Eileen McCarley and Brian, Mary and Toby Grahame with Mary
A Canberra family celebrated over 200 combined years of contribution to the city when they joined with almost 300 other long-time residents to receive their Gold Awards in a recent ceremony at Rydges Lakeside.
One of the oldest recipients was Eileen McCarley who was born in the Queanbeyan hospital in 1924. There was no hospital in Canberra at the time of her birth.
Eileen's family's association with the Nation's capital had begun in 1923 when her father, Arthur Staples, came to Canberra to work on the construction of the provisional Parliament House.
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