A city that was built by Italians what came out of Ingham and burdiken, Italians came over on the boat to Australia to Ingham and Burdekin to do the hard cane cutting work the aussies didn’t want to do, got paid big dollars to cut cane by hand, Saving the money they worked hard for and useing it to buy the cane farms off the Aussies, then sugar prices sky rocketed and they made a lot of money and invested the money in land and realestate in Townsville then land realestate sky rocketed in Townsville then they became millionaire and the rest is history. One of the most well known men to invest in Townsville who came out of Ingham was Laurence lancini.