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The Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management's Commissioner of Public Records Collection has records of black immigration and settlement in Nova Scotia from 1783 to 1839. Search BosaNova for more details.
The National Archives of Canada holds microfilm copies of the passenger manifests of ships arriving at the following ports of entry:
Halifax (Nova-Scotia) : 1881 - 1935
North Sydney (Nova-Scotia) : 1906 - 1935 These lists include mostly ferry arrivals from Newfoundland and St-Pierre et Miquelon, with a few passengers in transit from other countries.
An index exists for arrivals at Halifax from January 1881 to February 1882 on NAC microfilm reel C-15712.
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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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