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Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1850 to 1865

Finding Ancestors on Canadian Passenger Lists
Start your ancestor search with Canadian Passenger Lists online, Passengers & Immigration Help, What's available in Canadian immigration before 1865, or Finding Ships Passenger Lists to Canada

Ships Passenger Lists Before 1865
There are no comprehensive ships passenger lists of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to 1865. Until that year, shipping companies were not required by the government to keep their passenger manifests.

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Filling in the Gaps: Finding Pre-1865 Ships Passenger Lists to Canada (84 pages) by Lorine McGinnis Schulze

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Immigration Projects Online

* Immigrants proceeding to Upper Canada via New York 1817-1819 Index to online Passes for 199 individuals who were issued passes to go from New York to Upper Canada shortly after arriving in the USA
* Edinburgh Settlers 1815 General List of Settlers enrolled for Canada under the Government Regulations at Edinburgh 1815. These lists of passengers are a compilation of two lists.
* Return of Irish Catholic (Counties Wexford & Carlow) families who Sailed from New Ross to Upper Eastern Canada in 1817
* Alms House Admission Foreigners & Nativity Records with Ships Names 1819 - 1840 (New York City, New York) includes individuals who had sailed into Canada first
* Ships passenger lists for Peter Robinson Settlers sailing 1825 Ireland to Canada (includes passenger lists and surgeon's logs of the sick and dying, plus 180 Settlers Survey Responses 1823-1825)
* St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records 1819-1836
* Poor Law Union Immigration from England to Canada 1836-1853 names of impoverished emigrants sent from England to Canada on board 23 ships. Also names of emigrants each year from 1836 - 1871 (no ship names)
* The Hawke Papers, letterbooks of Chief Emigrant Agent Anthony B. Hawke are available at the Archives of Ontario from 1831 to 1892. Search the searchable database 1865 - 1883 The 1831-1865 records are not online but can be consulted at the Ontario Archives
* Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents with sailings from Londonderry Ireland to Quebec and St. John New Brunswick from 1847 to 1871.
* People from the Fitzwilliam estate in Ireland who settled in Ontario, 1847-1855 Settlement in East half of Ontario
*A Story of Emigration: Southwest Wicklow (Ireland) to Ontario 1840s Settlement in West half of Ontario
* Index of Names of Emigrants from the 1845-1847 Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal
* Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal, 1823-1845 on Ancestry Full details [$]
* Emigration Agent Returns of Emigrant Orphans, 1847 on Ancestry [$]
* Filling in the Gaps: Partial Ships Passenger Lists 1850-1855 Names of Individuals in the New York Almshouse who arrived in Canada before going on to New York (includes name of ship, date of arrival and more)
* Return of Emigrants Landed at the Port of Kingston Ontario, Canada 1861-1882 gives the final destination of the individuals, their date of arrival at Kingston and more.
* Petworth Immigrants 1832-1837
* Emigrants from England in New York City Almshouse 1818-1830 - 254 names of English immigrants to Canada & USA including the name of the ship they sailed on
* Irish Immigrants at Grosse-Īle - 33,026 immigrants whose names appear in surviving records of the Grosse-Īle Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937.
* Search most ships lists on the Internet going to Canada and the online InGeneas databases for immigration to Canada 1800s
* Saint John New Brunswick Customs House Passenger Lists 1815, 1832, 1833-1834 & 1837-1838 - the only known surviving lists from this time period. Most of the Customs House records were lost in 1877 in the Great Fire of Saint John. Famine lists from 1845-1850 appear also to have been lost.
* Colonial Archives Database contains over 70,000 detailed descriptions of documents in the archival collection mainly of the British and French colonial periods. Search Tip from Lorine: Use French keyword "passagers" to virew the 526 entries re passengers to New France, Louisiana etc. Note that the records are NOT duplicated in both English & French. For eg. "passengers" gives 89 hits only
* Index to Miscellaneous Immigrants to Canada Before 1865 A number of lists have been indexed by name in this database. Many of the records relate to immigrants from the British Isles to Quebec and Ontario, but there are also references to settlers in other provinces. The database also includes other types of records such as declarations of aliens and names of some Irish orphans.


