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===Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada=== | ===Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada=== | ||
====Before 1865==== | |||
''There are very few passenger lists for ships coming into Canada before 1865 as they were destroyed or never created.''<br> | |||
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Substitute records have been used to help document individuals coming to Canada during this time but are very incomplete. They include declarations of aliens and other naturalization records, diaries, newspaper articles, and other records indicating immigration to Canada.<br> | |||
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The [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx Library and Archives of Canada website] has posted an [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/passenger-lists/Pages/introduction.aspx index] of some lists that have survived. Other databases containing information suggesting immigration are found in the [[Canada Emigration and Immigration#Online Records|Online Records]] section above.<br> | |||
====1865 to 1935==== | |||
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Library and Archives Canada does not hold copies of post-1935 records. Records of immigrants arriving at Canadian land and seaports from January 1, 1936 onwards remain in the custody of '''Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada''''. To request a copy of another person's immigration record, you must mail a signed request to the under-noted office: | Library and Archives Canada does not hold copies of post-1935 records. Records of immigrants arriving at Canadian land and seaports from January 1, 1936 onwards remain in the custody of '''Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada''''. To request a copy of another person's immigration record, you must mail a signed request to the under-noted office: | ||
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