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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Friday, April 30, 2021

Carlo and the Point Gellibrand Pile Light

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On Friday August 3, 1906 the Government steamer, the Lady Loch , sailed 12 miles down Port Phillip Bay, swung round so it was facing towards...
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Saturday, April 10, 2021

Carlo Catani and Wattle trees

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The wattle tree grows prolifically on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp. Even 130 years after the Swamp was drained in accordance with plans drawn up by...
Monday, March 29, 2021

You Yangs - the track to the summit of Flinders Peak

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The Geelong Advertiser of  October 12, 1911 published this short report - As a spot for tourists, the You Yangs is one of Geelong's neg...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Paintings of Lake Catani

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One of the paintings exhibited at the Victorian Artists' Society Annual Exhibition of Paintings in October 1911, was Lake Catani, Buffal...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Carlo advises Koo Wee Rup Swamp Village Settlers to push for annexation to the Shire of Buln Buln

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As early as 1897 the Village Settlers on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp began agitating to have their area secede from the Shire of Berwick and beco...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

George Clowser, paymaster of the Public Works Department

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Carlo Catani and the Public Works Department undertook projects throughout Victoria, men were employed and the men needed to be paid and one...
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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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