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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Megan Doherty

The fascinating life of Canberra's canny Dawn Waterhouse

Dawn Waterhouse at the Wesley Centre last week. Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong

Dawn Waterhouse is a fascinating person, for all sorts of reasons.

She was born Allison Dawn Calthorpe in 1923 and grew up in what is now known as Calthorpes' House on Mugga Way in Red Hill, a house, completed in 1927, that has become a museum, its way of life frozen in life for the generations who came after to understand the early days of Canberra.

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