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Take this down!!!!! Look at the war you've started in the comments with the way you titled this video!!! I'm upset to see alot of ignorant racist living amongst me in my country out here !!! Disgusting people, this is TRASH. And the fundraiser is going towards more white people. Better be helping the black refugees outta Ukraine!!! 🙄
Kiwi here :D we used to have an incredible TV show where regular guys had to follow the trails the original explorers took to find places for European settlement in New Zealand. They were ONLY allowed to wear the clothes and carry the supplies etc that the original explorers had :o It was freaking amazing!!!! They struggled so much even though they had the maps by that point. It would have been soooo incredibly difficult (and dangerous, and terrifying) being an explorer back then and having no idea what you were walking into or how you would get back out again. Freaking amazing show, wish I could remember what it was called :) Edit; Xplore Aotearoa replied to me with the name if anyone is interested in trying to find it, it's called First Crossings ^_^
MATE you have just awoken the oldest tv memories I have ever had, I watched First Crossings when I was young and it was sooo awesome. Thanks for reminding me of it.
This is awesome , I was born and still live in Christchurch , we learnt about the 4 aves in school in the 70s , I love my city , thank you so much for covering our garden city
Very interesting and educational video about Christchurch in my home country of New Zealand! I found this video very informative and enlightening! Great job indeed 👏
Likewise! I often feel quite embarrassed by my lack of knowledge regarding the history of the beautiful country that is not only my country of birth but the only place in which I have resided. Have always and always will be fiercely proud to be a kiwi 🌞😁
The cardboard cathedral is still here. The original one just now started rebuilding. I'm sad container mall has gone it showed kiwi resilience and ingenuity
1 September 1888, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.0-7.3 struck the district of North Canterbury. Victorian settlers: Let's build another city here. Modern day settlers: Let's build another city here.
My great great grandfather Andrew Brown brought his family ( wife and 3 daughters) from England to Christchurch in 1854 aboard the Royal Stuart. They moved to Kapiti Island setting up a general store for whalers.
2223, lol thats my late Mums grandfather John O’Neil Tony is referring too. He was a proprietor or owner of several pubs in Christchurch including the one in Geraldine. Great to hear thanks. Laurie 😅😅😊😊
I always associated Riccarton with the shopping centre and the McDonalds (and also Georgie Pie, but McDonalds put an end to that), so I never knew about the hidden park. My family moved to the States when I was 11 (I'm in my 30s now) and I would love to go back someday, though I'm sure the city is barely recognisable now
It is very recognisable. The CBD is about 50% different as only about half the original buildings remain but outside the CBD most of the residential areas are the same
As a Prebble, a direct relative of the founders of Prebbleton, I’m proud of our history, and I will not be forced to say otherwise, human history is a darwinistic one, if you couldn’t defend yourself or your land, it was no longer yours, their was no international law, no human rights, no United Nations back then, the Māori new that, they had plenty of inter fighting and whoever was more powerful got more land, we can’t put the western morals of 2024 unto our ancestors on both sides, that’s why we’re a multicultural society that’s why immigration is good because no one race owns any land, people will complain about the British well simultaneously subscribe to western ideas of ownership over land
Great video. But the thumbnail is not quite correct. The Deans may have been Scottish, but Christchurch/Canterbury was not founded until 1850 by English Anglicans, two years after Dunedin, the first Scottish settlement in NZ, founded by Scottish Presbyterians.
From an old-er lady living near Seattle, Wash. U.S.A., you are having way too much fun and getting to see so much wonderful history. I demand that you take me with you on your next adventure. Just send me the money for air fair and I will be there. Thank You.
My father's side were on the first Settler ship to NZ, being Scottish Vikings, they despised the English,and quite often kicked the shit out of a lot of them.
Oh no! First l was upset because you were in my city and l had no idea you were here, then you showed some of our lovely buildings pre quakes and l had a bit of a cry. The people next to me at my campsite now think l'm a lunatic.
