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Don't miss UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 These include ships outbound from Canadian ports of departure! Start your journey with a Free Trial to
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* Search for ancestors in Newspapers 1690-1980  , Historical Books 1801 - 1900, Historical Documents 1789 - 1980, America's Obituaries 1977 to current, and Social Security Death Index 1937 to current
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SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS TO CANADA
Questions Asked on Canadian Passenger Lists
Finding Ancestors on Canadian Passenger Lists
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| Start your ancestor search with Canadian Passenger Lists online, Passengers & Immigration Help, What's available in Canadian immigration before 1865, or Finding Ships Passenger Lists to Canada |
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Canadian Passenger Lists After 1865 |
There are no comprehensive ships passenger 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.
Start with Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger Lists to Canada before 1865
Immigration Projects Online
* Return of Irish Catholic (Counties Wexford & Carlow) families who Sailed from New Ross to Upper Eastern Canada in 1817
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Alms House Admission Foreigners & Nativity Records with Ships Names 1819 - 1840 (New York City, New York) includes individuals who had sailed into Canada first
* Ships passenger lists for Peter Robinson Settlers sailing 1825 Ireland to Canada Final settlement took place in Peterborough Ontario
* 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 The 1831-1865 records are not online but can be consulted at the Ontario Archives
* 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
* Index of Names of Emigrants from the 1845-1847 Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal
* Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal, 1823-1845 Full details [$]
* Emigration Agent Returns of Emigrant Orphans, 1847 [$]
* 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-Île - 33,026 immigrants whose names appear in surviving records of the Grosse-Île 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
* Index to Miscellaneous Immigrants to Canada Before 1865 A number of lists have been indexed by name in this database. Many of the records relate to immigrants from the British Isles to Quebec and Ontario, but there are also references to settlers in other provinces. The database also includes other types of records such as declarations of aliens and names of some Irish orphans.
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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 OR use the Ancestry.com searchable index for Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
Start with Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger Lists to Canada after 1865
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. However the images are searchable at Ancestry.com! Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
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UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 These include ships outbound from Canadian ports of departure!
* 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 Government Returns – Canadian Immigration Service 1926 & 1927 Passenger List Questions
1. Line Number
2. Family Name, Given Name
3. Relationship
4. Age: Female
5. Age: Male
6. Status: [Single, Married, Widowed, or Divorced]
7. Country and Place of Birth
8. Nationality: Country of Which a Citizen or Subject
9. Race or People
10. If In Canada Before: Between What Period
11. At What Address
12. Ever Refused Entry to or Deported from Canada?
13. Do you intend to reside permanently in Canada?
14. Can you Read?
15. What Language
16. By Whom was Passage paid
17. Line Number (repeat of #1)
18. Occupation: What Trade or Occupation did you follow in your own Country?
19. What Trade or Occupation do you intend to follow in Canada?
20. Destination: If destined to Relative, Friends or Employer, State which and Given name and full address. If not joining any person in Canada, give the address in Canada to which you are going.
21. Given Name, Relationship and Address of your nearest relative in the Country from which you came. If a wife or children are to follow you to Canada, give names and ages.
22. Have you or any of your family ever been: Mentally Defective
23. Physically Defective
24. Tubercular
25. Passport: Number, Place and Date of Issue
26. Money in Possession Belonging to Passenger
27. Travelling Inland On
28. Action Taken and Civil Examiner
Transcribed and submitted by Annette Fulford
Also see Canadian Passenger Lists Questions 1911-1919 & Form 30A (circa 1921-1924 but as early as
1919)
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