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Introduction  About the Author || 2: The Migrant Circumstances
>>   WYALKATCHEM'S migrant phase lasted just two decades, from
1950 until 1970, or one fifth of the town's first century as a
significant Western Australian (WA) central wheatbelt farming
and service, educational, medical and sporting - centre, which
commenced in 1905 when John Lindsay settled land well south of
the yet-to-be-gazetted town site, and William Wallace Jones, and
his partner Thomas Smith, contemporaneously reaching the
Cowcowing lakes area, well north of the town. During those two
mid-20th century decades more than twenty Eastern European and
other non-English speaking families became short and longer-term
residents with over a dozen of these falling into the latter
category. Although most of these longer-term settlers were of
Polish ancestry - with the majority reaching Fremantle via
Hitler's Third Reich - there were several Ukrainians, some
Greeks, and, very briefly, even two R