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Garran is a suburb in the Woden district of Canberra. Garran was named after Sir Robert Garran who made numorous contributions to the development of higher education institutions in Canberra. The streets in Garran are named after Australian writers. As of the 2001 census there were 3130 people living in Garran. The suburb was first settled in 1966 and has an area of 274 ha Woden Valley is a district of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. ... Canberra is the capital of the Commonwealth of Australia and, with a population of just over 323,000, is also Australias largest inland city. ... Sir Robert Randolph Garran (1867 - 1957) was an Australian lawyer, federalist and public servant. ... A hectare (symbol ha) is a metric unit of surface area, equal to 100 ares (the name is a contraction of the SI prefix hecto + are). ...
Garran accompanied Hughes and Joseph Cook to the 1917 meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet in London, United Kingdom, and was also part of the British Empire delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in Paris, France.
Garran was also involved with the arts; he was the vice-president of the Canberra Musical Society, where he sang and played the clarinet, and in 1946 won a national song competition run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Garran's influence on Canberra is remembered by the naming of the suburb of Garran, AustralianCapitalTerritory, and his link with ANU is remembered by the naming of a chair in the university's School of Law, and by the naming of the hall of residence Burton & Garran Hall.
Garran was also an important figure in the development of the city of Canberra, organising the creation of the Canberra University College and later contributing to the establishment of the Australian National University, and founding several important cultural associations in the new city.
Garran's mother "had a deep distrust, well justified in those days, of milkman's milk" and so the family kept a cow in the backyard, which would walk on its own to The Domain each day to graze and return twice a day to be milked.
Garran's influence on Canberra is remembered by the naming of the suburb of Garran, AustralianCapitalTerritory, and his link with ANU is remembered by the naming of a chair in the university's School of Law, and by the naming of the hall of residence Burton and Garran Hall.
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