Colac

"Colac" Robertsons, the Websters and Westbys and Wilsons, who are now the young or the still vigorous life of their colony.

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria William Westgarth 1852

‘Colac,’ are now reduced, all ages and sexes, under forty, and these are still on the decay.

An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre 2004

Colac she got out of the train and into the mail coach, to lumber, the night through, over the ruts and jolts of bush roads, Lucie a dead weight on her lap, Cuffy lying heavily up against her.

Ultima Thule 2003

Born in 1949 in Colac, Victoria, Mr Brown was educated at the Australian National University and the University of Cambridge.

Diplomatic appointment: High Commissioner to Zimbabwe - Media release - Minister for Foreign Affairs 2001

'My grandfather's brother Ernest — Grannie's brother-in-law — he married a girl at Colac with five thousand acres.

The Rainbow and the Rose Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1958

Except, perhaps, some second cousins up at Colac 'I grinned at him.

The Rainbow and the Rose Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1958

Colac road -- a hamlet that must be nameless in this story.

The Lost Valley James Morgan Walsh 1924

Latrobe. # -- in 1838 Geelong began to grow into a township, and the settlers spread west as far as Colac.

History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880

For twelve years I did the Government stroke in Her Majesty's Court at Colac, then I was ordered to make my way to Gippsland.

The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862

There was a blackfellow living for many years afterwards in the Colac district who was said to have killed and eaten the lost white man; the first settlers therefore call him Gellibrand, as they considered he had made out a good claim to the name by devouring the flesh.

The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862