Sue, and List: I was very excited to learn that you may be posting newspaper accounts & info for the year 1857, for Quebec and surrounds, resembling the excellent info found at < http://theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/Canada1856.htm > I am trying to find, at the least, the dates of sailings of the HOPE for the year 1857, inbound and outbound for Quebec. The HOPE traded between Scotland and Quebec. In a little biographical sketch from "History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin", published in 1881, there is a bit of information that states that my gg-granddad [surname Budge] "commenced his career as a sailor in the HOPE, which traded between Scotland and Quebec." He emigrated from So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, in the year 1857. Since this "commencing of his career as a sailor" begain coincident with the approximate year of his emigration to North America (he settled first in Oswego, NY), it is highly probable that he emigrated AS a sailor, not as a passenger (though this is guesswork) and maybe emigrated on the ship HOPE, but continuing to work on that ship for a while, till he gained more skills. He eventually became a ship's captain in the Coasting Trade, on the Great Lakes. I know the chances are low that crew lists for inbound/outbound ships were notated within the local Canadian newspapers, so my expectations are so far that I will only find at least some way to know all the dates of the sailings of that ship, HOPE, to Scotland, and back to Quebec, from its first sailing that year (1857), to its last. Maybe I may be able to find out more on this when the URL for the year 1857 regarding Quebec newspaper transcripts, is posted on TheShipsList site. Does anyone else have any other suggestions? I do know that HOPE is listed in Guillet's book "The Great Migration"-- but I do not have the book, and do not know exactly what it information it may have for me regarding this ship. If anyone on the list has this book, could you look up what it has on the ship HOPE, for year 1857? Many thanks, in advance, Lisa Conrad -- < http://home.earthlink.net/~southronaldsay/ >