At The Olive Tree Genealogy, there is a page on the section of Ships Passenger Lists To Canada, which explains what lists are available at the National Archives of Canada (NAC) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tocanp01.shtml There are a few lists pertaining to British-subsidized immigration schemes for the period 1817-1831. These are found in Colonial Office Records,Groups 384 & 385. This set of records is correspondence of the Secretary of State on immigration for 1817-1857. There are 60 reels of microfilm for Vols 1-99. There are lists of immigrants, and entry books re immigration, and assisted emigration to British North America. These must be ordered offline . Details are given at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/articles/immcanpre1865.shtml Passenger lists before 1865 weren't required, and are sometimes difficult to find. On TheShipsList website there are ship arrivals extracted from contemporary newspapers. See http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/vessels.html You can also try inGeneas, the online searchable database of early immigration to Canada. Some records are free, others must be paid for, but the search and it's results are free http://www.ingeneas.com/ There are some lists to Canada pre 1865 on The Olive Tree Genealogy. http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tocanp01.shtml You should also see http://olivetreegenealogy.com/articles/immcanpre1865.shtml This explains what's available and where it can be found This page includes links to two Special Collections re Passengers to Canada pre 1865 If you want to search online, you may have limited success because only a very small percentage of ships to Canada have been transcribed and put online. However here are two search engines to make your search time more efficient (and hopefully more successful!) Both these search engines search dozens of websites at once. http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml and http://www.searchforancestors.com/records/passenger_tocanada.html Good luck Kathi > > Seeking passenger list info on the following emigrant ships from Scotland > to > > Pictou, 1801: > > > > Ship, Alexander, 1801, no other info. > > Ship, Good Intent, 1801, Aberdeen, 3 mos. passage. > > Ship, Hope of Lossiemouth, 1801, 72 tons, Isle Martin, 100 passengers from > > Strathglass. > > Ship, Nora, 1801, Ft. William 16 weeks passage, 500 passengers, 65 > children > > died from small pox. > > > > any assistance on the above named ships is GREATLY appreciated in advance > by > > myself and other researchers who have been looking for the other ships > that > > arrived in Pictou in 1801 besides the Sarah and the Dove!! > > > > Thanks! > > > > Dianne McLean > > > > > > >