FIS-2-3. FIRADA proposal for commercial fisheries study.pdf815.18 KB
TRA-FIS-2-4. Fisheries consultancies. Salmon project.pdf4.81 MB
TRA-FIS-2-5. Krill.pdf1.91 MB
Reports
R-TRA-FIS-1-4. The Offshore Fisheries Resources of the Falkland Islands - Dr DNF Hall - 1984.pdf8.17 MB
R-TRA-FIS-1-5. Report on the Spanish Southwest Atlantic Fisheries - Dr DNF Hall - 1984.pdf2.66 MB
R-TRA-FIS-2-1. Falkland Islands Fisheries Department Fishing Log Book - Gamefish Survey - 1992.pdf364.29 KB
R-TRA-FIS-3-1. Stanley Fisheries Ltd Annual Report 1987.pdf2.5 MB
Disclaimer
While every effort has been taken to ensure accuracy the Jane Cameron National Archives does not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in these records.
Copyright guide
Copies of government records may be used freely for private research and educational purposes. If material is to be used for commercial publication, exhibition or broadcast the written permission of the Jane Cameron National Archives must first be obtained. Whenever material from the Jane Cameron National Archives is reproduced in any form or in any medium, the user must acknowledge the Jane Cameron National Archives as the source and give all document references. For non-government records it is your responsibility as the user to ensure that copyright is not infringed and any infringement that does occur is your responsibility.
Introduction
Outward Despatch and Letter Books – B and G Series
From the 1840's until after World War II all outward despatches were copied into letter books.
The B series of volumes consist of thirty volumes and commence with Governor Moody. They cover the period 24 July 1841 to 31 December 1906.
The G series of volumes consist of twenty-nine volumes. Volumes G1 to G4 are duplicates of the early B series and cover the period 30 April 1842 to 11 November 1852. Volume G5 holds copies of enclosures for the period 26 November 1890 to 26 December 1903. Volumes G6 to G29 cover the period 22 August 1905 to 31 December 1947.
It should be noted that these volumes are scanned in the order they have been written and are not necessarily in date order and a number of the books have numbering errors. To reduce handling and unnecessary stress on the volumes blank pages have not been scanned and not all pages are legible either due to fading or damage.
NB: Work on scanning these volumes is ongoing.
G11. BOOK NOT HELD IN THE ARCHIVES
Disclaimer
While every effort has been taken to ensure accuracy the Jane Cameron National Archives does not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in these records.
Copyright guide
Copies of government records may be used freely for private research and educational purposes. If material is to be used for commercial publication, exhibition or broadcast the written permission of the Jane Cameron National Archives must first be obtained. Whenever material from the Jane Cameron National Archives is reproduced in any form or in any medium, the user must acknowledge the Jane Cameron National Archives as the source and give all document references. For non-government records it is your responsibility as the user to ensure that copyright is not infringed and any infringement that does occur is your responsibility.