How to find family on passenger lists?

[S1233]

After discovering that many Canadian passenger lists are online here: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/passenger/index-e.html , I tried looking for some of my ancestors. They came on a Red Star Liner ship in 1907. Though I don't know the name of the ship, I searched all Red Star Liner ships in 1907 and couldn't find them. I don't know where they arrived or where they came from. They settled in Punnichy, Saskatchewan after their arrival.

Their names are:

James Salaba (though his first name may be listed as Vaclav), born 1881
his wife, Mary Anne (nee Slawick), born 1882
daughter Annie, born 1904
Two of James' sisters and their mother, names and years of birth unknown

They were of Czech or Russian/Polish descent.

How can I find them?

Thanks.

[susano]

Hi

I know you asked specifically about passenger lists and I'm still looking for those; however, I did find some other sites that I thought might be of interest to you.  Apologies if you already have this information.

http://www.metismuseum.ca/resource.php/04256
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0qm3/
http://genforum.genealogy.com/canada/saskatchewan/messages/1993.html

Susan

[S1233]

I do, but I forgot the legal land description, so thank you for that!

[S1233]

After looking over James Sr.'s homestead files, he believed (as of 1952) that he applied for/obtained his homestead around October-November 1907, so I am assuming they arrived around that time. He obtained his homestead entry on December 2, 1907 and was naturalized in December of 1908.

[susano]

I've been searching the passenger lists on Ancestry for them but no luck so far.  I'm thinking that perhaps the surname is mistranscribed or the passenger list did not survive. 

If you don't mind my asking, how do you know that they travelled on a Red Star Liner?

Susan

[S1233]

It was in a biography in one of those local history books. I wonder if it could have been the wrong liner.

[jorose]

There's also http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/ if they came through Montreal/Quebec.

There's a possible, indexed arriving 29 May,1907 on the Mount Royal,
surname "Salas?"
Wactaw, 24
Marya, 24
Anna, 2
page 017-016

The original is not easy to read (I find some of their online scans are not at the ideal resolution/contrast).
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e147/e003663902.jpg

No sisters/mother and their destination is only given as "Montreal".

[susano]

Great find, Jorose.  I'm embarrassed that I hadn't checked there....it was a very ambitious project done by my local Family History Society!!

[S1233]

Wow! Thank you so much for finding that!

The family did live in Poland before they lived in Canada. I searched the .pdf index for "29 May,1907" and found there were two passengers named Jeryna and Marya "Salima," who were Russian Galician, which fits with James and his family. Their birth countries/areas have been given as Russia, Poland for Mary, and Galicia. That leaves out one of the family members, probably his mother.. I can't seem to find Jeryna and Marya on the photocopy of the actual lists and I can't find the other list when searching on the Library and Archives site.