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SHIP PASSENGER LISTS TO CANADA BEFORE 1865There 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.shtmlThey 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******************************************
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.shtmlSt. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records 1819-1836 at
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1819_20index.htm 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.htmThere 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
Petworth Immigrants 1832-1837 at
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/petworth.htmlEmigrants 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******************************************
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/saintjohnindex.htm 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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Mailing Lists
There is a mailing list called CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865-L for
queries and discussion involving immigration to Canada
before 1865. You can subscribe from this page
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865.html******************************************
Newspaper Arrivals
TheShipsList website has Quebec ship arrivals extracted from
contemporary newspapers.
See
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Miscellaneous Websites with Immigration Information on Ships
to Canada
Immigrants to Canada
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.htmlThe 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