Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL 2025/References

Banks Peninsula books

All these works will be created in Wikidata using the Christchurch Libraries catalogue, and if possible digitised, transcribed, and proofread using Wikisource (see below).

Pyke, Angela and Kevin Clark. To The Wilderness – French settlers in Akaroa 1840–1920
Turner, Gwenda. Akaroa
Menzies, Ian H. (1970). The Story of Menzies Bay. Pegasus.
Ogilvie, Gordon. Picturing the Peninsula
Shadbolt, Vern. (2008). The History of the Duvauchelle Show 1860–2008

Book digitisation project

We are using Wikisource to digitise and proofread out-of-copyright Banks Peninsula publications. Just as with the West Coast Task Force, these can be freely downloaded and shared as e-books in PDF, EPUB, or MOBI format.

Proofreading team

To proofread/validate

Hay, James (1841–1922). (1915). Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury (principally Banks' Peninsula) and Its Settlers. Christchurch: Christchurch Press Company. 215 p. A history of Banks Peninsula, especially Pigeon Bay. (Google Books, Canterbury Stories).
Jacobson, Howard Charles (1841–1910). (2nd ed. 1893). Tales of Banks Peninsula. Akaroa: Akaroa Mail. 307 p. A local history which contains Stack's "Maori History of Banks Peninsula". (Hathi Trust, Internet Archive; 1914 ed. NZETC; there's also a revised 1940 edition Akaroa and Banks Peninsula 1840–1940 by William E. M. Jacobson (1887–1957), 396 pp, still copyrighted in USA.)

To import to Wikisource

Cowan, James (1870–1943). (1923). Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand. Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs. 73 p. (Google Books requested release as in the public domain, State Library of Victoria).
Wall, Arnold (1869–1966). (1922). The Botany of Christchurch. Lyttelton: Lyttelton Times. 41 p. (Google Books; requested release as in the public domain.) A longer 1953 edition published by AH and AW Reed is still in copyright, because Wall, who desperately needs a better Wikipedia article, died in 1966.
L. Cockayne, & R. Speight. (1914). The Summit Road: its scenery, botany, and geology. Christchurch: Smith & Anthony. 40 p. (Christchurch Libraries).
Baughan, Blanche Edith (1870–1958). Her Wikipedia article has been much improved by User:Gertrude206. She published 5 volumes of poetry and 10 books of nature or travel writing that are now in the public domain in the USA and would be good candidates; her remaining books were published in 1929, 1936, and 1945. There's also a new biography of her (Markwell, Carol (2021). Enough Horizon. Wellington: Cuba Press), so there's great scope for a Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikisource project on her life and works. Selected works:
- — (12 September 1908). "The Finest Walk in the World." The Spectator (in its archives). (An account of the Milford Track, later published in Studies in New Zealand Scenery, below—it would be good to get the map from it)
- — (1911) Uncanny Country: the Thermal District of New Zealand. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs. (1922 3rd edition, 72 p., in Chch Libraries). TO SCAN?
- — (1916). Studies in New Zealand Scenery. Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs. 282 p. Reprinted in 1922 as Glimpses of New Zealand Scenery with an Akaroa chapter added, presumably the following.. (Internet Archive)
- — (1919). Akaroa. Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs. (Google Books to clear, Chch Libraries)

To scan

Speight, Wall, and Laing (1927). The Natural History of Canterbury. Christchurch: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. 299 p. (Internet Archive, some illustrations should be rescanned from original)

Cite Q

When a book like Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills (1st ed.) (Q125954864) has been created in Wikidata, it can be cited using the CiteQ template .
Sample reference to use: <ref>{{Cite book |last=Ogilvie |first=Gordon |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125954864 |title=Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills |date= |publisher=Canterbury University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-927145-93-7 |pages=15 |language=English}}</ref>