Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935

(Toronto, ON – 16^th of September 2008) In a world first, Ancestry.ca, Canada’s leading family history website, today launched online the Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935, which contains more than 7.2 million names, including 5.6 million of those who travelled from around the world to start a new life in Canada.

Digitizing and indexing the collection took approximately 83,000 man hours, or the equivalent of a person working 24 hours a day, seven days a week for almost 10 years.

Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 - Ancestry.ca

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008.

Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Passenger Lists, 1865-1935. Ottawa, Canada: Library and Archives Canada. RG76, T-479 to T-520, T-4689 to T-4874, T-14700 to T-14939, C-4511 to C-4542.

About Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935

This database contains passenger lists of ships arriving in various Canadian ports, as well as a few eastern U.S. ports, from 1865-1935. Information listed in these records includes: name of passenger, age, gender, marital status, birth country, nationality, occuaption, and religious affiliation.

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This database contains passenger lists of ships arriving in various Canadian ports, as well as a few eastern U.S. ports, from 1865-1935. Specifically, this database includes records for the following ports and years:

Quebec Ports (May 1865-Jun 1908, Jun 1919-Jul 1921, Apr 1925-Nov 1935)

Montreal, Quebec (Apr 1925-Nov 1935)

Halifax, Nova Scotia (1881-Oct 1922, 1925-1935)

North Sydney, Nova Scotia (Nov 1906, Aug 1908-Aug 1922, 1925-1935)

Saint John, New Brunswick (1900-Sep 1922, 1925-1935)

Vancouver, British Columbia (1905-Sep 1922, 1925-1935)

Victoria, British Columbia and Pacific Ports (Apr 1905-Sep 1922, 1925-1935)

Eastern U.S. Ports (Jul 1905-Feb 1919, 1925-1928)

New York (1906-1921)

About the Records:

Passengers listed in these records include returning Canadian citizens, immigrants, individuals in transit to the U.S., and visitors to Canada.

Passenger lists were the official immigration records of Canada from 1865-1935. The forms used and the information recorded on them varied throughout the years. Later years usually recorded more details. Depending on the form, information recorded may include:

Name of passenger

Age

Gender

Marital status

Whether ever been in Canada before; If so, when, where, and how long

Whether intend to permanently reside in Canada

Whether able to read and write

Birth country

Race of people

Destination

Occupation

Religious denomination

Port of arrival

Date of arrival

Port of embarkation

Ship name

Shipping line

Related Records:

From 1919-1924 individual manifest forms (Form 30A) were often used instead of passenger lists as the official immigration record. The use of Form 30A, also known as “Ocean Arrivals”, accounts for the most of the gaps in years covered in this database. Ancestry will be adding the “Ocean Arrivals” records in the coming months. If you do not find an individual in this database, you may want to try searching the “Ocean Arrivals” records.

Please choose a port:

To browse passenger list information, click on a port. Subsequent screens will allow you to select additional date information.

Eastern US Ports Halifax, Nova Scotia Montreal, Quebec New York, New York, USA North Sydney, Nova Scotia Quebec, Quebec Saint John, New Brunswick Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia and Pacific Ports