Fingers crossed for you Sue. It's a challenging time period. Sadly I see that my email program messed up some of the links, and my adding an asterisk * to help space them out made things worse! Some of the links are not working because an asterisk crept in to the end of the URL. If you try a link and it doesn't work, remove the * if there is one. Also many if not most of the links I posted can be found and clicked on at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/canada/ Lorine On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Sue Richart <srichart4@gmail.com> wrote: > Lorine, > Thank you! I'm still trying to find information about my > great-great-grandparents that came from Scotland to Montreal that will help > me place where they came from. Your list will be a great help doing this, > if their travel was recorded. > > Sue Richart > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Olive Tree Genealogy < > olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello everone, > > > > Because I am asked about this so frequently, I have written up where you > > can > > look for existing passenger records to Canada before 1865. > > > > There are *no* comprehensive 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. > > > > There is a 2-column "chart" at > > > > http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/canada/ which gives a > comprensive > > list of ALL available ships passenger lists for Canada both online and > > offline. One side of the chart is for Shipos arriving before 1865, the > > other > > side for ships arriving after 1865. > > > > Links are provided on the chart for ALL online records - most are free, a > > few are pay-to-view > > > > > > > > -- Follow my genealogy updates on Twitter http://twitter.com/LorineMS Olive Tree Genealogy http://olivetreegenealogy.com