Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children
were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child
emigration movement. Names of these Home Children found in
passenger lists at the National Archives of Canada are now searchable online
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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
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
* 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
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UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 These include ships outbound from Canadian ports of departure!
* 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
Nominal passenger list indexes for 1925 to 1935 are now searchable online at the National Archives of Canada. Also included are border entries for individuals whose surname starts with the letter C.
If you want to order filmed passenger lists (they aren't indexed!), consult the list of NAC microfilm numbers for passenger lists to Canada 1865-1922
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1865
Northcote
Porsgrunn Telemark
May 1865 to Quebec
Ships Passenger Lists to Quebec on TheShipsList.com
- Peruvian of 1865 - First Passenger List Archived by Canada
- Cap Rouge of 1865 Plymouth to Quebec
- Nova Scotian 1865 Liverpool/Londonderry to Quebec
- Nubia 1865 Londonderry to Quebec
- St Lawrence 1865 London to Quebec
- Thames 1865 London to Quebec
- United Kingdom Jun.1865 Glasgow to Quebec Anchor Line
- Ottawa Sep.1865 London & Queenstown to Quebec (inc. Norwegians) Maiden Voyage
- Ottawa Oct.1865 London to Quebec (inc. Norwegians)
- Margaret Ann 1865 Plymouth to Quebec
- George A. Philips 1865 Youghal, Ireland to Quebec
- ThamesAug..1865 London to Quebec (inc. Norwegians)
- Thames Sep.1865 London to Quebec (inc. Norwegians)
- St. Lawrence July 1865 London to Quebec (inc. Norwegians)
- St. Lawrence Sept.1865 London to St. John's, Halifax and Montreal
- St. Lawrence Nov.1865 London to Quebec (inc. Norwegians)
- Boreas 1865 Ireland to Quebec
- Medway 1869 London to Quebec
- Crocodile 1869 Portsmouth to Quebec (unemployed Admiralty Dockyard Workers)
- Lake Erie 1870 London to Quebec
- Crocodile 1870 Portsmouth to Quebec (unemployed Admiralty Dockyard Workers)
- Adalia 1872 London to Quebec via Plymouth (wrecked)
- Medway May 1872 London & Plymouth to Quebec
- Nile May 1872 London & Plymouth to Quebec
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1866
Tamworth
Skien Telemark
7 April 1866 Montreal
Inga
Kragerø Telemark
14 April 1866 to Quebec
Rinde
Kragerø Telemark
25 June 1866 to Quebec
Rjukan
Skien Telemark
??? to Quebec
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1868
Rjukan
Skien Telemark
14 June 1868 to Quebec
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1869
Names of 354 Home Children sailing from England to Canada in 1869 [NAC online database, more details available on their site]
Rjukan
Skien Telemark
11 June 1869 to Quebec
Skien
Skien Telemark
15 April 1869 to Quebec
Schooner WS Baker From: Kingston Arrived: July 28, 1868
Medway 1869 Passenger
List London to Quebec
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1870
Names of 866 Home Children sailing from England to Canada in 1870 [NAC online database, more details available on their site]
Skien
Skien Telemark
12 April 1870 to Quebec
Rjukan
Skien Telemark
5 June 1870 to Quebec
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1871
Names of 1,877 Home Children sailing from England to Canada in 1871 [NAC online database, more details available on their site]
Skien
Skien Telemark
8 June 1871 to Quebec
Rjukan
Skien Telemark
31 May 1871 to Quebec
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1872
Laurdal
Porsgrunn Telemark
21 April 1872 to Quebec
Skien
Skien Telemark
8 June 1872 to Quebec
Rjukan
Skien Telemark
23 May 1872
Adalia 1872 London
to Quebec via Plymouth
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1873
Names of 1,298 Home Children sailing from England to Canada in 1873 [NAC online database, more details available on their site]
Nordhavet
Skien Telemark
26 May 1873 to Quebec
SS Delta, 1873 to Ontario, Canada
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1874
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1875
Vicksburg Liverpool to Quebec Canada 1875
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1880-1890
Hanoverian, April
1885, Passenger list - Glasgow - Halifax
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1895
Numidian May 1895 bringing orphaned boys from Liverpool Catholic Children Protection Society to Quebec
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1900 - 1909
Quebec Ship Arrivals 1900-1909 Many of these passengers had a final destination of ND, MI or other American states
Halifax Ship Arrivals 1900-1914 Many of these passengers had a final destination of ND, KS, NE, IL or other American states
St. John Ship Arrivals 1900-1909 Many of these passengers had a final destination of ND, KS, NE, OH or other American states
St. John Ship Arrivals 1910-1914 Many of these passengers had a final destination of CO, IL or other American states
SS Sarmatian Glasgow Scotland to Quebec
Sarmatian 1903 Glasgow to Quebec
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1910-1919
S. S. Pisa Hamburg, Germany to Quebec & Montreal, 1911
S. S. Cassandra Glasgow to Quebec & Montreal 1913
Corsican Glasgow Scotland to Montreal Quebec 1915
S. S. Melita Liverpool to Quebec carrying soldiers, 1919
S. S. Melita Liverpool to Quebec carrying soldiers dependents, 1919
S. S. Saturnia Glasgow to Montreal carrying soldiers from Newfoundland, 1919
S. S. Mancester Corporation Manchester England to Montreal, 1919
Makura Sydney Australia to British Columbia, 1919
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1920-1929
RMS Andania 1922 Souvenir Passenger List (Southampton to
Canada) - List of Passengers, Cunard Line, R. M. S.
"Andania" Sailing From Southampton to Quebec and Montreal
(via Cherbourg), Thursday, 1st June, 1922. Cabin Passenger
List. [This booklet was distributed to cabin passengers. It
may not be as accurate as the passenger manifest][$]
Metagama Stornoway, Scotland to Saint John, New Brunswick in 1923
SS Montrose, from Liverpool arrived 19 June 1926 at Quebec - page 58 (Sheet No. 14)
SS Montrose, from Liverpool arrived 19 June 1926 at Quebec - page 67 (Sheet 23)
SS Stavangerfjord, from Oslo, Norway to Halifax Nova Scotia 1927
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada After 1930
Groote Beer Rotterdam to Quebec 1957
RECORD OF CANADIAN SHIPPING 1786-1920 - The Frederick W. Wallace Ship Lists Searchable database