@@melanieortiz712 Bruh, its sad Melanie. Breaks my heart actually, and infuriates me. I know there's a time and place for everything, but it seems its never the time or place to actually acknowledge and reflect on the pain and sufferings endured by peoples whos lands, cultures, and communities were invaded and damnear destroyed. People can label me a troll or whatever they want. I'll be a troll for another 400+ years if need be. _"Cape Malay" / "Cape Coloured"_ from Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 #TheCapeOfStorms 🌊 #TheCapeColony ⛓️
@@johndoeiii9767 feeling ya, Native American woman. Never be silent about the illegal occupation of the Americas or other Indigenous people around the world by colonizers. Truth for far too long been kept in the corner.
He’s literally telling the founding of Christchurch ya dope, sorry Māori had 600 odd years to do something but only managed to enslave eachother and kill off the two most magnificent animals in nz
talking about history of NZ a new video "Poukawa Revisited" showing NZ was anciently occupied 7000 -10,000 years ago with radiocarbon dating records that have been kept from the public for the last 50 years. well worth watching!
you do know that the idea of someone owning land based on race is a social construct and doesn’t exist, the idea of stolen land is a European one, the Māori weren’t one group of people jsut because they had the same skin colour like all of humanity, they enslaved cannibalised and hated one another, they colonised eachothers territory, history was about whoever could had the most superior war tactics won, their was no United Nations, their was no moral or international law saying this is right and wrong, I don’t know why only Europeans were supposed to know what’s morally wrong in 2024 200 odd years where as everyone else who has benefited from “injustices” of their ancestors (so every single human) just gets away with it well also being able to somehow be the victim in it all, nothing more European than created universal morals only to be the only one held up to it
For anyone complaining about this, you do know that the idea of someone owning land based on race is a social construct and doesn’t exist, the idea of stolen land is a European one, the Māori weren’t one group of people jsut because they had the same skin colour like all of humanity, they enslaved cannibalised and hated one another, they colonised eachothers territory, history was about whoever could had the most superior war tactics won, their was no United Nations, their was no moral or international law saying this is right and wrong, I don’t know why only Europeans were supposed to know what’s morally wrong in 2024 200 odd years where as everyone else who has benefited from “injustices” of their ancestors (so every single human) just gets away with it well also being able to somehow be the victim in it all, nothing more European than created universal morals only to be the only one held up to it
This is why we are a multicultural society because white people don’t own the land, New Zealanders do although given 1/10 the competence the Māori people would’ve made this land their own supremacist state till the bitter end
I scanned about half the comments. I appear to be the only poster who found the presenter to be hyperactive and wildly overenthusiastic. I enjoyed the video in spite of him, not because of him.
The Māoris wiped out the Polynesians and before that the Melanesians an who knows what was before them. So before you get on your high horse waffling on about colonisation. Do a bit of research yourself. Oh btw it’s not called New Zealand either. It’s called Aotearoa.
@@melanieortiz712 You need both an English and a History lesson. It’s Māori. Colonisation is how humans spread and multiplied and bred to become different species of human. It will never stop. The Chinese and Taiwan,The Russians and Ukraine. The Oligarchs and everything they can get there hands on.
That’s not how the world works? What tribes exactly you weren’t a unified nation you were tribes who enslaved, hated and killed one another, theirs no such thing as someone owning land based on race, your ancestors would’ve of colonised land from someone else 100s of times it’s just you didn’t have the technology or knowledge to record it in history
@@danrobinson1729 what war. White people lie and make promises they never intended to keep. You're also ignorant of the Doctrine of Christian discovery.
Fuck no. If it was not for the British the Māori would have killed each other. Or they would have starved. It was not garden of eden pre Europeans. It was a Stone Age culture that had no wheel no iron tools. Māori begged the British to bring law and order to nz. That is why the ceded to the rule of the British. Oh. There is no Māori in nz. Maybe the most Māori has 20% Maori linage
Every time I think of Christchurch I'm always naturally drawn to Girrafes. Especially if I'm being payed by the council. Then I simply reduce my major work and repeat it ad nauseum and pass it off as detail. But then ,why not? Plenty of other talentless wankers cashing in and if you're challenged on relevance, just say "the kids love it".
