Shipping lists to Canada

[maggie69]

Anyone know where I could find a passenger lists from Orkney to Canada in the 1800s

Margaret

[paddyscar]

Hi Margaret:

Shipslist website will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists. There are also immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.

http://www.theshipslist.com/

You may also find something at:

Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
Research at Library and Archives Canada
Passenger lists (RG 76) were the official record of immigration during this period; there are no immigrant applications or files.

The lists contain information such as name, age, country of origin, occupation and intended destination. They are arranged by port and date of arrival, with the exception of some years between 1919 and 1924, when an individual Form 30A was used.

The Government of Canada did not keep records of people leaving the country; there are no passenger lists for departures from Canadian ports.

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealo ... 003-e.html

Frances

[maggie69]

Thanks for that information. Looking for peter Kirkness who came to Ontario in the 1800,s. Cant seem to find him Thanks anyway

Margaret