Building a Community for European New Zealanders
In 1961, White European peoples made up 92% of the population of New Zealand. Ever since then, the proportion of the population identifying themselves as European has gradually lowered – as of the last census, only 60% identified as being European only. This diversification has been a result of mass migration. Continue Reading
Whalers, sailors, runaways, settlers, shearers, miners, bushmen, gumdiggers, soldiers, drinkers, swaggers… our ancestors were a varied lot. They came from Britain mostly, with England, Scotland and Ireland as the main places of origin; but there were also Welshmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, Scandinavians, Poles, Americans, Australians, Canadians, and others. For the Continue Reading
Our history, our heritage, our culture, our language, our institutions, our laws, our values, and for the vast, overwhelming majority of white New Zealanders, even our blood itself, all come from the isles of Great Britain and Ireland. One of the many traditions we have inherited is the celebration of Continue Reading
It was early in 1907 when it started. The population of New Zealand was less than one million; Sir Joseph Ward was Prime Minister, Edward VII was King, and New Zealand was still months away from achieving Dominion status. It didn’t start in a city, the growing metropolis of Auckland Continue Reading
During the Great Depression of the early 1930s, a phenomenon unique in New Zealand history took place; a grassroots political movement exploded out of nowhere, immediately spread across the country, grew to include tens of thousands of members, and then disappeared. This group was the New Zealand Legion. “Greatly daring, Continue Reading