The Catalan migrants settled in different parts of Australia,
depending on the work that was available. Many of them went to North Queensland
to work in the sugar cane industry and little by little they started their own
businesses. This is the case of Bruno Tapiolas, Josep Pla and an extense group
of men from Vila-Seca. Some of them stayed up north but the big majority moved
to Melbourne, where they worked in restaurants, vegetable markets or fish &
chip shops. Others exported cork, like the San Miguels, or wine, like the
Codinas. In Western Australia there was a concentration of Catalan priests in
New Norcia, a Benedictine community founded in 1846 by Fray Rosendo Salvado (a
Galician) and Josep Maria Benito Serra, the latter of Catalan origin.