 A typical street in Ainslie Ainslie (postcode: 2602) is a leafy suburb in the Inner North of Canberra, Australia. Postcodes are used by Australia Post to identify postal districts in Australia. ...
North Canberra is a district of Canberra, the capital city of Australia, comprised of 15 suburbs with 15,150 dwellings housing 40,455 people of the 311,518 people in the Australian Capital Territory (June 2001 Census). ...
Canberra is the capital of the Commonwealth of Australia and, with a population of just over 323,000, is also Australias largest inland city. ...
The suburb is bounded by Limestone Ave, and Majura Ave to the west, Mount Ainslie to the east, the Australian War Memorial to the south and the suburb of Hackett to the north. Hackett sign Hackett Oval Hackett is an Inner North suburb of Canberra. ...
The Ainslie local shops are located in the middle of the suburb and include restaurants, cafes, bakery, local supermarket, post office/newsagent and Edgars, a popular local pub. The suburb is also the location of a preschool, the Ainslie Football Club, and the Ainslie Fire Station which serves North Canberra. The North Ainslie Primary School is located in the suburb, but the Ainslie Primary School, Canberra's oldest, is actually located in Braddon on the western side of Limestone Ave.
The Anglican All Saints Church is located on Cowper street in Ainslie, a building which was transported from Sydney in 1957 that originally served as a railway station at the Rookwood Cemetery. All Saints Church. ...
Frazer Mausoleum, Rookwood. ...
The suburb is characterised by leafy streets, detached single dwelling houses. Small blocks of flats are located in the south of the suburb, as is Ainslie Village an ACT Government centre which provides accommodation for people with special needs. The suburn has recently experienced 'in-fill' development in recent years, sometimes in the case of dual occupancy dwellings (where two dwellings are constructed on a lot which previously contained one house).
The suburb was named for James Ainslie. According to the ACT Planning and Land Authority website: James Ainslie was the "First overseer of 'Duntroon Station' in Canberra; employed by Robert Campbell to drive a mob of sheep south from Bathurst 'until he found suitable land', 1825; Ainslie chose the Limestone Plains (the Canberra district) about 1825; was overseer for ten years before returning to Scotland. Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Ainslie was gazetted by the Government in 1928.
In April 2005, an ACT government staff member was embarrasingly caught by police spray painting anti-John Howard graffiti at Ainslie shops. The graffiti was quickly removed by the government hours after it appeared in the Canberra Times . [1] The Honourable John Winston Howard, MP (born 26 July 1939), is an Australian politician and pooped his pants coming to office on 11 March 1996 and winning re-election in 1998, 2001 and 2004. ...
The Canberra Times newspaper was founded in 1926 in Canberra, Australia by a local family called the Shakesperes. ...
In September 2005, there was a fire at the Ainslie shops which caused up to $500,000 damage to a laundromat. [2]
This is a list of suburbs in the city of Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. ...
Dickson (postcode: 2602) is a suburb in the Inner North of Canberra, Australia. ...
Dickson (postcode: 2602) is a suburb in the Inner North of Canberra, Australia. ...
Hackett sign Hackett Oval Hackett is an Inner North suburb of Canberra. ...
Mount Ainslie or Mount Ainslie-Majura is a part of Canberra Nature Park. ...
Braddon (postcode: 2612) is an inner north suburb of Canberra, Australia. ...
ANZAC Day Dawn Service at AWM, 25 April 2005, 90th anniversary The War Memorial is set amongst parkland The Australian War Memorial is Australias national memorial to the members of all its armed forces and supporting organizations who have died in the wars of the modern state of Australia. ...
Mount Ainslie or Mount Ainslie-Majura is a part of Canberra Nature Park. ...
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