The Canterbury Club
Dates
- Existence: 1872 - Present
Biography
The Canterbury Club was established in 1872. Its premises, on the corner of Worcester Street and Cambridge Terrace, were built and opened in 1874.
The Club began as a result of a meeting of a group of prominent Christchurch
business and professional men, on 12 June 1872, who felt it desirable to establish a second gentlemen’s establishment less socially exclusive and pastoral dominated that the earlier established Christchurch Club. It was inaugurated on 31 July 1872 as a joint stock limited liability company when 151 gentlemen, deemed the original
members, took out an allocated 400 shares. The inaugural dinner of the Club in its
newly completed premises took place on 23 October 1874.
In late 1885 the affairs of the Canterbury Club Company Limited were wound up and
its assets transferred to the Club.