Bill, I can tell you of my recent experience - hope it may be of some help. Family lore was that my grandmother returned to Nova Scotia from England, with her two children, in April 1919. This was as soon as she was able to get passage after the war ended. I also knew that they had arrived in Saint John and travelled overland to Halifax. Some time ago I requested an inter-archive loan of film from Ottawa of the Canadian passenger lists for the relevant period. Here's a link for how you can get started, if you want to try this. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-908.003-e.html The film was very difficult to read and despite putting a lot of effort into it I was unsuccessful in my search. I didn't expect to really learn anything particularly significant; I was just curious to find the name of the ship, and the precise date of arrival, things I didn't ever remember hearing from my mother. Then a few months ago the "findmypast" site updated their (indexed) passenger lists, recorded from the British side, to include the decade I needed (I think they are still just up to 1919, but should get the next decade soon). I searched their site (this part is free): http://www.findmypast.com/Migration.jsp and found what seemed to be my family. I then paid to view the images I wanted (I think I paid about 7 pounds) and indeed everything checked out. I learned that the ship was the Melita, but it had sailed from Liverpool 21 Feb 1919, earlier than I had expected. This suggested to me that I get the next earlier period of film from Ottawa, which is actually here on loan for me right now. The very last ship on this earlier film is the Melita, arriving Saint John on 6 March 1919. So I had been off by about a month, explaining why I couldn't find my family the first time. Sorry to be so long-winded about this. Regards, John Cordes On [2007-06-14 at 07:55pm] Bill White <billwhite@mountaincable.net> wrote: > Is there a way to when a family landed in Halifax from England in the 1920's? Thanks.