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History of Living in Melbourne  Even before its founding in 1835, millions of people have called Melbourne their home. It has been home to Aboriginal people, the European settlers, and today is a very multicultural place and popular place for tourists and interstate visitors. Although Melbourne was founded in 1835, at least 40,000 years prior to European settlement, Melbourne was home to five Aboriginal tribes, a lot of them were from the Kulin nation. Most of the Aboriginals today in Melbourne have descended from this tribe.

We have decided to find information about the Living in Melbourne in 19th Century (since its founding).

Here we have a brief time line about this time of Melbourne's history:

In the 1840s, Melbourne was a young growing town. From 1841, there was one ship of British Immigrants arriving at Port Philip Bay every week. In 1848, the first non-British immigrant ship arrived, it was German. By 1845, the Australian population was at 279,148 and the Victorian population was at 32,879. In 1851, gold was discovered near Clunes, attracting almost half a million people in ten years. The accumulating population forced people to live in tents at Canvas Town, on the site where Southbank lies today. It was around this time when Germans began establishing small villages on the outskirts of Melbourne. Throughout the 1850s, more immigrants were coming to live in Melbourne from more countries including China and America. By 1855, the Australian population was at 793,260 and the Victorian population was at 347,305. In 1861, a law was made confining aboriginal people only to missions and reserves. In 1875, the first brick house in melbourne was built. It was used as an Office and had farm equipments and animals in the backyard. Between 1880 to 1890, there were lots of varieties of living places and building of melbourne. The working class lived in fairly comfortable cottages in the northern and western suburbs, the middle classes lived in separate villas on large blocks of land and the rich people built massive mansions beside the sea or in the scenic Yarra valley. While the older areas like Collingwood and Fitzroy turned into slums. During this time lots of new heavy industries were moving to the western suburbs of Melbourne.

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