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Passenger arrival records can help you determine when an ancestor arrived and the port of departure. They can also help identify family and community members who arrived together and, usually, the country they came from. | Passenger arrival records can help you determine when an ancestor arrived and the port of departure. They can also help identify family and community members who arrived together and, usually, the country they came from. | ||
There are very few passenger lists for ships coming into Canada before 1865. Lists were not made or were destroyed. The Library and Archives Canada website has posted an index of some lists that have survived. Some of these indexed names have been gathered from declarations of aliens and names of some Irish orphans. Go to: [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/immigrants-canada/index-e.html www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/immigrants-canada/index-e.html] | There are very few passenger lists for ships coming into Canada before 1865. Lists were not made or were destroyed. The Library and Archives Canada website has posted an index of some lists that have survived. Some of these indexed names have been gathered from declarations of aliens and names of some Irish orphans. [[ www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/immigrants-canada/index-e.html|Canada Immigrant databases]].Go to: [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/immigrants-canada/index-e.html www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/immigrants-canada/index-e.html] | ||
Other sources of lists for this period include: | Other sources of lists for this period include: | ||
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*Passenger lists for Halifax, 1881–1899. (On 12 Family History Library films beginning with film {{FHL|67797|title-id|disp=889429}}.) | *Passenger lists for Halifax, 1881–1899. (On 12 Family History Library films beginning with film {{FHL|67797|title-id|disp=889429}}.) | ||
The film numbers are in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under: | The film numbers are in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under: | ||
=== CANADA - EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION === | === CANADA - EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION === | ||