Karen Stade
Karen Stade of Historinz is a historical researcher and writer who specializes in producing regional, social, community and school history books. A keen genealogist, she also researches and writes family histories and museum exhibitions and can conduct oral history recordings. With more than 30 years of journalistic experience working in print and broadcast media, Karen now concentrates on her love of history and is the author of numerous books. In 2017 Karen was awarded a Queen's Service Medal for her historical research and services to the community.
Genre:
- History
Skills:
- Editing
- Indexing
- Research
Branch:
Top of the South
Location:
Nelson
Publications:
Appo Hocton - New Zealand's First Chinese Immigrant Nelson 1842-1920
Appo Hocton arrived in Nelson in 1842, within months of its settlement. As a nine year old Wong Ah Poo Hoc Ting had left South China to become a cabin boy on English sailing ships. In his early 20s, as a steward on the immigrant ship Thomas Harrison, he jumped ship in Nelson and began his assimilation into New Zealand colonial society. He worked his way from housekeeper to the ship's doctor, to owning his own carting business. Successfully obtaining naturalisation as a British subject he married, had children to two European women, and became in turn a property developer, fungus and scrap iron dealer, and farmer. His story is one of migration, diversity, integration and acceptance.
The School By The Sands - a century of Tahunanui School, Nelson 1908-2008
The Nelson seaside school of Tahunanui began in a tiny lean-to shed in 1908. Despite Nelson Education Board scepticism that the school and its settlement would even be permanent, the school by the sands grew quickly. Over a century, Tahunanui School has grown and changed, reflecting the people and events of its history. Marking its centennial in 2008, pupils, staff and parents bring the story of its development as a much valued community institution to life.
Pasta, Prayer & Promise, the story of Nelson's Italian community, 1860-2014
Follow the journey of Nelson's Italian community, from those lured by the call of gold in the 1860s, a lost fishing community, to the market gardeners who grew a living in the city's soils through the 20th century.
Daring to be Different, the Nayland College Way 1966-2016
A book highlighting the non traditional 'Nayland way', written to celebrate Nayland College's 50th anniversary reunion in 2016. When the school was planned and built in the 1960s, its new headmaster was determined it would not follow traditional educational methods but instead would do its own thing and follow its own path. This founding principle continues today.
Driven by the Wind - The Memoir of Captain Henry Rose
The story of sea Captain Henry Rose tells of 19th century sailing ships carrying troops to the Crimea War, Indian labourers to Central America, convicts to Australia and immigrants to New Zealand. Based on the captain's memoir, penned a year before he died in 1912, 'Driven by the Wind' tells of a boy born to English parents in Colombia, who became an apprentice in the Merchant Navy at the age of 14 and rose to the rank of master mariner and captain of his own ships by his mid 20s. He first sailed into Lyttelton in 1863 just as digging for the Lyttelton Tunnel was underway and later became a foundation member of the newly constituted Wellington Harbour Board.