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From: "Patrick A. Andrus" <>
Subject: Re: [TSL] [Fwd: Lookup>Ireland>Ontario>1846]
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:27:42 -0800


Marj Kohli wrote:
>
> Pat,
>
> At 02:59 PM 99/02/25 -0800, Patrick A. Andrus wrote:
> >Message-ID: <>
> >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:56:23 -0800
> >From: "Patrick A. Andrus" <>
> >Reply-To:
> >Organization: Sunset Chaser Resorts, Inc.
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> >Subject: Lookup>Ireland>Ontario>1846
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> >Thank you all who answered my question about Hamilton and the Emigration
> >Service Fund. This is somewhat of an extension of the subject. I
> >appreciate your help.
> >
> >Were there ocean going ships that would have continued up the St.
> >Lawrence River, ending up in Lake Ontario (near Hamilton)? Or, would my
> >relative have disembarked elsewhere, like Quebec City or Halifax, then
> >taken another ship or different mode of transport to Hamilton?
> >
>
> *******
> The Ocean vessels stopped at Quebec. From Quebec people took a boat up the
> St. Lawrence to Montreal. From Montreal they had a few options: a boat up
> the Ottawa River and then down the Rideau Canal to Prescot where they got a
> lake steamboat and went to Hamilton; a boat from Montreal, over the rapids
> and on to Prescot.
> *******
>
> >Would someone be able to look for Josheph Willis b. 1820 Clough Jordan,
> >Ireland on the 1846 Canadian passenger lists? He would have been about
> >26. Or, if that's too vague, how can I narrow it down?
> >
> >Thank you all very much,
> >Pat
>
> Canadian passenger lists were not archived until 1865. There are only
> scattered lists available. Try the InGeneas site at
>
> http://www.ingeneas.com
>
> as they have some of those scattered records from the National Archives of
> Canada.
>
> Regards..
>
> Marj Kohli
> Site License Coordinator
> Information Systems and Technology
> University of Waterloo
> Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1
> (519)888-4567, x2014 Fax: (519)884-4398 http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj
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Marj,
You're really really GOOD. Thank you once again.
Pat

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