On 15|7|06 8:36 pm, "TheShipsList-D-request@rootsweb.com" <TheShipsList-D-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > From: Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca> > Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:29:09 -0300 > To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TSL] SS Canada 1924 > > Hello Aodh, > > At 07:10 PM 2006-07-13 -0300, Aodh O Canainn wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am carrying out research on my father, Hugh Canning, who went to Quebec on >> the SS Canada in August 1924. He joined the vessel by the tender from >> Belfast and boarded it about 11.30 am on Sunday 12th August 1924. It arrived >> in Quebec on Sunday 19th August 1924 at about 10.00 am. > > The Dominion Line and White Star-Dominion Line ship CANADA had these August > arrivals in 1923 and 1924. I included 1923 as the arrival date is closer > to what you have written . . also, Sunday the 19th of August was in 1923, > so Quebec on August 19th and Montreal August 20th fit very well with an > August 12th departure date. In 1924 the closest Sunday dates in August, > were the 17th and the 24th. > > Ship Name Departure Information Arrival Information > CANADA Liverpool, England Quebec, Que. 1923-08-19 / Montreal, Que. > 1923-08-20 > CANADA Liverpool, England Quebec, Que. 1924-08-15 / Montreal, Que. > 1924-08-16 > > There is no passenger lists in the form of the "big-sheet" manifest which > we are all used to, rather, for the period 1919-1924 there were single > manifest sheets for each passenger called Form 30A > http://www.theshipslist.com/Research/canadarecords.htm#1924 > > Form 30A records are ALL ports for the whole period 1919-1924 and are > in the form of a single manifest sheet for each passenger. The reels > will include all years mixed in together, but they are NOT in strict > alphabetical order, so make sure you scroll right through until you find > who you are searching. As Form 30A reels contain ALL Canadian arrivals 1919 > to 1924, they will also include those who arrived via a US port, but stated > their intention to proceed directly to Canada. Sue, I am very grateful for your very helpful reply. First of all you are quite right about the year, i.e. 1923. I will now ask the National Library in Dublin to request an ILL of the microfilm which you specified. It's a pity that "big-sheet" manifests were replaced by single manifest sheets for the period in question. Perhaps I can find a record of all the passengers from the White Star files if they exist. Failing that there might be records of the Emigration Service or whatever organisation looked after the Harvester scheme. Thanks for introducing me to the Canadian Library and Archive site which is excellent. Regards Aodh