finding the ship from Lancashire

[Mykin]

CollectionsCanada has scans of the passenger lists 1865-1922 online for free. Not indexed though, so you will probably end up with tired eyes. Also, don't assume that just because they ended up in Quebec that that was their point of disembarkation. They might have gone overland from Halifax, especially in winter.

I start at www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/passenger

My people were post 1900, and the detail improves as you get later.

 Hi andrewalston,I believe that they would have arrived here in the spring as they were early settlers to this northeren area and would need to build a cabin and get a bit of a garden in etc before winter hit.
 I can get on to collectionscanada but the print is horrible. for 1879 &80. I can't make out anything with a magniying glass either.
This collection is a breakthrough but I hope they are going to improve the print of the earlier that 1900 records.
thank you for your help, doe

[emmsthheight]

HI Mykin

I'm sure if you stay on Rootschat long enough you'll find a friend in every one of those places.  In this case, it doesn't have to be the city where they were, just someone going to a library with the right version of Ancestry.

Best wishes

Emms

[andrewalston]

I can get on to collectionscanada but the print is horrible. for 1879 &80. I can't make out anything with a magniying glass either.
This collection is a breakthrough but I hope they are going to improve the print of the earlier that 1900 records.
thank you for your help, doe

If you click on the image you get a slightly larger image. Even so a magnifying glass is useful.

[Iggy]

Hi My kin,
The Thomas Wroe, that Emms found, is age 51, born Bury Abt 1874.  Passage paid for by Firm.  Occupation: Director.  Destination: Vancouver, B.C..  Date of Arrival 18 May 1925.  Port of Departure: Hong Kong.  This would not be the Thomas you are looking for, so you can eliminate.  There are no other Thomas Wroes on the Canada Passenger List 1865-1935 on Ancestry.

Unable to find any Caleb or Alice Wroe/Roe. No Thomas Roe arriving Abt 1879.  One arriving in Quebec 11 Jul 1870-born Abt 1849. Another Arriving 1867 Quebec b. Abt 1847.  Another arriving Quebec 1865 b. Abt 1830.  All the rest arriving in the 1900s.  Would help to have your Thomas birth year.

Iggy

[Mykin]

Sorry for the long delay in answering but wasn't aware there was a message.

My people would have gone to #1  Quebec or Nova Scotia to enter Canada. His full name was Thomas William Wroe. B.March 1859 in Liverpool,Lancashire. They were in the 1881 Canadian census. His wife's name was Nancy Law.

His parents were Caleb James Wroe b. about 1830, wife was Alice Laycock