Kai Tahu we're decimated by Ngati Toa during the musket wars. Mostly lived on Banks Peninsula and North of Christchurch. Where the city is now is based on reclaimed swamp and to the East, sand dunes. Hence the devestation of the quakes. Kai Tahu didn't live there but did have fishing grounds that to this day are respected.
NEW ZEALAND was NOT a country when the Europeans first came, just a land of a bunch of independent tribes who fought each other. Europeans made this a country. There is NOTHING in the treaty about Partnership and it was NOT maori who used aotearoa. There are NO principles in the treaty.
My Great Grand Father a Bruce arrived in New Zealand from Scotland in 1923 and settled in Christchurch marrying my Great Grand Mother who was a Māori woman of the South Island Ngai Tahu Iwi (Tribe).
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Take this down!!!!! Look at the war you've started in the comments with the way you titled this video!!! I'm upset to see alot of ignorant racist living amongst me in my country out here !!! Disgusting people, this is TRASH. And the fundraiser is going towards more white people. Better be helping the black refugees outta Ukraine!!! 🙄
Kiwi here :D we used to have an incredible TV show where regular guys had to follow the trails the original explorers took to find places for European settlement in New Zealand. They were ONLY allowed to wear the clothes and carry the supplies etc that the original explorers had :o It was freaking amazing!!!! They struggled so much even though they had the maps by that point. It would have been soooo incredibly difficult (and dangerous, and terrifying) being an explorer back then and having no idea what you were walking into or how you would get back out again. Freaking amazing show, wish I could remember what it was called :)
Edit; Xplore Aotearoa replied to me with the name if anyone is interested in trying to find it, it's called First Crossings ^_^
It was called First Crossings. :)
@@JakeRanginui - thank you I couldn't remember the name!! I will edit that into my comment in case anyone else wants to try to find it ^_^
Keep an eye out for it. Every once in a while it pops up back on TV. Sadly usually at fairly inconvenient viewing times. Great programme.
It looks like the channel Wonder has it. Gonna watch that next! 👍🏼
MATE you have just awoken the oldest tv memories I have ever had, I watched First Crossings when I was young and it was sooo awesome. Thanks for reminding me of it.
This is awesome , I was born and still live in Christchurch , we learnt about the 4 aves in school in the 70s , I love my city , thank you so much for covering our garden city
I'm born and raised in Christchurch nz was so surprised to see this video thanks so much !!
I’d be happy to have 1/5th of this man’s energy
I love Tony. He really makes watching these videos and learning the history of all these places so much fun.
This is really cool. Tony is a great story teller.
Very interesting and educational video about Christchurch in my home country of New Zealand! I found this video very informative and enlightening! Great job indeed 👏
Likewise! I often feel quite embarrassed by my lack of knowledge regarding the history of the beautiful country that is not only my country of birth but the only place in which I have resided. Have always and always will be fiercely proud to be a kiwi 🌞😁
I had no idea my home city had a forest in the middle of it..... No lies, this is all new to me
It's called Dean's Bush and is an absolutely lovely place to walk around. Make sure to visit it. It's well worth it.
Heehehe
Just a wee walk from Riccarton Mall
You really need to get out more.
Stop drinking and smart phoning your way through life then.
The cardboard cathedral is still here. The original one just now started rebuilding. I'm sad container mall has gone it showed kiwi resilience and ingenuity
this was so good thank u!
*Absolute History apsolute in New Zealand history appreciate your videos Listening from Mass USA TYVM 💙*
This is so underrated amazing job!
Thanks! I got to know better about the city I live in 😮
Excellent channel.
1 September 1888, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.0-7.3 struck the district of North Canterbury.
Victorian settlers:
Let's build another city here.
Modern day settlers:
Let's build another city here.
Did you know that a moa was not a "big flappy thing"! It was a large flightless, now extinct, bird with only vestigial wings ...
