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Did you know that Immigration means To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native and that Emigration means To leave one country or region to settle in another
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Canadian Passenger Lists After 1865 |
There are no comprehensive lists of immigrants arriving in
Canada prior to 1865. Until that year, shipping companies
were not required by the government to keep their passenger
manifests.
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Immigration Projects Online
* Return of Irish Catholic ( Counties Wexford & Carlow) families who Sailed from New Ross to Upper Eastern Canada in 1817
* Ships passenger lists for Peter Robinson Settlers sailing 1825 Ireland to Canada
* St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records 1819-1836
* The Hawke Papers, letterbooks of Chief Emigrant Agent
Anthony B. Hawke are available at the Archives of
Ontario from 1831 to 1892. Search the
searchable database 1865 - 1883
* Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents with sailings from
Londonderry Ireland to Quebec and St. John New Brunswick from 1847
to 1871.
* People from the Fitzwilliam estate in Ireland who settled in Ontario, 1847-1855 Settlement in East half of Ontario
*A Story of Emigration: Southwest Wicklow (Ireland) to Ontario 1840s Settlement in West half of Ontario
* Names of Emigrants from the 1845-1847 Records of James
Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal
* Filling in the Gaps: Partial Ships Passenger Lists 1850-1855 Names of Individuals in the New York Almshouse who arrived in Canada before going on to New York (includes name of ship, date of arrival and more)
* Return of Emigrants Landed at the Port of Kingston Ontario, Canada 1861-1882 gives the final
destination of the individuals, their date of arrival at
Kingston and more.
* Petworth Immigrants 1832-1837
* Emigrants from England in New York City Almshouse 1818-1830 - 254 names of English immigrants to Canada & USA including
the name of the ship they sailed on
* Irish Immigrants at Grosse-Īle - 33,026 immigrants whose names appear in surviving records of the Grosse-Īle Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937.
* Search most ships lists on the Internet going to
Canada and the online InGeneas databases for immigration to Canada 1800s
* Saint John New Brunswick Customs House Passenger Lists 1815, 1832, 1833-1834 & 1837-1838 - the only known surviving lists from this time period. Most of the Customs House records were lost in
1877 in the Great Fire of Saint John. Famine lists from 1845-1850 appear also to have been lost.
* Colonial Archives Database contains over 70,000 detailed descriptions of documents in the archival collection mainly of the British and French colonial periods. Search Tip from Lorine: Use French keyword "passagers" to virew the 526 entries re passengers to New France, Louisiana etc. Note that the records are NOT duplicated in both English & French. For eg. "passengers" gives 89 hits only
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The National Archives of Canada (NAC) holds unindexed immigration records from 1865 to 1935. To find a passenger you will need to
know an exact date of arrival.
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Immigration Projects Online
* Library and Archives Canada has digitized Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865 - 1922 as part of their new Moving Here, Staying Here online exhibition. They are not searchable by passenger name, you must have a precise date of immigration or be prepared to browse through all the images.
* Passenger lists for Ships to Canada after 1865
* Passenger Lists 1925-1935 indexed and online at ArchiviaNet
* Home Children (1869-1930) database indexes from ships
passenger lists
* Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents with sailings from
Londonderry Ireland to Quebec and St. John New Brunswick from 1847
to 1871
* Nanaimo Family History Society has a Passenger List Indexing Project for 1900-1921
* Search engines to search online free databases on multiple websites for ships to Canada
* The Ontario Archives has an index to the assisted
immigration registers created by the Toronto Emigrant
Office between 1865 and 1883. Over 29,000 entries have been
transcribed from the registers.
* Search Canada-U.S. border crossing records (Saint Albans Lists) 1895-1956
* AHSGR Ship and Immigration Records Ships to New Brunswick, Halifax Nova Scotia and Quebec 1900-1914
* Manifest Markings on Canadian Passenger Lists
* Canadian Passenger Lists Questions 1911-1919
* Canadian Passenger Lists Questions 1926-1927
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Canadian Passenger Lists Questions 1911-1919
1. No. of Passengers: [Line #]
2. No. of S.S. Contract Ticket:
3. Amount of Cash:
4. Name in Full:
5. Age of Adults/Male:
6. Age of Adults/Female:
7. Children Under 14 Years/Male:
8. Children Under 14 Years/Female:
9. Married, Single, or Widowed:
10. Have you ever been in Canada before?
11. If So/When:
12. If So/Where:
13. If So/How Long:
14. Do You Intend To Permanently Reside in Canada?
15. Are You Able to Read?
16. Are You Able to Write?
17. Country of Birth:
18. No. of Passengers: [Line #]
19. Race of People:
20. Destination/Post Office:
21. Destination/Province:
22. What Was Your Occupation In Country From Which You Came:
23. What Is Your Intended Occupation In Canada:
24. Have you ever worked as farmer, farm labourer, gardener, stableman, carter, Ry [railway] surfaceman, ______ or miner?
25. If So/Which:
26. If So/How Long:
27. If So/When:
28. Religious Denomination:
29. Travelled Inland On:
30. Initials of Civil Examiner:
31. No. Of Passengers: [Line #]
Transcribed and submitted by Annette Fulford
Also see Canadian Passenger Lists Questions 1926-1927 & Form 30A (circa 1921-1924 but as early as
1919)
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