Seeking contact with others researching this same route. Frederick Wilheim BOLLERT and several family members immigrated to Canada about 1852. According to a family letter, they sailed from Bremen to Halifax when their son, Ernest Robert BOLLERT was two years old. He was born in Schleusingen, Suhl, Thuringia, Germany on 9 Jul 1850 . From Halifax , they traveled by train to Berlin, Ontario. Their next child was born in Berlin (Kitchener) in 1854. branches@widomaker.com http://www.widomaker.com/~branches/