<P> The name of Canberra was eventually settled upon . At midday on 12 March 1913, the city was officially given this name by Lady Denman, at a ceremony on Kurrajong Hill (now known as Capital Hill). This historic occasion was officiated over by the Australian Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher . The city now commemorates the event as "Canberra Day" each year, always on the second Monday of March . </P> <P> The name Canberra was given to the planned city as the central area was in the parish of Canberra . The area originally had been in the parish of Queanbeyan, but in 1850 a separate parish was established with St John the Baptist being the parish church . According to church records, land was purchased from the Campbell property to build the church and establish a 100 - acre (40 ha) glebe . The parsonage was "Canberry Cottage", the rented original building on the adjacent property called Acton but originally called Canberry from 1825 until 1843 . The flat land on either side of the Molonglo River near the church was referred to as the Canberry Plain while the road south went over a ford called Church Crossing . To the south of the plain was Canberra Hill, now Red Hill . Finally by 1865 the location of St Johns Church started to be spelt Canberra by the rector, Pierce Galliard Smith, against the wishes of Robert Campbell the original owner of the land on which the church was built, and who provided much of the financial cost for constructing the church and adjacent school house . </P> <P> However, substantive information on the reason for the original choice of the name Canberry, or why the spelling changed, is non-existent . The dispute over the derivation has been going on for over a hundred years without resolution . It has been the subject of numerous contradictory learned academic papers, and letters / articles in the press . </P> <P> There are numerous unsubstantiated theories put forward for the derivation of the name for the riverside property "Canberry Station" from English sources . First, it was due to the profusion of the wild raspberry bushes growing there . Second, the raspberry bushes were actually Cranberry bushes . Third, a St. John's church history said the church location was named after the district of Canbury in Kingston upon Thames in England, while other sources suggest Canberry in north London and Canbury in Kent . There is also a theory the original intention was to name it Camberry after the River Cam, and Cambridge where the original owner came from . </P>

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