At the time approximately 2000 Chinese and 700 European migrants were living in the Buckland area.

They face increasing employment competition from Eastern European migrants.

European migrants lived in the area as early as 1850, with timber logging commencing in around 1870.

Large extra-European cities gather large concentrations of European migrants, among others.

Many were European or Asian migrants seeking fortune on the goldfields.

Nearly half the workers had been European migrants, some of whom had returned to their homelands.

Many of these European migrants intermarried with local mestizos and some assimilated with the indigenous population.

However by the 1850s he had become concerned at illegal settlement by European migrants on traditional lands.

The town has also enjoyed a wave of migration of European migrants who have added to the towns growth and culture.

Hepburn Township was settled by three distinct groups of European migrants.