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Forgotten Australians, memories

For Violet

16/11/201112/04/2019 National Museum of Australia

Janice Konstantinidis was an inmate in Mount Saint Canice, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, where she worked as an unpaid child labourer in the Good Shepherd Sisters’ commercial laundry. Janice now lives in California in USA. Here she shares her writing about her paternal grandmother.

Tagged family, identity, Mount Saint Canice, Tasmania
Forgotten Australians, poetry

Summer’s Cloud

15/11/201112/04/2019 National Museum of Australia

Janice Konstantinidis was an inmate in Mount Saint Canice, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, where she worked as an unpaid child labourer in the Good Shepherd Sisters' commercial laundry. Janice now lives in California in USA. Here, she shares one of her recent poems.

Tagged child labour, garden, Mount Saint Canice, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Tasmania, United States of America2 Comments
Forgotten Australians, memories, photos

Return to Mount Saint Canice

10/03/201112/04/2019 National Museum of Australia

In January 2010, Janice Konstantinidis returned to her former Home, Mount Saint Canice, Sandy Bay, Tasmania to witness its redevelopment into luxury apartments.

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