This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: LorineMS Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.canada.ontario.simcoe/2528.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 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. Here are individual projects and databases online that may be of help in your search for an ancestor ending up in Simcoe County: ****************************************** Immigration Projects Online Ships passenger lists for Peter Robinson Settlers sailing1825 Ireland to Canada are online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ There are a few surviving passenger lists which were kept by shipping agents in the originating country. The Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents gives sailings from Londonderry to Quebec and St. John New Brunswick from 1847 to 1871. These are online at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke.shtml St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records 1819-1836 at http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1819_20index.htm The Hawke Papers, letterbooks of Chief Emigrant Agent Anthony B. Hawke are also available at the Archives of Ontario. They cover the years 1831 to 1892. See the searchable database for years 1865 - 1883 at http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/db/hawke.htm "Names of Emigrants from the 1845-1847 Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal" This is an index only but if you find a name of interest you can consult the published book. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/emigrants-montreal1845- 1847a.htm (2 line URL, copy and paste BOTH lines into yourweb browser, no spaces in the URL) If you are looking for Irish ancestors, you may want to search the online database Immigrants at Grosse-Île at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-504-e.html This database has information on 33,026 immigrants whose names appear in surviving records of the Grosse-Île Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937. ****************************************** There are search engines to search multiple websites for ships going to Canada at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml They include most ships lists on the Internet going to Canada and the online InGeneas databases for immigration to Canada 1800s ****************************************** Newspaper Arrivals TheShipsList website has Quebec ship arrivals extracted from contemporary newspapers. See http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/index.htm ****************************************** Library & Archives Canada Holdings There are some passenger lists archived at the NAC (National Archives of Canada) for the time period 1817- 1831. You might also find an ancestor in correspondence of the Secretary of State on immigration for 1817-1857. There are lists of immigrants, mainly Irish, and entry books re immigration, and assisted emigration to British North America. These must be ordered offline . Details are given at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/articles/immcanpre1865.shtml ****************************************** Miscellaneous Websites with Immigration Information on Ships to Canada Immigrants to Canada http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html The Ships List http://www.theshipslist.com/ Ships Passenger Lists Online http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ Finding Ships Passenger Lists to Canada http://shipslists-online.rootschat.net/canada/ Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1400-1930 http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tocan1400-1800.shtml Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.