Orkney to York Factory on Hudsons Bay.

[Spanish_Eyes]

Are there any records of ship names and passenger lists for ships/people that left Orkney Islands to York Factory (Hudson's Bay Post) on Hudsons Bay, Ontario, Canada.?

I am trying to find a passenger, John Sabiston, who would have made the trip in 1860 at 17 years of age.

Any help appreciated,  Spanish Eyes

[Janice M]

I haven't found passenger lists yet, but here are some books that mention the "Sabiston" surname.

http://www.ourroots.ca/e/search.aspx?field=Page&key=Sabiston

Janice

[Martin Briscoe]

Stromness Museum has quite a bit about the Orkney - Hudson Bay Company connections, you could EMail them?

Martin Briscoe

[Janice M]

Here is another link from Nanaimo Community Archives
http://aabc.bc.ca/WWW.ncai.archbc/display.NCAI-100

Orkneymen with the Hudson's Bay Company
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/OKI/canada.html

The Bate Family Of Nanaimo
http://www.crunchers.bc.ca/robinson/bate_family.html

arrived in Victoria
in 1852 on the Hudson's Bay ship Norman Morrison

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/images/publications/SL_lewisdrydenmarine/SL_lewisdrydenmarine_063_0001.txt

To the Charlottes: George Dawson's 1878 Survey of the Queen Charlotte Islands
http://tinyurl.com/38zvj2

Norman Morrison Passenger List
http://www.fortlangley.ca/nmorison.html

Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men
http://tinyurl.com/3xa6ux



Janice

[Janice M]

Here is another site with the passenger list
http://www.joansjoy.ca/NM%201st%20Trip%20Pass.htm

Maybe this is you, but if not they have information to share.
http://www.cursiter.com/pages/archives/guestbook1998.htm

Electric Scotland - North American Fur Traders
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/fur_trappers.htm

Another link to "Letters to Men at the Post"
http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/undeliveredletters/07posts.pdf

Hudson's Bay Company - Fur Trade
http://www.canadiana.org/hbc/intro_e.html

Janice

[Spanish_Eyes]

Thanks Janice and Martin, I will check these sites out. I am hoping to find out which ship he traveled on and travel information for him.

Spanish Eyes

[Janice M]

The ship was the "Norman Morrison".

Here is another site.
http://www.idreamof.com/canada/bc.html

and another 
http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html


Janice

[Spanish_Eyes]

Hi Janice

The passenger list you have posted is for Victoria, B.C., he is another John Sabiston. The one I am looking for landed at York Factory on Hudson's Bay in Ontario and then took a York Boat to the Red River Settlement in Manitoba.

Thanks anyway, I appreciate the help. I will check out the other sites and see if any are mine.

Spanish Eyes

[Spanish_Eyes]

Hi Janice

Kind of off my subject but I notice you have a Thomson in your line. On my mothers side we have Thompson's and Thomson's.
The name seemed elective, in 1861 and 1871 Ontario census the name was spelled without a "P" and in B.C. it was spelled with a "P".
The family that lived on Vancouver Island, B.C., one of the brothers, had a large family spelled Thomson, the rest of the family on the mainland used Thompson.
Ernest Evan Seton Thompson a well-known artist and author, was related to my mothers side of the family and was most known as Ernest Evan Thompson Seton and his great grandfather was George Seton, 5th. and last Earl of Winton.

Is this any relation to yours?

Spanish Eyes