emigration costs

[santana]

Hello,

My Father emigrated from Belfast  to Canada in 1929.
He came aboard the ANDANIA (Cunard).
On his emigration papers is stamped:
GOVERNMENT ASSISTED THIRD CLASS
Would anyone know what the cost would have been?
I have contacted Cunard, Can. Government, British Government, Ellis Island, etc, and no one seems to know.
Thanks

Joan

[Hackstaple]

The cost was normally £10. At various times it had been free and since 1818 there had been many organisations in the British Isles who subsidized fares and loaned money for fares. A large amount of information about emigration to Canada is on this URL:
http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/10/100801_e.html

[Biker]

Perhaps you have already tried this, but the Cunard Archives are held at the University of Liverpool.  Not sure how helpful that would be but ...

http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/colldescs/archives.html

This gives a fare structure from a slightly earlier time which might give an idea: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/fares/costofpassage.htm#1901

Good luck

Jonathan

[santana]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks very much

Joan

[Wendl]

Hi Santana,

My Grandfather, his parents and 7 of his siblings emigrated to Canada in 1928 from Belfast.  One of my Mum's cousin's has the actual ticket that her father used to come over on the Whitestar line....at the time the cost was $84.50 canadian....to travel 3rd class....I have been fortunate enough to find all the entries pertaining to my family with the exception of my grt grandfather, believe he came over just prior to 1925....and have got photocopies of all of the ship entries...

[tallted]

A question for Hack,
Hi Hack, glad to see you were still on the board today and hope this means you will be continueing your good work.
I noticed this page and thought I would ask if you knew the answer to a similar question.
My grdparents were both Canadian Home Children sent to Canada via Dr. Barnardos Institute, I was wondering who paid for those trips for the children, the Canadian Govt., the U.K. Govt. or the Institute itself.  I have queried the Dr. B. Inst. but they dont seem to want to answer or they are too busy to answer.
Regardless maybe you have the answer or know where one may find it in the U.K. Govt. files.
Thanks for your help.
Ted