I want help finding a passenger list for the above ship in which Clara P Dawes sailed from her homeland England Clara b. 11 April 1866 Stourgridge Worcestershire sailed with father Alfred Dawes b. abt 1835 Cookley and sister Edith b 1875 England I have her diary and this is the info I have gathered from the account Left Londonderry 14 March and arrived in Halifax Sunday March 24 150 immediatie passengers, mostly children Entertainment by former caption of the Parision, Captain Smith Another passenger was Mrs.Wells Took train to Quebec.. she stated she was not in the Canadian Pacific passengers but "we belong to the Grand Trunk" arriving March 26. Does anyone know what that means? Crossed the St Lawrence through a tubular bridge 2 miles long on to Montreal. Destination was Hamilton Ontario where her brothers Ernest b 1870 in Derbyshire and Fred b 1868 also Derbyshire were living. An interesting side comment.... May 24th Queens Birthday we saw "grand and wonderful Falls, the Wonder of the World, The Canadian Falls by far grander." Thanks for any assisitance. Shannah

Hi Shannah, At 04:13 PM 2006-07-11 -0500, Shannah Gillespie wrote: >I want help finding a passenger list for the above ship in which Clara P >Dawes sailed from her homeland England >Clara b. 11 April 1866 Stourgridge Worcestershire >sailed with father Alfred Dawes b. abt 1835 Cookley and sister Edith b >1875 England > >I have her diary and this is the info I have gathered from the account >Left Londonderry 14 March and arrived in Halifax Sunday March 24 >150 immediatie passengers, mostly children >Entertainment by former caption of the Parision, Captain Smith >Another passenger was Mrs.Wells Marj has commented about some of your questions, so I will tell you how to find the passenger list. From the CD-ROM --"TheShipsList Passenger Ship Arrivals Canadian Ports 1865-1899"-- http://theshipslist.com/cdrom/index.htm Reel Number Ship Name Departure Information Arrival Information Shipping Line Special Group(s) Remarks C-4514 PARISIAN Liverpool, England 1889-03-14 / Londonderry, Ireland 1889-03-15 Halifax, N.S. 1889-03-24 / Portland, ME (MTL) Montreal Ocean Steamship Company (Allan Line) (J): Boys to Stratford (76) Captain Joseph Ritchie 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 from Ottawa, to libraries in the US, and outside North America. These microfilms contain arrivals from ALL ports, they are not indexed. The LDS also have copies of this microfilm, their number LDS number 0889433 ~ 1889 to 1891 port of Halifax Good Luck Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/