At 01:19 PM 2006-05-08 -0700, Diane Marvin wrote: >I am looking for ship's list for S.S. Lake Simcoe. It >sailed from Liverpool and landed in Saint John's New >Brunswick about March 14, or 15, l903. The names I am >looking for are Samoila or Samoil. First name Trifu. > >thank you for your help. > >Diane Hi Diane, What interesting names you are looking for. Don't be concerned if their nationality isn't mentioned below, as I have just indicated largish 'blocks' of immigrants by nationality. Canadian records for this period are not indexed or online yet, but I have read that film . . from my database . . Reel Number Ship Name Departure Information Arrival Information Shipping Line Special Group(s) Remarks T-505 LAKE SIMCOE Liverpool, England 1903-03-04 St. John, N.B. 1903-03-14 (BEA) Beaver Line of Steamers (Elder Dempster & Co.) (J): Mrs. Birt's boys & girls to Knowlton, Quebec (66) Mr. Drummond in charge & (O): Russian; Hungarian; Austrian; Roumanian; Greek; Italian to Canadian destinations & (O): Russian; German; Italian &c. to US destinations List Number: 42; Captain Clarence Troop; faded messy manifest I hope it isn't TOO faded and messy . . . I must have had a good reason to make that 'messy' notation, but I can't recall why :-} It is the only Canadian record for this arrival. Even when a manifest is faded, when someone is looking for a specific individual in which name / age etc. is known, they are relatively easy to find. When a manifest is faded, especially with names you are looking for, which would be unfamiliar to most others, they would probably defy accurate transcription by a non family member. Let us know if your passengers were only in transit, to the US, because if they were, there are also the St. Albans records which are CAN-US border records. The passenger manifest is on Microfilm at the Library & Archives of Canada [LAC], in Ottawa. The Ships are placed on the reel, in order of arrival. You can borrow this reel on an Inter Library Loan [ILL]. You can find the details for this procedure at this LAC Genealogy Research URL http://www.collectionscanada.ca/ill/index-e.html You are also able to ILL free of charge, from Ottawa, to libraries in the US, and outside North America. These microfilms contain arrivals from ALL ports, they are not indexed. The LAC will allow your Library to borrow up to six microfilms on your behalf, per request. The LDS now have copies of the post-1900 Canadian arrivals, so check here for links and details http://www.theshipslist.com/Research/canadarecords.htm#lds Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/