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Library and Archives Canada (LAC) holds the Canadian immigration records for the years 1865 to 1935. The passenger lists are the sole surviving official records of the arrival of the majority of people accepted as immigrants in Canada.
They can be readily consulted by anyone via their free and public website here.
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This resource is available for citation to Ancestry members as a user-defined source ONLY. Ancestry has yet to purchase and publish the records for this Canadian Census. As such, there is no "collection" in the Ancestry system that describes this record set.
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From: Library and Archives Canada
Described as : Passenger Lists for the Port of Quebec City and Other Ports, 1865-1922>
Details : Only a microfilm copy of the census exists as an archival holding
Microfilmed by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration during the 1950s and 1960s
Their reference: Immigration Branch Fonds Series RG76
Location : Library and Archives Canada; 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0N4
A nominal card index for the port of Quebec City from the years 1865 to 1869 was created many years ago by the staff from the National Archives of Canada, now Library and Archives Canada, from passenger lists on microfilm. The information contained on those cards was inputted in this database; the cards contained no references to digitized images.
All the other entries were produced by Ancestry.ca and FamilySearch.org from digital images of microfilms made in 2006.
NOTE: LAC gratefully acknowledges the contribution of Ancestry.ca without which this project would not have been possible.
These database entries are in their original language. This information was not translated.
Important note: Some of the names were very difficult to read; therefore, some information in the database may be incorrect and/or incomplete. When searching, consider using slight variations on the spelling of the name. If the name cannot be found, only search the ship's name or the year.
This database contains 4,835,348 references to names found on passenger lists destined for the following ports:
- City of Québec, Quebec (includes Montréal) (RG 76 C1a), from May 1, 1865 to July 13, 1921;
- Halifax, Nova Scotia (RG 76 C1b), from January 1881 to October 2, 1922;
- Saint John, New Brunswick (RG 76 C1c), from January 4, 1900 to September 30, 1922;
- North Sydney, Nova Scotia (RG 76 C1d), from November 22, 1906 to August 31, 1922;
- Vancouver, British Columbia (RG 76 C1g), from January 4, 1905 to September 28, 1922; and
- Victoria, British Columbia (RG 76 C1h), from April 18, 1905 to September 30, 1922.
To maintain a file of immigrants arriving at seaports in the United States and proceeding directly overland to Canada, the Canadian immigration service began in 1905 to collect extracts of passenger lists kept at the east coast ports of New York, Baltimore, Boston, Portland, Philadelphia and Providence.
Important note: Some of the original documents are very difficult to read, therefore some information in the database may be incorrect and/or incomplete.
Further:
Located at: 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON CANADA K1A 0N4
Contact them at: +1-613-996-5115, or +1-866-578-7777; FAX: +1-613-995-6274
Or on the Internet via their home page.
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) provides free public access to these specific records with an extensive elaboration of and background for the material, and additonal references to other similar record collections via this page on their website.
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