Waterford, Western Australia

Waterford is a small riverside suburb of Perth, the state capital of Western Australia. Its local government area is the City of South Perth.Waterford is situated on the Canning River.HistoryOriginally part of the suburb of Karawara, the area south of Manning Road was renamed Waterford in the 1980s.The area is named after the birthplace in Ireland of Edmund Rice, the founder of the Christian Brothers. From 1901, the Christian Brothers were allocated land for the Clontarf Orphanage, a school and farm for orphaned and disadvantaged boys, situated on 2 square kilometres of land south of Manning Road and along the shores of the Canning River. The College is now known as the "Clontarf Aboriginal College" and is governed by a representative Board of Management which is responsible to the Catholic Archbishop of Perth through the Director of Catholic Education of Western Australia. The day-to-day running of Clontarf Aboriginal College, including the hiring of all staff and the enrolment of students, is the responsibility of the College Principal.