At 03:12 AM 2006-09-22 -0400, Kinfind@aol.com wrote: >Hallo Listers; > >Was Montreal a port of arrival for immigrants in 1911? > >Are ship lists - ship manifests available for those arrivals? > >Thanks in advance, > >Ernie Misch Hello Ernie, Yes and no. In 1911, most ships stopped first at the port of Quebec, where all third class passengers disembarked and continued their journey by train. Of the ships which then continued to Montreal, to off-load cargo and/or load cargo for the eastbound voyage, first and second class passengers were sometimes given the option to remain on board to Montreal. Smaller ships, such as those of the Donaldson Line, carried cargo and very few passengers, so most of those would remain on board too. Montreal was also the intermediate stop for those destined to Canada or the US mid-west who had arrived via Halifax, NS or St. John, NB and US ports such as Portland or Boston. In Montreal they would switch trains to continue their journey. Montreal was also the place where the US immigration office collected the passenger lists of US destined passengers who had arrived via Canadian sea ports or crossed into the US at border ports. Those were then forwarded to the repository (now closed) at St. Albans, Vermont, which is why the CAN-US arrival manifests and the CAN-US border port manifests are collectively called "The St. Albans Lists." Yes, all those manifests are available. The Canadian lists of those arrivals are microfilmed, but not yet indexed or scanned. http://www.theshipslist.com/Research/canadarecords.htm#1919 http://www.theshipslist.com/Research/canadarecords.htm#sources The US records for those same arrivals (St. Albans Lists) are also microfilmed, are indexed, but not yet scanned. http://www.theshipslist.com/Research/canadarecords.htm#St.Albans Sue --