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by students in Multimedia Studies at Tin Can Bay P-10 State School
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Tin Can Bay was once called tun-kin (aboriginal
word for dugong), other names include; Tin-Kin (big fish) and Tindhin
(mangroves), Tuncunba - "ba" meaning "place of" and "Tuncun" meaning
"Dugong" or "plenty of tucker".
- The township
was known as Wallu and changed to Tin Can Bay
in 1937 (also known as Toolara).
- Dugong processing
was the first industry in Tin Can Bay (1850s).
- Next
came the Timber industry; Sim and Pettigrew laid the Kaloolah railway
to transport timber to Maryborough.
- By
the turn of the century, Tin Can Bay still had no permanent settlement.
- The
township started with the sale of 25 blocks in 1922, for a sum of 40
pounds each. However, by 1929 Tin Can Bay was still a backwater with
only three permanent residents.
- The
first shop in Tin Can Bay was built in 1932 by Viv Mason. At this time
the town had 35 permanent residents.
- Tin
Can Bay school was built in 1935.
- The
Qld Fishboard Tin Can Bay market opened in 1945.
- Tin
Can Bay was a holiday spot and port until 1957 when it boomed due to
the discovery of banana prawns, by Fred Langford, in the Sandy Straits
(worth up to 2 shillings each
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