Talk:History of Canterbury Region

History before 1851
Wow that's pretty a pretty comprehensive record of Canterbury's history upto 1851. Has anything happened since? Seriously this is good so far, a good coverage of the early peroid and far better than that I expected when I clicked on the link. It's good that it has't just got stuck on the old chesnut of the so-called first four ships. But lets kick on from here.Thecrystalcicero (talk) 21:48, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * In fact there is very little history of Canterbury at all! it is mostly prehistory and history of the area that later became known as Canterbury and virtually nothing of the history of Canterbury once it was so named. And if the detail for 1851-present was as detailed as that for up to 1851 this article would be far too long. 07:09, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, but it needs a para referring to the Canterbury Association. Hugo999 (talk) 22:49, 31 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Wow is all I can say about this article, so far. .... BUT Why does the history stop at the end of 1850 with a single sentence about the arrival of the First Four Ships? Also, whatever happened to documenting the story about the "Kemp Deed" and land purchases for the New Zealand company that happened subsequent to the land sold to the French. There is also some inconsistency between this article and other related articles about Canterbury settlement. There were earlier settlers at Riccarton, before the Deans, about 1840, who lasted about a year or so. I understand the brothers took over an existing lease that had been abandoned. The Canterbury Association story really starts with the arrival of Captain Thomas in 1848, not Godley's arrival in April 1850. There is a huge story yet to be told between the Deans settling in Riccarton in 1845 and and the Christchurch 2011 Earthquake which were an aftershock to the September 2010 Canterbury Earthquake. While the earlier Earthquake in 2010 affected greater Canterbury, the later quakes primarily affected Christchurch so should perhaps receive less weight. There is also the Kaikoura earthquake which started in North Canterbury. Until at least some of the intervening 19th and 20th century history is told, in at least a summary form, this article can only be considered a Start because so much is missing. Great story, so far, but we have probably covered about a dozen years of European settlement and have another 170 to go. If we went on in this degree of detail then the article would be at least ten times its current size. So where do we go from here? - Cameron Dewe (talk) 07:26, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

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