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Government Record Section, Sheas Creek Stores, May 1957

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From Sheas Creek to Alexandra Canal

Once a stream draining much of southern Sydney, the conversion of the Sheas Creek to an industrial canal resulted in a polluted and ugly corridor that has defied attempts at remediation

Archives

Rivers and Catchments

Sheas Creek

Creek now confined to a stormwater channel flowing from Alexandria into the Alexandra Canal.

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Alexandra canal

Canal excavated out of Sheas Creek between 1887 and 1900 and named in honour of Princess Alexandra, Princess of Wales and later Queen consort to Edward VII. It has a catchment area of 1380 hectares which includes the suburbs of Alexandria, Moore Park, Redfern. Surry Hills and Rosebery.

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