Carlo Catani

This blog is a tribute to Engineer, Carlo Catani (1852 -1918) Carlo worked for the Public Works Department of Victoria. His projects included draining the Koo Wee Rup and Moe Swamps, flood mitigation works on the Yarra River and the reclamation of the St Kilda foreshore. The gardens he designed at the end of Fitzroy Street were named after him as was the Catani arch bridge on the St Kilda foreshore. This blog covers Catani's professional and personal life. Heather Arnold

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Monday, October 22, 2018

Carlo's Naturalisation in 1892

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Carlo Catani was naturalised in 1892 - what date? Not sure - he filled out the form on February 15, it was witnessed on February 16, his ...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Carlo and the 'popular culture' magazine 'Table Talk'

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We all know about Trove - one of my favourite things of all time - it has (amongst other things) digitised Australian newspapers from 1803 ...
Monday, October 15, 2018

What did Carlo wear?

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What did Carlo wear on a daily basis? Let the Beechworth newspaper, The Ovens and Murray Advertiser , tell us. They printed an article in ...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Koo Wee Rup Swamp Drainage history

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Being born and bred on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp, I feel I always knew about Carlo as he was one of the Public Works Department engineers that w...
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Friday, October 12, 2018

Carlo and the safety of the Patterson River bridge

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In the Colony of Victoria, until 1884 all the military or defences forces were volunteers. This changed in 1884 with the introduction of the...

A tribute to Carlo - What a man!

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In The Herald of February 4, 1928  (1)   Mr H. O Allan looked back on his 51 years in the Lands Department in the Victorian Public Service...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Catani Clock Tower unveiled at St Kilda in 1932

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The residents of St Kilda erected a memorial to Carlo Catani, in the form of a clock tower,  which was unveiled on August 22, 1932, on the U...
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Heather
I am a local history enthusiast, the President of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society and the Secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association. I was the Local History Librarian at Casey Cardinia Libraries from 2005 until 2021.
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