Hi all, Have been watching this thread and wanted to post it in case it helps someone. BTW, the ShipsList is an excellent resource to locate passenger lists and emigration/immigration info for anyone who is at that point in their research. Subscription info is at the bottom of the post. Jana Subject: Re: Irish to America Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:50:09 +0000 From: brendan riley <genoans@sierra.net> To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com References: 1 Is there a similar book or article that focuses on the 1825-30 period, for immigrants coming from Ireland to Canada? My family (Riley) wound up in the Kingston, Ont., area. Other surnames include McComb, Judge, Lawson. Brendan Riley. Marj Kohli wrote: > Frank, > > There are a couple of books which were done for the 1847 year as that was > the bad year when over 8,000 people died of fever on the boats or in > hospital upon arrival. > > "A Register of Deceased Persons at Sea and on Grosse Ile in 1847" is from > Parts Canada. The same people also wrote a book with the day to day events > on Grosse Ile. (For those who do not know, Grosse Ile was the quarantine > station.) There are a few others but none that I know of with names in them > (except for the list of deaths and sometimes a few births or marriages if > they took place on Grosse Ile. I have asked Parks Canada how people can > obtain copies of this book but have not yet had a reply. Will let people > know when I hear. > > Regards.. > > At 08:59 AM 98/08/26 EDT, FranksFarm@aol.com wrote: > >Hi, > > > >There's been a lot of discussion about fares from Ireland being much cheaper > >to Canada than NY. > > > >I've looked at Michael tepper's outstanding work "The Famine Immigrants" > >which contains passenger lists from 1846-1851 to US. > > > >Is there a similar resource for this period to Canadian Ports.? > > > >If not what records might be available for looking up same? > > > >Thanks. Frank > > > > > >==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== > >*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > >TO CONTACT Sharon mailto:todt@castles.com > >LISTOWNERS: Gery & Sue mailto:swig@ns.sympatico.ca > >*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*