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    1. Re: [MORAY] Maggie Watson / Findlay
    2. Robin McLeod
    3. -----Original Message----- ...You likely won't find them on any immigration lists....they were British subjects, so wouldn't have had any problems coming into Canada. -------------------------- That's not entirely correct - don't confuse immigration with citizenship. It is correct that until the Canadian Citizenship Act came into force on Jan 1 1947, people born in Canada were British subjects, so immigrants born in Great Britain and the Empire/Commonwealth, being British subjects by birth, had no need to be naturalized or to obtain British citizenship in Canada. However, there were still passenger lists - which included visitors, returning Canadians, immigrating British subjects, immigrating non-British subjects and these were used as immigration records. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-908.003-e.html Also, "From June 1, 1921 to December 31, 1924, the Department of Immigration and Colonization required that individual manifests (Form 30A, RG 76 C1j) be completed and submitted to the immigration officers at the ports of arrival, instead of the large sheet passenger list manifests previously in use. A form had to be submitted for each passenger, including children, except those in transit to the United States." I have copies of the Form 30A for two of my relatives (both British subjects), who immigrated in that time period (unfortunately, the people Mandy is looking for immigrated earlier). My third relative, who immigrated in 1925, is included on a passenger list which is headed with the following " Canadian Government Return - Canadian Immigration Service" - for a ship sailing from Glasgow to Quebec. These later records include lots of information - including birthplace, occupation (at home and planned in Canada), nationality, race, nearest relative in the country from which they came, relative, friend or employer in Canada, who paid their passage, how much money they had with them, how they were travelling inland (ie CPR or CNR), and 'action taken' - stamped 'landed immigrant' - even though they were a British subject. I also have the corresponding 'Out-Going Passengers' list prepared by the Canadian Pacific Steamship line - 'Names and Descriptions of British Passengers embarked at the port of Glasgow'. Robin

    01/03/2010 06:20:21