Peopling a new colony: Henry Jordan, land orders, and Queensland immigration, 1861–7

Abstract This article analyses the first years of land order system immigration that dominated Queensland’s settlement as a colony. Queensland issued orders worth £30 per adult to fare-paying British and Irish immigrants who were mechanics, agriculturalists people with modest amounts capital. form was facilitated through work an Emigration Commissioner – later Agent-General based in Isles. Henry Jordan held these positions period 1861–6. The argues only partly met their intended outcomes, but Jordan’s activities essential for scheme’s limited success.