Dear Sherry, There were vessels frequently departing the German ports, i.e. Hamburg and Bremen, for Quebec directly. Example from the port of Hamburg In 1865: Total of 67 direct vessel departing: 6 vessels to Quebec 6 vessels to Brazil 1 vessel to Chile 5 vessels to Australia 49 vessels to New York Andrea Bentschneider _______________________________ Beyond History Wendloher Weg 8 20251 Hamburg Germany andrea@beyond-history.com www.beyond-history.com -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:10:53 -0500 From: "John Thomas" <thomas.captnt@powergate.ca> Subject: [G-P-L] Fw: ENDLEIN AND EHL OR ERHL OR ERL To: <GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <009501c6fb74$cedaed30$4e8d3b42@john33jhyzylx9> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Hello, re #2 below, if an immigrant was planning to come to Canada, landing in Quebec, not the US would they normally have gone to England first, then on to Canada on an English ship, or were there direct voyages from Bremen to Canada also. Most of what I have seen is passenger lists, ending in US ports. I know this is a long shot, I am trying to find passenger lists which would have indicated Quebec as a landing point, I understand a lot of lists did not survive, prior to 1850 or havent been documented as yet. thank you for any help on this puzzle. Sherry