While looking for information on an 1819 arrival I saw this note. Montreal Gazette, June 16, 1819 The celebrated ship Isabella, which bore the flag of Capt. Ross, in the late voyage to the Polar Regions, sailed lately from Hull, for America, with 200 English passengers, men, women and children. The emigration from that part is prodigious, and continually increasing. They are of all descriptions, but chiefly persons who possess a little property. The loss of so many valuable citizens, in this season of national difficulty, cannot easily be estimated. The Montreal Gazette was not a chatty paper in 1819. It was a small weekly paper and printed in both English and French. Hull was quite an important port for emigrants from Yorkshire and area until about 1840. However with the opening of railways, emigrants started to cross England by train and sail from Liverpool which was more conveniently situated. The Isabella was an Arctic whaler which was the leading ship in an expedition in 1818 to Lancaster Sound in Northern Canada under Captain John Ross. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------