Sue, to start with, no ships would have left Ontario. The closest port(s) would be Montreal .. and Quebec. Second, Canada did not archive passenger lists until 1865, for the port of Quebec, however, neither Canada, nor the US, maintained "outbound" (eastbound) passenger lists. You can learn a lot about shipping in and out of Quebec though, from the contemporary newspapers, and sometimes they would indicate passenger names, but usually just cabin class .. a bit like a society column. On http://theshipslist.com/ website, we have some newspaper accounts (only inbound for 1862) but an example for 1856 shows information about "outbound" ships and their cabin passengers. http://theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/Canada1856.htm We will be adding to this and 1857 is in the works. Sue -- At 01:11 PM 2002-08-03 -0700, SJarvis wrote: >I am hoping that someone may have some information on ANY ships that would >have left Ontario, Canada around the middle to end of October, of 1862. > >Is anyone doing manifest transcriptions of these ships, or only the ones >headed into the States and Canada? > >Thanks for any help. > >Sue