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Distinguished and Famous people from Koorda
🧭 John Septimus Roe
Surveyor-General John Septimus Roe passed through the district in October 1836 during an expedition east of the Avon Valley in search of pastoral land. Shire history places one of his camps a few miles north of the present town of Koorda. The town and its railway settlement came much later, so Roe’s connection is an early colonial surveying journey through the district.
🏭 James McCallum-Smith
Newspaper proprietor James McCallum-Smith owned extensive farmland in and around Koorda before the First World War, including Drumin Farm, named after a Scottish property. He also owned Perth’s Sunday Times. Shire history records an entertaining overlap between those interests: newspaper advertising helped make “Koorda Sausages” known across Western Australia. It is a local business story with an unusually direct route from farm to publicity. His district association rests on landholding and commercial promotion, while his broader career ranged across newspapers and other ventures.