@@KiwiKool I'd be amazed too as no such photo exists.
The 9 species of Moa were the only known birds to be completely wingless. They didn't even have vestigial wings
My great great grandfather Andrew Brown brought his family ( wife and 3 daughters) from England to Christchurch in 1854 aboard the Royal Stuart. They moved to Kapiti Island setting up a general store for whalers.
Interesting video
Wtf did I miss Tony walking by my house on his way to deans bush?!
What year was this recorded?? So much has changed.
Way before covid 19, obviously😅
A sign said apartments coming in 2011 or something like that. So I'm guessing a while ago.
Holy Smokes this was a great episode.
Good on ya mate 👍
Would of so loved to meet Tony Robertson. I watch all his shows
2223, lol thats my late Mums grandfather John O’Neil Tony is referring too. He was a proprietor or owner of several pubs in Christchurch including the one in Geraldine. Great to hear thanks. Laurie 😅😅😊😊
I always associated Riccarton with the shopping centre and the McDonalds (and also Georgie Pie, but McDonalds put an end to that), so I never knew about the hidden park. My family moved to the States when I was 11 (I'm in my 30s now) and I would love to go back someday, though I'm sure the city is barely recognisable now
It is very recognisable. The CBD is about 50% different as only about half the original buildings remain but outside the CBD most of the residential areas are the same
I always thought that the Mowry People settled "New Zealand" 😆😉
Tia and Tamera? 😜
@@ashleelarsen5002 🤣🤣🤣👍awesome! It took me a couple of seconds, but then........pow! Nice one!
@@coolnegative thank you, (there is no bowing emoji) 🤟
Maori, yes
@@michelepascoe6068 autocorrect.......ya know.
As a Prebble, a direct relative of the founders of Prebbleton, I’m proud of our history, and I will not be forced to say otherwise, human history is a darwinistic one, if you couldn’t defend yourself or your land, it was no longer yours, their was no international law, no human rights, no United Nations back then, the Māori new that, they had plenty of inter fighting and whoever was more powerful got more land, we can’t put the western morals of 2024 unto our ancestors on both sides, that’s why we’re a multicultural society that’s why immigration is good because no one race owns any land, people will complain about the British well simultaneously subscribe to western ideas of ownership over land
Anyone know when this was filmed?
deffo a fair few years ago I went over in 2020 and it was a lot more reconstructed that it is in this.
Quite a long time ago. The cardboard cathedral has been complete for some years and the container mall is gone
This episode aired in 2013, and construction of the cardboard cathedral started mid 2012, so somewhere between those dates.
Great video. But the thumbnail is not quite correct. The Deans may have been Scottish, but Christchurch/Canterbury was not founded until 1850 by English Anglicans, two years after Dunedin, the first Scottish settlement in NZ, founded by Scottish Presbyterians.
Tony, please, visit South America in order to see magnificent buildings.
Dunedin- the Edinburgh of the South. Co-founded by a nephew of Robbie Burns.
Dunedin - Ōtepoti in the South.
I hope it's open
From an old-er lady living near Seattle, Wash. U.S.A., you are having way too much fun and getting to see so much wonderful history.
I demand that you take me with you on your next adventure. Just send me the money for air fair and I will be there. Thank You.
Sounds a bit like catfishing.
Fair 🎠🎡
Fare💲✈️
👍
My father's side were on the first Settler ship to NZ, being Scottish Vikings, they despised the English,and quite often kicked the shit out of a lot of them.
Dunedin mobsters 😂.
don't tell him they took away the container cafes :( we used to love visiting them.
Home sweet home
I'm here for my weekly dose of Vitamin T😎
Oh no! First l was upset because you were in my city and l had no idea you were here, then you showed some of our lovely buildings pre quakes and l had a bit of a cry. The people next to me at my campsite now think l'm a lunatic.
colonized*.
Fixed it for you. New Zealand was not empty when colonizers arrived.
There were a few squatters here lol
We all know where the Morioris went! In the stomachs of some certain people!
