CADOUX

Located 47 kilometres east of Wongan Hills. It is barely more than a wheat bin and a few houses but it has one of the largest recreation facilities around for a town its size.

The name originally suggested for the town was Cado after the farmer who had once owned the land the first railway siding was built on in 1927.

It turned out that the farmer’s name was in fact Donald Cadoux and he was French-Canadian. He had settled in the area in 1909.

Donald enlisted in the Australian army and had died in the fighting at Gallipoli and the naming of the town after him was thought to be a fitting memorial.

The town site was gazetted in 1929. It was badly damaged during an earthquake in 1979.