Passenger lists for Ships to Canada after 1865

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NEW! Request a search for your ancestor in the following Books of Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists Records from my personal collection. These Canadian immigration records are not online.
  • [BOOK 1] Names of Emigrants 1845-1847. Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal (Quebec Canada)
  • [BOOKS 2-4] Canada Company Remittance Books 1843-1847 in 3 Volumes.
  • [BOOK 5] Index of Passengers Who Emigrated to Canada between 1817 and 1849.

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Ships with Passengers for Quebec Canada


An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Anna 1851 Ireland to Quebec (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Envoy 1851 Ireland to Quebec (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Envoy Ireland to Quebec, 1851 Second Voyage (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Glen Lion from Waterford Ireland to Quebec 1851 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship John of France from Cork Ireland to Quebec July 1851 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Bello from Portsmouth England to Quebec October 1851 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Elinor from Liverpool to Quebec 9 May 1852 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship unknown name from Liverpool to Quebec May 1852 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship unknown name from Liverpool to Quebec August 1852 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Lord Lambton, Ireland to Quebec, 1852 (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Envoy, Ireland to Quebec 1852, First Trip (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Envoy, Ireland to Quebec 1852, Second Trip (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Envoy, Ireland to Quebec 1852, Third Trip (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Envoy, Ireland to Quebec 1853 (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Vestlinden 1853 Ireland to Quebec (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Satelite from Cork Ireland to Quebec August 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Payoo or Payne from Tralee Ireland to Quebec 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship unknown name from Cork Ireland to Quebec November 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Troy from Cork Ireland to Quebec August 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Ellen Montrose from Montreal to Quebec 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Augusta from Sligo Ireland to Quebec June 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Elizabeth from Dublin Ireland to Quebec July 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Binarus from Dublin Ireland to Quebec May 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Harmony from Limerick Ireland to Quebec June 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Jane Glass from Liverpool to Quebec June 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Jesse or Jessie from Limerick Ireland to Quebec October 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Canada from Cork Ireland to Quebec 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship unknown name from Cork Ireland to Quebec September 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Dunbrow or Dunbrin from New Ross, Scotland to Quebec September 1853 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Letica or Bentice from Aberdeen Scotland to Quebec in the Spring 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Bismark from Limerick Ireland to Quebec June 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Gassinger from Cork Ireland to Quebec August 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Diamond from Hull England to Quebec June 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Augusta from Sligo Ireland to Quebec July 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Grano Gas?Light from Cork Ireland to Quebec July or August 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Blanche from Hull England to Quebec August 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Duke of Wellington from Tralee Ireland to Quebec August 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Columbus from Dublin Ireland to Quebec August 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Satelite from Cork Ireland to Quebec August 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Mauritius Ireland to Quebec 1854 (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List  Adolph Werner 1854 Ireland to Quebec (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Mauritius Ireland to Quebec 1854 (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List  Superior 1855 Ireland to Quebec (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship unknown name from Liverpool to Quebec April 1855 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship James Nasmith? from Liverpool to Quebec July 1855 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Colonist from Liverpool to Quebec September 1855 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Quaker? Brothers from Wexford Ireland to Quebec October 1855 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Eagle from Liverpool to Quebec October or November 1855 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Lock Lipon from Dublin Ireland to Quebec December 1855 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Victoria from Plymouth England to Quebec June 1856 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Admiral Boxer from Liverpool to Quebec August 1856 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Old England from Waterford Ireland to Quebec December 1856 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Alicia from Portsmouth to Quebec 6 December 1857 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship unknown name from Liverpool to Quebec July 1858 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Argentinus 1858 Ireland to Quebec (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Argentinus 1859 Ireland to Quebec (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Nubia 1861 Ireland to Quebec (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Carlisle Scotland Emigration to Quebec Canada 1863 probably on the Ships St. George & United Kingdom
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Nubia Ireland to Quebec 1863 (J J Cooke Shipping Records)

