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Destination Canada links
Passenger arrivals up to 1935 have been opened for researchers to use. This lecture includes information on ship passenger lists, border crossing records, and naturalization and citizenship documents. It is an overview of what's available and how to use the information effectively. Many people heading to the United States from Europe went through Canada. The session refers to these links:
Passenger lists 1865-1922
On the Library and Archives Canada website. Not indexed yet.

Library and Archives Canada
Features include an index to arrivals 1925-1935, a naturalization index and more.

Ancestors on Board
Passengers outbound from England, 1890-1960. Cross-reference for your arrivals in Canada.

Passenger List Indexing Project
The Nanaimo Family History Society has launched a remarkable project -- indexing Canadian passenger lists from the early 1900s. So far, about 396,000 arrivals at Quebec, from May 1907 through October 1910, have been indexed.

Friends of Dave Howard Index
About 34,000 arrivals at Quebec from 1898 and 1899.

Maritime History Archive
On the site of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Includes crew lists.

One Hundred Years of Immigration to Canada

Forging Our Legacy - Canadian Citizenship and Immigration 1900-1977

CanGenealogy.com

Searches of the National Registration of 1940

Ancestry.com
The largest collection of American passenger arrival records.

Ingeneas Includes arrival records

Pier 21 - Halifax

The Olive Tree
Historical and genealogical information includes Ships' Passenger Lists.

Emigration Info - Ships They Came On
Lists of ships sailing to Canada, the ports, and the people.

The Ships List
Provides information on the ships used by our ancestors when they came to North America.

Hamburg - Link to your Roots

United States National Archives and Records Administration

Germans from Russia arrivals 1900-1914

Castle Garden index 1830-1892

Ellis Island index 1892-1924

Search the Ellis Island site in one step!

Mail addresses:

For the 1940 National Registration:
Census Pension Searches Unit
Census Operations Division
Statistics Canada
B1E-34 Jean Talon Building
Tunney's Pasture
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada K1A 0T6

For photocopies from the National Archives of Canada:
Send orders by mail to:
Photoduplication Unit
National Archives of Canada
395 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0N3
Send orders by fax to:
(613) 995-6274

Immigration records post-1935, and all naturalization records
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Public Rights Administration
365 Laurier Ave West
15th Floor
Ottawa, Ont., K1A 1L1
Each application must be submitted on an Access to Information Request Form by a Canadian citizen or a resident of Canada. The fee is $5, payable to the Receiver General of Canada.


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Updated April 3, 2008

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