Goodacre Point

Goodacre Point (52˚57'00" 129˚33'00" SE tip of Dewdney I, Estevan Group, Caamaño Sd). Lawrence Goodacre (1840–1925) was born in England, migrated to Victoria in 1866 and set up in business as a butcher with partner John Stafford, who died in 1876. Goodacre married Stafford’s widow, Maria (1846–1918, née Sketchly), in 1877. He was a six-term Victoria city councilor, 1889–1906, and, as chair of the parks committee, a force behind the zoo that once existed at Beacon Hill Park (he...

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