Download coordinates as: Gowrie Junction is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.

[10] Prior to this, Anglican services had been held in the home of George Downs, who was largely responsible for establishing the church.

[11] George King (owner of the Gowrie pastoral station) was one of its lay readers; his wife donated its organ.

[13] In January 1896, Mr John Fahy of the hotel called for tenders to erect a wooden hall in Gowrie Junction.

The residents of Gowrie Junction funded and built the town recreational hall by themselves, largely through the efforts of the local progress association.

He probably stayed with his newly married sister, Sophia, whose husband August Bischof had a farm at Gowrie Junction.

One of his pupils was a girl who became Sister Elizabeth Kenny, famous advocate of a non-chemical treatment of poliomyelitis.