Hi Lorine, Thank you for this information, I appreciate it! I will peruse the info further. I have also received a very good lead from Sue Swiggum, which has been very helpful. Janet On May 22, 2006, at 3:06 AM, TheShipsList-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > > From: "Olive Tree Genealogy" <otg@csolve.net> > Date: May 21, 2006 11:43:33 AM EDT > To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TSL] PATRICK MAGHAR, & ? HARRINGTON - Ireland to Montreal > > > On 21 May 2006 at 10:04, Janet Prata wrote: > >> Does anyone know of passenger lists of ships traveling from >> Ireland to Canada at that time? > > 1826-1846 is a challenging time frame. If you extend your > search one more year (1847) here's an idea for you. There > are 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 > > The Hawke Papers, letterbooks of Chief Emigrant Agent > Anthony B. Hawke are also available. They cover the years > 1831 to 1892. > > See the searchable database at > http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/db/hawke.htm > > 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 > to the following parts of Canada: > > Ships Passenger Lists to Quebec > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/qu_ships.shtml > > Ships Passenger Lists to New Brunswick > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/nb_ships.shtml > > Ships Passenger Lists to Nova Scotia > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/ns_ships.shtml > > Lorine > -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze > > * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ > * Naturalization Records > http://naturalizationrecords.com/ > * Images of Ships Lists > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ > > otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com > > ______________________________