Sailing ships to Canada 1910

[moiramount]

Hi does anyone know what sailing ships sailed to Canada around 1910 from Scotland and where in Scotland would they have sailed from if they lived in the Sutherland area. When my aunty was born out of wedlock in Bonar in 1911 the father had sailed off to Canada but later sent tickets for my grandma and baby to join them but alas they were never given the tickets so remained in Sutherland.
Would be have gone to Canada with the forces around that time or maybe a different job or was there a migration thing going on. Any info would be good.

Moira

[*Sandra*]

There was a "British Bonus Scheme" - A commission paid by the Canadian government's Immigration Branch to steamship booking agents in the United Kingdom for each suitable immigrant who purchased a ticket to sail to Canada. The immigrants themselves did not receive a bonus.

Glasgow was the most common place to sail from.

The best site to find information on immigration to Canada is at Library and Archives Canada
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
there are several searchable databases and also references to collections kept at the archive

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/022-908.001-e.html
at Library and Archives Canada
under Terminology and Abbreviations

This site may be of interest - https://www.gjenvick.com/

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1823240

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Have you searched for the father who went to Canada ?  We could try and find him to see what occupation he settles into.

Sandra

[moiramount]

Hi thanks for the replies, unfortunately we don't know the father's name, we are clutching at straws basically. The only other thing we have got is my aunty's DNA which shows her being as 97% Scottish and 3% Greek. My aunty had a nice tanned skin and we never knew where it had come from but it looks like her father could have been half Greek. Were there Greek people living in Scotland around this time, who knows

[*Sandra*]

Have you got the address, from when he sent the tickets ?

Sandra

[moiramount]

Unfortunately not, my grandma lived at home when pregnant and she was hidden away until she had the baby then my great grandparents brought her up and my grandma later married and had my mum . There was always talk about Spanish in the family hence the tanned skin but it looks like it could be Greek now.

[dbree]

Hi,

A slim chance, but if tickets were purchased and the passage booked, Grandma's name may
appear on a manifest with a strike thru as "not sailed"

DB

[moiramount]

Good thinking there.

Thankyou

[djct59]

My grandmother's elder brother left Durness, Sutherland in 1911 and ended up in the Post Office in Vancouver, only returning briefly in the 1970s. Her sister married a returning emigrant who had also left Durness in 1911, so migration to Canada was not rare pre-WWI.