Sue My grandfather landed at S. John 18 March 1911 on the Empress of Britain. He entered the U.S. at Detroit. Looking at the map of Canada did he then travel by train to Montreal from St. John and then by another train to Detroit? It seems to me that St. John is a long way from Montreal. Naomi in Illinois Sue wrote: > > 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." >