Hello listers I've been given permission to post the following on to your sites for your information. Hope it helps someone. Joan in Australia *new* for TheShipsList website http://www.theshipslist.com/ All the new and updated files and databases have been placed on their own page(s) Find them on the front page in between the big arrows --------------> <--------------- At the bottom of each of these pages I have placed links named " previous month " and " next month " so you are able to navigate back and forth between the monthly *new & updated* pages, as I only keep three months of *new* page links on the Home page. New for January 2013 is . . . o Ship Arrivals: o Ships to Quebec 1831 (in progress) This has been much more fun than the 1835 arrivals as Marj has been scanning them for me, so I can read them well ... thanks Marj There are a few gaps which will be filled in as we go. o Passengers: o South Australia o ship Atalanta, from London via Plymouth to Port Adelaide 15th April 1866 o ship Charlotte Gladstone, from Liverpool via Plymouth to Port Adelaide 16th June 1866 o o Quebec Steamboats o Waterloo - 1st trip down, Montreal to Quebec, 16th April 1831 . . the Waterloo was sunk by ice on April 18th o St. Lawrence - 6th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 1st June 1831 o John Molson - 7th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 2nd June 1831 Two more 1866 vessels with assisted emigrants, for South Australia. As I'd said last month, the ships being hired for emigrants were becoming larger. Both ships have babies born at sea, named for the vessels. Lots more Irish on the CHARLOTTE GLADSTONE. I included the single "down" trip for the WATERLOO as she was sunk en route to Quebec. Miraculously all the passengers survived. The 28th May 1831 was a huge day for the port of Quebec, with thousands of emigrants arriving .. the newspaper noted ... The number of Emigrants arrived this forenoon was 20,126. Of these 5,737 have arrived during the past week. The number actually arrived probably exceeds by fully ten percent that stated in the return. The * Pilgrim from Newry for instance returned 150 adults, and upwards of 250 souls were found on board. The same occurred with other vessels, though not to so great an extent, At the latest dates eleven vessels had sailed from Sligo and eleven more were about to follow, all with emigrants. In former years only one vessel has been known to leave that part of Ireland with settlers. - Quebec Mercury, June 4. They crammed them aboard the steamboats. The two I have transcribed for June 2nd have 500+ but I have one yet to do with over 1,000 passengers. In 1832 they passed laws limiting the numbers of passengers who could be carried on the various classes of steamboats .. news item about that on the steamboat index page ... http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1819_36stlawrence.shtml Please share this *new* for TheShipsList website email, with any other list to which you belong if you think it might be of interest or value to those list members (in other words, on-topic). Enjoy !! Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/