Melbourne Central Business District
1951
Four Men Standing on St Kilda Road, near Princes Bridge, Melbourne, 1951
Registration Number: MM 111006
Photographer: Unknown
Description
Four men standing on the foot-path on Saint Kilda Road, near Princes Bridge, Melbourne.
This photograph shows Ivan Kucan and friends on St Kilda Road, next to Princes Bridge, Melbourne, 1951. According to his family, in 1949 the Kucan family migrated to Australia as displaced persons after the war. They had stayed in a displaced persons camp in Austria for four years but their country of origin was the Ukraine. The first two years in Australia, they lived in migrant camps in Bonegilla and Benalla. The men had to work off the cost of their passage in a contract to the government. After two years of working off their passage the group of five migrant men came down to Melbourne to purchase land to build homes.
People Depicted:
Konuisko, Mr (first name unknown); Howko, Mr. (first name unknown); Nytchenko, Mr (first name unknown); Kucan, ivan
Acknowledgement:
Contributed by Ms Larysa Kucan
Reproduction Rights: Museum Victoria