Bishop Gibney laid foundation stone of the new church in Katanning

Katanning made a parish and Fr James Duff PP

St Brigid’s Church, Collie is established as a parish

Bunbury Congregation of Sisters of Mercy established as separate from Victoria Square. Double story brick Convict erected in Wittenoom Street and dedicated to St Patrick, Apostle of Ireland.

Bishop Gibney dedicates Katanning Church

St Joseph’s Church, Busselton, constituted as a parish, Fr Adolphus Lecaille first PP

Kojonup established as a parish, reverted to Katanning from 1894

Sisters of Mercy from Victoria Square, Perth, establish themselves in Bunbury

Convent and Boarding House for students opens in Albany

St Patrick’s Church, Katanning constituted a parish

First School opened in Albany by Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition.

Work began on a church in Busselton under Fr Patrick McCabe

St Patrick’s Church Bunbury declared as a parish, centred on Church in Wittenoom Street

Stella Maris Church Albany, opened and Albany made a parish

Busselton town lots 155, 156 set aside for the Roman Catholic Church

Fr Venancio Garrido OSB appointed resident priest in Bunbury

First school at Dardanup staffed by a schoolmaster

Father Peter Aragon OSB arrived in Dardanup as resident Priest for South West and Vasse Districts

Laying of foundation stone by Bishop Salvado for the first WA church completed outside Perth

Thomas Little gave Bishop Serra OSB 50 acres to build a church and monastery

Convict era in WA contributed to the growth of the south west of WA as public building and roads were constructed by convict labour based at camps at Bunbury, Kojonup, Albany

Visits by Bishop Brady and Benedictines to the Vasse district [Busselton]

Arrival of French missionaries of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Santa Maria Mission at Lake Mullalyup near Kendenup

Beginning but early collapse of the WA Land Settlement scheme centred on Australind intended to breed horses for the British army in India, first migrants arrived on the ship Parkfield where the Cathedral now stands is named after this ship

A military station set up at Port Leschenault in 1803 named after the botanist on French ship Geographe

Foundation of Swan River colony establishment of Perth

Landing of Captain James Lockyer from Amity with contingent of troops and convicts at Albany