In 1854 were there many ships sailing from London to Quebec? How is it possaible to see a list of such ships, and also their passenger lists? For the latter, is it possible to enter the surname Baird to get a limited response? Any help would be greatly appreciated. William Treumann, Fargo, North Dakota USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

On 27 Apr 2006 at 21:41, bill treumann wrote: > In 1854 were there many ships sailing from London to > Quebec? How is it possaible to see a list of such > ships, and also their passenger lists? There are no comprehensive lists of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to 1865. Until that year, shipping companies were not required by the government to keep their passenger manifests. You might find an ancestor in correspondence of the Secretary of State on immigration for 1817-1857. There are lists of immigrants, mainly Irish, 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 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 On TheShipsList website they are including Quebec ship arrivals extracted from contemporary newspapers. See http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/index.htm 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. A search engine for InGeneas is at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml There are also some passenger lists which were kept by shipping agents in the originating country. For example, the Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents gives sailings from Londonderry to Philadelphia PA, Quebec, and St. John New Brunswick from 1847 to 1871. Olive Tree has some passenger lists from these records online, and will be adding more as time permits. For an index of clickable links to those JJ Cooke passenger lists online to date, see http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke.shtml 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. You can also check out the pages for ships passenger lists Ships Passenger Lists to Quebec http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/qu_ships.shtml Good luck! Lorine --New Databases online http://olivetreegenealogy.com/freedata.shtml

Bill There were a number of ships but because Canada did not archive passenger lists until 1865 there will not be a record. Few lists from pre-1865 exist. So, sorry to say there is no way you can type in a name and get an answer. Regards.. Marj At 12:41 AM 4/28/2006, bill treumann wrote: >In 1854 were there many ships sailing from London to >Quebec? How is it possaible to see a list of such >ships, and also their passenger lists? For the >latter, is it possible to enter the surname Baird to >get a limited response? > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > William Treumann, Fargo, North Dakota USA > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > > >==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== >To UNSUBSCRIBE from LIST - mailto:TheShipsList-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com >To UNSUBSCRIBE from DIGEST - mailto:TheShipsList-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com >Leave Subject Line empty * Put Only: UNSUBSCRIBE in body of message >*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~