Joyner

Joyner is a suburb in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia.

Joyner is a suburb in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Brisbane metropolitan area. In the 2016 census, Joyner had a population of 2,833 people.

Prior to European settlement the Joyner area and beyond was occupied by the Aboriginal Turbal tribe who survived by hunting and gathering.

William Joyner, from Berkeley, Gloucester, England, arrived in Sydney in 1841, and in 1844 set out with a friend named Mason in a bullock dray, heading north to look for grazing land. He eventually selected 400 square miles south of the North Pine River. That land includes the present day locality of Joyner. William Joyner established the station "Samson Vale" in 1845. A thriving rural community developed thereafter in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

After the pioneering era, the area we now call Joyner, came into contact with several thousand American and Australian troops stationed in the locality to train and prepare, before being sent north to fight the Japanese in the Pacific during WW2.

The next most notable historical event was the establishment of the North Pine Dam, which dislocated farming activities, starting with surveying of the future impoundment in the fifties, and ending when Lake Samsonvale was filled in 1975 flooding numerous farms. This event all but destroyed a thriving rural community that had existed for over 100 years in the North Pine River valley.

In the 2011 census, Joyner had a population of 2,766 people.