Canadian needle in a haystack

[Blue-Sten]

Is this just for British Colombia?

If it is then I guess I can cross out one province.

[jorose]

Canadian records are arranged by province, so you'd have to check each in turn.  Other than BC, NB also has records online (checked, only one Ann Bainbridge Berwick, married in 1954), Manitoba (marriages of an Annie in 1913 and an Isabelle Agnes in 1921, some deaths but too old to be yours).  Saskatchewan only has births (100 years ago and older) online so far.  Also looked at www.ourroots.ca and www.ourfutureourpast.ca, which have searchable local histories (the second is just for Alberta, the first covers all Canada but most books seem to be for the Prairie Provinces), no luck.

http://thestar.pagesofthepast.ca/ - you could try searching the Toronto Star for some sign of them, although it's a pay site they do have the option of just signing up for 1 hour or 1 day.

[Blue-Sten]

I will look on that tonight. Are any other newspapers online?

[jorose]

There's some for Alberta on www.ourfutureourpast.ca, not indexed though.  I don't know about any others.

[loo]

Pretty well all of the newspapers are online, but not all of them have online searching that far back;  in fact I'm not sure if any of them do.  But they do still have librarians in the newspaper businesses, and it's worth contacting them.
You could also try the public libraries in all the major centres, ask the librarian if they have anything in their fact files etc.  It's surprising what you can find out from librarians.  It takes time, of course.

[eillo]

you must narrow your timeline for immigration because passenger lists before 1914 are not indexed (altho they are on microfilm and held by National Archives of Canada) see http://shipslists-online.rootschat.net for more help with that.

You will also need to figure out what province they went to!

I'd check the 1901 census at http://automatedgenealogy.com and the 1911 indexes at http://allcensusrecords.com/

[stonechat]

I reccomend the 1911 census at
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/index.html

However I have  a similar problem - a large numbre of people descended from an including Caroline Emma Edwards emigrated to Canada. I've only found one family so far, so know they must have emigrated about 1906. However others were still in UK in 1907 and 1908. I know they were in Canada by 1920.

When all you hear is family legend, it's  hard to pin down unless you already have plenty of other information.

Bob

[Blue-Sten]

Cheers, I'll have a look.

What about ship passenger logs?

[Blue-Sten]

No luck on automated genealogy....