@@anonymousr1918grow up...
The Moriori were a part of the Maori migration, try reading books sometime...
🤡
It will never not be janky to see filmed footage of literally right down the road from my shitty Riccarton student flat
I thought this was _"Absolute History"?_
_"Absolutely One-sided History"_ would more accurately describe the channel's content.
Smh🤦🏽♂️
Exactly!
@@melanieortiz712
Bruh, its sad Melanie.
Breaks my heart actually, and infuriates me.
I know there's a time and place for everything, but it seems its never the time or place to actually acknowledge and reflect on the pain and sufferings endured by peoples whos lands, cultures, and communities were invaded and damnear destroyed.
People can label me a troll or whatever they want.
I'll be a troll for another 400+ years if need be.
_"Cape Malay" / "Cape Coloured"_
from Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦
#TheCapeOfStorms 🌊 #TheCapeColony ⛓️
@@johndoeiii9767 feeling ya, Native American woman. Never be silent about the illegal occupation of the Americas or other Indigenous people around the world by colonizers. Truth for far too long been kept in the corner.
He’s literally telling the founding of Christchurch ya dope, sorry Māori had 600 odd years to do something but only managed to enslave eachother and kill off the two most magnificent animals in nz
The "bog roll" cathedral eg: loo roll.
talking about history of NZ a new video "Poukawa Revisited" showing NZ was anciently occupied 7000 -10,000 years ago with radiocarbon dating records that have been kept from the public for the last 50 years. well worth watching!
you do know that the idea of someone owning land based on race is a social construct and doesn’t exist, the idea of stolen land is a European one, the Māori weren’t one group of people jsut because they had the same skin colour like all of humanity, they enslaved cannibalised and hated one another, they colonised eachothers territory, history was about whoever could had the most superior war tactics won, their was no United Nations, their was no moral or international law saying this is right and wrong, I don’t know why only Europeans were supposed to know what’s morally wrong in 2024 200 odd years where as everyone else who has benefited from “injustices” of their ancestors (so every single human) just gets away with it well also being able to somehow be the victim in it all, nothing more European than created universal morals only to be the only one held up to it
believe anything on youtube 😂
Interesting. I forgot about the earthquakes. Tragedy for the old buildings but I spring fir the redo.
Imagine if they build the city of MuhammadMosque right next door
For anyone complaining about this, you do know that the idea of someone owning land based on race is a social construct and doesn’t exist, the idea of stolen land is a European one, the Māori weren’t one group of people jsut because they had the same skin colour like all of humanity, they enslaved cannibalised and hated one another, they colonised eachothers territory, history was about whoever could had the most superior war tactics won, their was no United Nations, their was no moral or international law saying this is right and wrong, I don’t know why only Europeans were supposed to know what’s morally wrong in 2024 200 odd years where as everyone else who has benefited from “injustices” of their ancestors (so every single human) just gets away with it well also being able to somehow be the victim in it all, nothing more European than created universal morals only to be the only one held up to it
This is why we are a multicultural society because white people don’t own the land, New Zealanders do although given 1/10 the competence the Māori people would’ve made this land their own supremacist state till the bitter end
I scanned about half the comments. I appear to be the only poster who found the presenter to be hyperactive and wildly overenthusiastic. I enjoyed the video in spite of him, not because of him.
10:29 you let the globaist cat out of the bag. Either the building is so badly damaged or to make room for other buildings.
Settled no, invaded and colonized yes.
The Māoris wiped out the Polynesians and before that the Melanesians an who knows what was before them. So before you get on your high horse waffling on about colonisation. Do a bit of research yourself. Oh btw it’s not called New Zealand either. It’s called Aotearoa.
@@laughswhentickled It doesn't look any different than the others...
@@laughswhentickled you need to get off yours! By the Mori's own oral history they're apart of the Polynesian people.
@@WyrdHag very true but some people don't admit to colonizing NZ. Maori were not the first to settle NZ.
