Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "City of Stirling" in English language version.
Early on the morning of October 28, 1834, Stirling and 24 troops cornered about 80 men, women and children in their camp on the river and opened fire from both banks.
The City is named after Western Australia's first governor Sir James Stirling, who instigated one of the state's bloodiest massacres almost 200 years ago.
Stirling's direction of an 1834 massacre in Pinjarra, south of Perth, means we cannot honour him. Doing so dishonours those killed in that massacre, and its survivors, as well as their descendants.