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SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS * Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in Ports of Arrival U.S.A. | Canada | Australia & New Zealand | South Africa | England * Find Ancestors on Ships Passenger Lists Outbound from USA & Canada * Find Ancestors on Ships Passenger Lists by Year of Arrival Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1800 to 1820 Finding Ancestors on Canadian Passenger Lists 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 Canadian Passenger Lists Before 1865 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 * 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. 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 * 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 Search Tip - English or Irish ancestors to Canada might be found in U.K. Directories, 1680-1830, Irish Flax Growers List, 1796 or Irish Records Index, 1500-1920  FREE access to Ships' Passenger Lists on Ancestry.com - Find your Immigrant Ancestors! No credit card required NEW! Request a search for your ancestor in the following Books of Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists Records from my personal collection. These Canadian immigration records are not online. [BOOK 1] Names of Emigrants 1845-1847. Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal (Quebec Canada) [BOOKS 2-4] Canada Company Remittance Books 1843-1847 in 3 Volumes. [BOOK 5] Index of Passengers Who Emigrated to Canada between 1817 and 1849. Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1801 The Dove From Scotland, to Pictou, Nova Scotia Canada in 1801 The Dove Scotland to Pictou, Nova Scotia Canada 1801 The Sarah 1801 From Scotland, destination Canada The Sarah Scotland to Pictou Nova Scotia 1801 Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1803 Commerce August 10, 1803 , bound to Pictou Nova Scotia from Perthshire Polly 1803 *Reconstructed passenger list (Selkirk Settlers Identified from Past and present of P.E.I. Canada, Skye, and Hebridean Pioneers) The PollyScotland to PEI 1803 Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1804 The Oughton Scotland to Pictou Nova Scotia, Canada 1804 Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1806 Rambler Tobermory Great Britain to PEI Canada 1806 Elizabeth & Ann Thurso N. Britain to PEI Canada 1806 The Spencer Scotland to PEI Canada 1806 Rambler from Tobermory, Scotland, to Nova Scotia in 1806. Elizabeth and Ann to Pictou in 1806. The Humphreys Tobermory N. Britain to PEI Canada 1806 The Isle of Skye Aberdeen Scotland to PEI Canada 1806 Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1808 Clarendon 1808 Tobermory N. Britain to Charlottetown PEI Canada Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1813 Prince of Wales Scotland to Hudson Bay, Canada 1813 Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1814  Officers, Seamen and Marines of His Majesty's Fleet on Lake Ontario, killed and wounded at Oswego on 6 May 1814 on Ship Prince Regent & Ship Princess Charlotte Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1815 Prince of Wales Scotland to Hudson Bay, Canada 1815   Favourite sailed from Glasgow October 22nd 1815 to St. John NB Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1817 The Valiant Hull, Yorkshire Eng. to PEI Canada, 1817  Two Brothers Wales to Nova Scotia Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1818 Immigrants to Quebec 1818 RECORD OF CANADIAN SHIPPING 1786-1920 - The Frederick W. Wallace Ship Lists Searchable database You may wish to join CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865. This is a mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding ship passenger lists, immigration records, naturalization records and ships' lists substitutes for immigration to Canada before 1865. To subscribe send "subscribe" to can-shipslists-pre1865-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or can-shipslists-pre1865-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode)." More information can be found on the Rootsweb CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865 page. Look for ancestors in ships passenger lists arriving in Canada: 1400-1800 | 1800-1820 | 1820-1850 | 1850-1864 | 1865-present Search Ships Passenger Lists to New Brunswick | to Nova Scotia | to Quebec Ontario Immigration (Peter Robinson Settlement, Kingston Emigrant Records, Hawke Papers) | Canada-U.S. border crossing records (Saint Albans Lists) | J.J. Cooke Shipping Agent Records | Filling in the Gaps 1850-1857

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