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From: "Olive Tree Genealogy" <>
Subject: Finding Passenger Lists to Canada BEFORE 1865
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 08:19:06 -0400

I thought it might be helpful for researchers to have an
overview of what is available in Ships Passenger Lists to
Canada, and where they can be found. So I wrote this up
this morning.

Hope it helps.

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.

There are search engines to search multiple websites for
ships going to Canada at

http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml

They include most ships lists on the Internet going to
Canada and the online InGeneas databases for immigration to
Canada 1800s

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Library & Archives Canada Holdings

There are some passenger lists archived at the NAC
(National Archives of Canada) for the time period 1817-
1831. You might also find an ancestor in correspondence of
the Secretary of State on immigration for 1817-1857. There
are lists of immigrants, mainly Irish, and entry books re
immigration, and assisted emigration to British North
America. These must be ordered offline . Details are given
at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/articles/immcanpre1865.shtml

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Immigration Projects Online

Ships passenger lists for Peter Robinson Settlers
sailing1825 Ireland to Canada are online at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

There are a few surviving passenger lists which were kept
by
shipping agents in the originating country. The Passenger
Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents gives sailings from
Londonderry to Quebec and St. John New Brunswick from 1847
to 1871. These are online at

http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke.shtml

St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records 1819-1836 at
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1819_20inde
x.htm [copy and paste BOTH lines of the URL into your web
browser]

The Hawke Papers, letterbooks of Chief Emigrant Agent
Anthony B. Hawke are also available at the Archives of
Ontario. They cover the years 1831 to 1892. See the
searchable database at
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/db/hawke.htm

There is also the "Return of Emigrants Landed at the Port
of
Kingston Ontario, Canada 1861-1882" which gives the final
destination of the individuals, their date of arrival at
Kingston and more. It is found at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/kingston1861oct-
1862may.shtml [copy and paste BOTH lines of the URL into
your web browser]


Petworth Immigrants 1832-1837 at
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/petworth.ht
ml [copy and paste BOTH lines of the URL into your web
browser]


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 at
http://www.allenglishrecords.com/almshouse-a-f.shtml

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New Brunswick Arrivals

The Saint John Customs House Passenger Lists 1815, 1832,
1833-1834 & 1837-1838 are the only known surviving lists
from this time period. Some can be found online at
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/saintjohnin
dex.htm [copy and paste BOTH lines of the URL into your
web browser]
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.

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Newspaper Arrivals

TheShipsList website has Quebec ship arrivals extracted
from
contemporary newspapers.

See

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/index.htm


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Miscellaneous Websites with Immigration Information on
Ships
to Canada

Immigrants to Canada
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html

The Ships List
http://www.theshipslist.com/

Ships Passenger Lists Online
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

Finding Ships Passenger Lists to Canada
http://shipslists-online.rootschat.net/canada/

Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1400-1930
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tocan1400-1800.shtml




-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

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