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From: "Family Janes" <>
Subject: Re: [NF-ROOTS] transatlantic voyages
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:10:52 -0330
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Hi
My gr grandparents came to Sask from England in 1910. They arrived in
Montreal and went west by train. There is a website that has ships manifests
transcribed but I don't know where it is. Maybe someone on the list does.
Brenda

----- Original Message -----
From: Jacqueline Douglas <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:46 AM
Subject: RE: [NF-ROOTS] transatlantic voyages


> I have a related question. I'm wondering what the most likely route would
> have been for someone emigrating to Vancouver from England in 1901-1902.
I'm
> assuming he'd have come by ship to the east coast or Montreal, then by
train
> to Vancouver. Is that a reasonable assumption? Does anyone know what the
> usual port would have been in such a case? Was there another common route
> that did not include any of our now Canadian eastern ports? Grateful for
any
> help, Jacqueline Douglas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane Bowe [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 4:43 AM
> To:
> Subject: [NF-ROOTS] transatlantic voyages
>
>
> I too wonder about the way the immigrants came to Newfoundland from
England
> and Ireland - did they USUALLY land in St John's or come through the
States
> or other Canadian ports?
> Diane Bowe(researching BOWE and RAYMOND)
>
>
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> SOUTH COAST REGION
> http://www.huronweb.com/genweb/nfdata/main_023.htm
> TRINITY BAY REGION
> http://www.huronweb.com/genweb/nfdata/main_060.htm
> WEST COAST REGION
> http://www.huronweb.com/genweb/nfdata/main_093.htm
>
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