Great Day for Canadian Genealogy - Passenger Lists

[KarenM]

Hi everyone,

I was just on the Government of Canada Library Site and they have now put the passenger lists for 1865 to 1922 on-line.  They are not indexed (I'm sure ancestry will do that soon), but you can search by year and port, and view the original images. 

This is so exciting.

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/passenger/001045-130-e.html

Karen

[J.J.]

We are so fortunate to have access to so much information...!   J.J.
   

[polarbear]

What a wonderful resource to now have on line! Thank you so much for bringing it to our attention.

Regards,
Polarbear

[J.J.]

Karen, In case people miss this, would you mind adding it to our resources child board under Ship Lists - Emigrants to Canada?

I haven't tried it yet, but will soon...! J.J.

[KarenM]

Sure JJ, I can do that.

Also, for those people who had men and woman who served in WWI, the passenger lists have the returning solidiers on them, they are in alphabetical order, some are a little hard to read, but they give the next of kin and the address of where they are headed.  The military lists seems to be at the back of the lists, so for instance if there are 52 pages, go to the last page and search backwards.

Karen

[J.J.]

Oh, that is so cool...again...I'm going to add a link to this info to the Canadian Soldiers / Database Links ? I'll just modify the first entry and link to this message perhaps?

There's already 2 pages going, so it might get overlooked otherwise....

Thanks a million....this is going to be so great!!!!    J.J.

[atth2o]

Hi Karen,

Thanks for the heads up.  I just found my grandfather and his Aunt & Uncles family that came on a separate ship.   

Nancy

[KarenM]

That's great Nancy!!

I see the National Archives in England is doing the same for outbound passenger lists at www.ancestorsonboard.com  at the moment you can search at www.findmypast.com 1890 to 1899, it of course is a pay per view site, but you can see the names of people and the port they arrived in.

Karen

[01debbie]

Hi Karen,

Wow, what a useful site...& it's free!!  I recently discovered that my Gx2 Grandparents went out to Canada sometime after 1871 & returned (to England) by 1879.  They were in Toronto.  Have you any idea which port they might have landed at if they were going onto Toronto?  I appreciate they could've landed at an obvious port & gone anywhere, but it would help me to search.  All I have at the moment is the time span & I'm getting masses of returns.

Any advice would be VERY gratefully received!!

Best wishes,

Debbie...in a cold & foggy Southampton