fyi -----Original Message----- From: Van Kalmthout, Frank (MBS) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: February 5, 2001 9:31 AM To: ARCAN-L (E-mail); BIBCANLIB-L (E-mail); SLA Toronto Listserv (E-mail); Archives & Archivists Listserv (E-mail); '[email protected]' Subject: [SLA-CTOR:112] Rare Immigration Records Now Available on Microfilm/De rares regi stres d'immigration sont maintenant disponibles sur microfilms Posted on behalf of the Archives of Ontario: (le texte français suit l'anglais) * Rare Immigration Records Now Available on Microfilm * The Archives of Ontario is pleased the announce the availability of Rare Immigration Records. About the Records: Thanks to financial support from the Friends of the Archives of Ontario, the Archives has acquired a set of highly significant Canadian immigration records from Columbia University. While at Columbia, they were known as the Toronto Emigration Office Records, or more informally as the Hawke Papers. These records, which date from 1831-1892, were mainly compiled by Anthony Bowden Hawke and his successor J. A. Donaldson. Hawke was the first specialized emigrant agent assigned to assist immigrants in settling Upper Canada (which became Canada West, and then Ontario). He served as Chief Emigrant Agent for a number of years. This important collection is now part of the Archives' larger collection of Provincial Immigration Records (RG 11). It includes official correspondence and records which document assistance provided to immigrants in the form of transportation, food, and shelter. Of particular note are records of assistance provided to widows, orphans, and others who fled to Canada during the difficult Irish famine time period. Earliest in date are financial records containing accounts of A.B. Hawke, Peter Robinson, Alexander McDonell and others. While the records originate mainly from the Toronto and Kingston emigrant offices, records of arrivals and destinations pertaining to other locations are also included. Some registers document the arrival of young children, including "Barnardo's Boys", who were among the more than 100,000 British Home Children sent to Canada between 1870 and 1940. These papers will be of immense value to genealogists and scholars studying immigration patterns and conditions of life in nineteenth-century Ontario. As of Thursday, February 1, 2001 microfilm of these important records will be available to the public in one of two ways: (1) In person, in the Main Reading room of the Archives of Ontario (77 Grenville Street, Toronto, Ontario) on self service microfilm. Information about the opening times of the main reading room are available on the Archives of Ontario Web page at the following link - http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/about/locate.htm (2) On interloan from the Archives of Ontario to your local library. To find out more about the Archives of Ontario Interloan program and to determine what is available for loan please see the online Interloan catalogue at the following Archives of Ontario web page: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/index.html or the separate page for the Immigration records at: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/i-immigration-t.htm For more information about the records and to see samples of original pages, visit the Archives' website at: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/hawkes.htm Important Note: THE ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO IS NOT ABLE TO CONDUCT RESEARCH. Microfilm copies of the records may be accessed using one of the two methods described above. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ This list is provided by SLA as a service to its members. SLA assumes no responsibility for the statements and opinions discussed on this list.