@@melanieortiz712 You need both an English and a History lesson. It’s Māori. Colonisation is how humans spread and multiplied and bred to become different species of human. It will never stop. The Chinese and Taiwan,The Russians and Ukraine. The Oligarchs and everything they can get there hands on.
bs this is maori land
That’s not how the world works? What tribes exactly you weren’t a unified nation you were tribes who enslaved, hated and killed one another, theirs no such thing as someone owning land based on race, your ancestors would’ve of colonised land from someone else 100s of times it’s just you didn’t have the technology or knowledge to record it in history
Can we see what became of the First Peoples next?
Please.
Their localities, living standards, and other withstanding legacies owed to Christendom.
Dannevirk is where Danes settled.
"Pioneers"? Colonisers
Lol win the war next time :3
@@danrobinson1729 what war. White people lie and make promises they never intended to keep. You're also ignorant of the Doctrine of Christian discovery.
I notice Australians and New Zealanders have a hard time acknowledging it but they sure love pointing it out with other countries.
@@ZenMilitia I'm not the one crying. Just here to tell truth.
@@citrusbutter7718 white people no matter where they hold illegal occupation always do.
"Eez" "Seleection" "Meexico" "Ageen" "Seecond" "Yeez"
Man, Kiwis have a way with words.
Occupied* New Zealand.
@musicmad she is a tinfoil hat wearer.
@@JakeRanginui no tinfoil. Mori where there first🤨
@@melanieortiz712 Mori? Māori...
@@melanieortiz712 no they weren't
@@Dino-pq3eu
Am I surprised that this comment section is full of pre-Māori settlement truthers?
Not at all, it's a video about Christchurch 🙄
Fuck no. If it was not for the British the Māori would have killed each other. Or they would have starved. It was not garden of eden pre Europeans. It was a Stone Age culture that had no wheel no iron tools. Māori begged the British to bring law and order to nz. That is why the ceded to the rule of the British. Oh. There is no Māori in nz. Maybe the most Māori has 20% Maori linage
Every time I think of Christchurch I'm always naturally drawn to Girrafes.
Especially if I'm being payed by the council.
Then I simply reduce my major work and repeat it ad nauseum and pass it off as detail.
But then ,why not?
Plenty of other talentless wankers cashing in and if you're challenged on relevance, just say "the kids love it".
can we stop calling colonizers “pioneers”???
Please clarify?
Do you realise Ngai Tahu came from BOP and colonised.
Then in turn were colonised by Ngati Toa.
@@anthonymorgan6255
Maori traded amicably & successfully with other peoples before the "pioneers" arrived.
Thank you for this comment savvy sav !!!! Jist what I was scrolling for
No..Can we stop calling Pioneers ''colonizers"?
Why are most of these British shows so adolescent?
Lier, I've watched doco's on him and although there is truth in his story, it didn't all go down like that
Should say The Victorian land thieves
Kai Tahu we're decimated by Ngati Toa during the musket wars.
Mostly lived on Banks Peninsula and North of Christchurch.
Where the city is now is based on reclaimed swamp and to the East, sand dunes.
Hence the devestation of the quakes.
Kai Tahu didn't live there but did have fishing grounds that to this day are respected.
@@anthonymorgan6255
Wow, I didn't know that Maori invented muskets. 😒
Back off on the racist 13:02
Really are you proud of this colonisation? 😂😂
NEW ZEALAND was NOT a country when the Europeans first came, just a land of a bunch of independent tribes who fought each other. Europeans made this a country. There is NOTHING in the treaty about Partnership and it was NOT maori who used aotearoa. There are NO principles in the treaty.
Show your sources
@@chriswhata try reading
Historical amnesia much.
Get real 🤡
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10/bruce-moon-rangiaowhia-incident.html
In other civilisations women where goddesses and queens
*colonized
My Great Grand Father a Bruce arrived in New Zealand from Scotland in 1923 and settled in Christchurch marrying my Great Grand Mother who was a Māori woman of the South Island Ngai Tahu Iwi (Tribe).
Baldrick tours Cheechtown. 😂😂😂