The first four ships reach Lyttelton
- When
- 16 December 1850
- Where
- Lyttelton · Ōhinehou
- Reach
- Several regions
The Canterbury Association landed Anglican settlers at Lyttelton, who walked over the Port Hills to found Christchurch on the plains.
Canterbury was the most deliberately engineered of the Wakefield settlements — a transplanted English county, complete with cathedral and public school, funded by land sales at a deliberately high price to keep labourers labouring. The Kemp purchase of 1848 had acquired 20 million acres of Ngāi Tahu land for £2,000, again with reserves that were never properly set aside.
Regions affected
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