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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Saturday, August 21, 2021

Carlo Catani - Cyclopedia of Victoria, 1903

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In the last post (see here ) I looked at Ettore Checchi's entry from the Cyclopedia of Victoria , which  was published in three volumes ...

Ettore Checchi - Cyclopedia of Victoria, 1903

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The Cyclopedia of Victoria was  published in three volumes: volume 1 in 1903, and the next two volumes in 1904 and 1905. They were, as the t...

Ettore Checchi - River Murray Agreement and River Gauging by J.N. Churchyard.

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This article on Ettore Checchi, by J. N. Churchyard, Research Officer at the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission was first published in...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Streets named Catani

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I have been for a few drives and photographed all the Catani street signs in Victoria. There is also a Catani Place in Monash in the A.C.T.,...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Carlo and the Lubecker Steam dredge

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Photographs of Carlo are very rare but my research colleague and fellow Carlo Catani historian, Isaac Hermann, has just identified him in th...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Carlo and the Chalet Geneve on Albert Park Lake

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The Albert Park Lake Kiosk was officially opened on December 9, 1911 by the Mayor of South Melbourne, Cr Donald McArthur. His speech was rep...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Above the clouds - Trout fishing in Lake Catani

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Carlo was responsible for opening some of Victoria's most scenic tourist areas, of which Mount Buffalo is the best-known. The road betwe...
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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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