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| The other large group of settlers was the Ukrainians who first settled near Gretna in 1892. Between 1895 and the late 1920s large numbers of people came to Manitoba from Ukraine. As the homestead land in the south was taken, they moved to areas in northwest Manitoba primarily near Gladstone and Dauphin. | | The other large group of settlers was the Ukrainians who first settled near Gretna in 1892. Between 1895 and the late 1920s large numbers of people came to Manitoba from Ukraine. As the homestead land in the south was taken, they moved to areas in northwest Manitoba primarily near Gladstone and Dauphin. |
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| === Immigration Department Records - RG 76 ===
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| At the [http://www.collectionscanada.ca Library and Archives Canada] is an important source of information for those searching immigrant ancestors, Record Group 76. Record Group 76 contains a sample of the documents created by the Central Registry of the Immigration Branch of the Department of the Interior from 1892 to about 1952. The finding aid for the records is part of the database found on ArchivaNet under “Government of Canada Files.” If you go to the “advanced search” section and enter finding aid 76-5 you will be able to see just how extensive these records are. Those records that contain names of people have the term “lists” in the description. The records are found on 583 microfilms which are available through interlibrary loan.
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| Information about the children who were brought to Canada under various child immigration schemes between 1869 and the early 1930s can be found in RG-76. To find the records you want, consult Library and Archives Canada and search “Government of Canada Files” - RG -76. There is also a separate database with names of the juvenile immigrants who are often referred to as Home Children. This database is continually added to by the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa. Many of these children ended up on farms in Manitoba.
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| *[http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/homeadd.html Young Immigrants to Canada]<br>
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| *[http://www.canadianhomechildren.ca/ The Canadian Centre For Home Children]
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| === Likachev-Ragosine-Mathers or LI-RA-MA Collection 1898-1922 ===
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| [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/ Library and Archives Canada] has the LI-RA-MA Collection 1898-1922 which consists of documents created by the Imperial Russian Consular offices in Canada. The collection of background questionnaires and passport applications for 11,400 Russian and East European immigrants who settled in Canada between 1898 and 1922. Many of the documents are written in Russian Cyrillic. There is a detailed description about the collection at the beginning of each index reel. The microfilms can be borrowed through interlibrary loan.
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| ==== Guide ====
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| *Dan Somers. “The Likachev-Ragosine-Mathers Collection: Russian Consular Records at the National Archives of Canada.” ''Saskatchewan Genealogical Society Bulletin ''24 (June 1993).
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| <ref>Hanowski, Laura. "Manitoba Immigration and Naturalization Records (National Institute)," ''National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Manitoba_Immigration_and_Naturalization_Records_%28National_Institute%29.</ref>
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| === Alternate Sources to Find Immigrants to Manitoba ===
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| ==== United States Passenger Lists and Border Crossing Records ====
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| Many immigrants coming to Manitoba lived in the United States for a number of years before coming to Canada. They likely would have landed at United States ports and are part of the United States passenger lists. Microfilm copies of these lists can be borrowed through interlibrary loan from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
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| The list of microfilm numbers are found on the [http://www.archives.gov NARA website]. The Family History Library also has copies of the passenger lists.
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| There is a database for those arriving at New York City who passed through the immigration station at Ellis Island between 1892-1924 at the [http://www.ellisisland.org/ Ellis Island Foundation website]. <br>
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| Other immigrants coming to western Canada arrived at Canadian ports but boarded trains that travelled through the United States to Winnipeg. If they came by this route between 1895 and 1954 they would be part of the Canada/United States Border Crossing Records.
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| These records are referred to as the '''St. Albans Lists.''' One of the pieces of information in these records is the date and port where they arrived in Canada. Microfilm copies of these lists can be borrowed through interlibrary loan from the National Archives and Records Administration. The list of microfilm numbers are found on the [http://www.archives.gov NARA website]. The Family History Library also has a set of the St. Albans Lists.
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| ===== Guides =====
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| *Eakle, Arlene and John Cerny, editors. ''The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy''. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1984. <br>
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| *''Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals'': ''A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications''. Washington, D.C.: National Archives Trust Fund Board, U.S. General Service Administration, 1983. <br>
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| *Smith, Marian L. “By Way of Canada: U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border 1895-1954 (St. Albans Lists.) ''Prologue'' 32 (Fall 2000). Available online at NARA website. <br>
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| *Szucs, Loretto Dennis and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, editors. ''The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy.'' Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1996.
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| ==== The Direct and Indirect Hamburg Passenger Lists ====
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| Before 1900 ships from the port of Hamburg did not come directly to Canada but went to United States ports. Because ships did not leave every day many immigrants would take small vessels from Hamburg to ports on the east coast of England and then travel by train to Liverpool where they boarded ships going to Canada. These people are listed on the Indirect Passenger Lists. The lists of those people who traveled to North America via Hamburg are written in German but are most valuable because they list the village and country of origin. There are indexes to the records which are arranged chronologically by the letter of the alphabet. Copies of the indexes and records are found on microfilm at the Family History Library. Check the research guide available online for more details.
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| The [http://www.hamburg/de Hamburg Museum] has a passenger list database that can be checked for free, but there is a fee for detailed information. The database expects to have an index that covers 1890-1914. The records for the direct and indirect lists are available from 1890 to the end of 1906, but are being updated regularly. The site is in German but you can find the English pages if you click on the Union Jack at the top of the page or the line “Link to Your Roots” on the left hand side of the page.<ref>Hanowski, Laura. "Manitoba Alternate Immigration Records (National Institute)," ''National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Manitoba_Alternate_Immigration_Records_%28National_Institute%29.</ref>
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| == References == | | == References == |