John Gale (journalist)
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Rev John Gale (17 April 1831 – 15 July 1929) was a Methodist Minister and founder of the Queanbeyan Age newspaper in 1860.
He was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England in 1829. Educated at Monmouth Grammar School he was apprenticed to the printing trade in 1846. He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1854 as an ordained Minister in the Methodist Church but left shortly after in 1857. He moved to Queanbeyan in 1860 and established the Golden Age newspaper which soon metamorphosed into the still extant Queanbeyan Age. He was an active proponent for making the Canberra-Queanbeyan region Australia's capital city. He was ultimately successful in this goal.
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- Canberra : history of and legends relating to the Federal Capital Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, Fallick and Sons, 1927
- Six Days in the Mountains of Cowley, 1901-1920
- Trout Fishing in the Goodradigbee River, 1904
- An alpine excursion : notes of a trip to the mountains, rivers, plains and caves of the Australian Alps, 1903
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