Ships with Passengers for Halifax Nova Scotia Canada

An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship American from Limerick Ireland to Halifax Nova Scotia September 1851 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship unknown name from Liverpool to Halifax Nova Scotia April 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)

Ships with Passengers for New Brunswick Canada


An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Londonderry 1851 Ireland to St John New Brunswick (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Barbara, Ireland to St. John, New Brunswick 1851 (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Londonderry Ireland to St. John, New Brunswick 1851 Second Voyage (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Mary Ann, Ireland to St. John, New Brunswick 1852 (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Mary Ann Ireland to St. John, New Brunswick 1853 (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List  Mary Ann 1853 second voyage Ireland to St John, New Brunswick (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Mary Ann First Journey Ireland to St. John, New Brunwsick 1854 (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Mary Ann Second Journey Ireland to St. John, New Brunwsick 1854 (J. J. Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List  Miner 1854 Ireland to St John, New Brunswick (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship unknown name from Cork Ireland to St. Johns (Newfoundland?) 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship John Cart? from Liverpool to St. Johns September 1855 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List  Elizabeth 1858 Ireland to St John, New Brunswick (J J Cooke Shipping Records)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Elizabeth Ireland to St. John 1859
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Elizabeth Ireland to St. John 1860
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Argentinus Ireland to St. John 1860
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Elizabeth Ireland to St John New Brunswick 1861
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Elizabeth Ireland to New Brunswick 1863
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Nubia Ireland to New Brunswick 1863

Ships with Passengers for Montreal Quebec Canada

An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship unknown name from Cork Ireland to Montreal 1 June 1851 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Jane Black from Somerset to Montreal August 1852 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Charity from Liverpool to Montreal June 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Ship Columbus from Dublin Ireland to Montreal August 1854 (Partial Ships Passenger List)

Where Else Can I ind Ships Passenger Lists to Canada?

Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1850

Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListCowlitz 1850 to Esquimalt Vancouver Island, BC
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListNorman Morison 1850 from Gravesend to Esquimalt Harbour, BC
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1851

Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListTorrie Chartered by the Hudson's Bay Company to carry labourers for the settlement on Vancouver Island, BC 1851
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Arial 1851
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Jane Watson 1851
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1852
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListNorman Morison 1852 to Victoria BC
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger List Arthur (Bremen to Quebec) of 1852

An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Maria 1852
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Anna Maria 1852
An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Anna Maria 1857
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1853
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger List Passenger List 1853 - Ship Norman Morrison To Victoria BC
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1854

An Olive Tree Genealogy Free Ships Passenger List Arial 1854
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListPrincess Royal 1854 to Vancouver Island BC
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1857
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListPrincess Royal 1857 to Vancouver Island BC
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListArrivals to Vancouver Island
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1860

Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Names of these Home Children found in passenger lists at the National Archives of Canada are now searchable online



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Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListBrother John 1860 to Vancouver Island BC
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1861

Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListOregon 1861 to Vancouver Island BC
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListPrincess Royal 1861 to Vancouver Island BC
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1862
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListPassenger List 1862 - Ship Princess Royal to BC
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListBritish Queen sailed for Nova Scotia from Liverpool, England on April 1st, 1862.
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListPrincess Royal 1862 to Vancouver Island BC
Where Else Can I Find Ships Passenger Lists to Canada Before 1865?
Not an Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger ListRECORD OF CANADIAN SHIPPING 1786-1920 - The Frederick W. Wallace Ship Lists Searchable database

You may wish to join CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865. This is a mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding ship passenger lists, immigration records, naturalization records and ships' lists substitutes for immigration to Canada before 1865. To subscribe send "subscribe" to can-shipslists-pre1865-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or can-shipslists-pre1865-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode)." More information can be found on the Rootsweb CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865 page.

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