[[File:Brunswick street fitzroy looking south in 1906.jpg|thumb|Looking south down Brunswick Street in 1906]]
===Pre-settlement history===
The area that is now known as Fitzroy and Collingwood iswas part of the territory of the country of the [[Woiwurrung]] people of the [[Kulin nation]]. The area that is now known as Fitzroy was the land of the Wurundjeri people.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2002|title=Snapshots of Aboriginal Fitzroy|url=https://aboriginalhistoryofyarra.com.au/SnapshotsofAboriginalFitzroy.pdf|website=Aboriginal History of Yarra}}</ref> The [[Kulin languages|Kulin]] name recorded for the Fitzroy area is Ngár-go, meaning "high ground", which was recorded by anthropologist [[Alfred William Howitt]] in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite web | title=The forgotten Aboriginal names for 10 of Melbourne's suburbs | website=ABC News| publisher= [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] | date=9 July 2018 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-10/the-aboriginal-names-for-ten-melbourne-suburbs/9960092 | access-date=1 August 2022}}</ref> In light of its significance to Aboriginal people, the name has been revived in a 2021 project called Yalinguth (meaning "yesterday").<ref name="Yalinguth">{{cite web | title=Yalinguth | website=Yalinguth | url=https://www.yalinguth.com.au/about | access-date=1 August 2022}}</ref>
