FORMER SECTION Q COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL SITE

The site is first mapped as Allotment 14, 15 and 16 of Section Q on the 1857 Revised Town Plan of Main Street and shows all structures as occupied. Throughout the 1870s and 1880 premises were fronting Main Street, and to the east of Little Dodd Street, an 1880s Chinese Camp is mapped. Although -1m are shown in the Ballarat DEM, excavations on the Canadian Channel show up to 3m of artefact rich fill to the north of the site.  

The site is of historical and archaeological significance. 

The site is of historical significance as the location of an early commercial premises, including an Auctioneer during the years of the Victorian gold rush. The later nineteenth century shows the development and likely expansion of the site into a site of Chinese commercial/ residential occupation. The site has a known association with the early Chinese community of Ballarat. The site is of archaeological significance due to its potential to contain artefacts, deposits and features that relate to the establishment of commercial operations in the gold rush, and later 19th-century activities.