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Emigration and Immigration

Online Resources

• Online Listing of 1500 of the first families to arrive in New Brunswick.
• Passenger Lists, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index.
• Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954, index and images.
• Vermont, Passenger Lists, 1895-1924

Canadian Border Crossing Records

The United States kept records of people crossing the border from Canada to the United States. These records are called border crossing lists, passenger lists, or manifests. There are two kinds of manifests:

• Manifests of people sailing from Canada to the United States.
• Manifests of people traveling by train from Canada to the United States.

In 1895, Canadian shipping companies agreed to make manifests of passengers traveling to the United States. The Canadian government allowed U.S. immigration officials to inspect those passengers while they were still in Canada. The U.S. immigration officials also inspected train passengers traveling from Canada to the United States. The U.S. officials worked at Canadian seaports and major cities like Québec and Winnipeg. The manifests from every seaport and emigration station in Canada were sent to St. Albans, Vermont.

Contents

Title of Collection	NARA Microfilm (# Rolls)	FHL (Starting Roll#)	Type	Special Conditions
Soundex Index to Canadian Border Entries through the St. Albans, Vermont, District, 1895-1924	M1461 (400 rolls. Missing roll 218)	1472801	Index	Soundex name index to entries at ports along the border and Great Lakes. Includes • ALL manifest lists from 1895-1917. • After June 1917, includes only arrivals east of North Dakota-Montana state line. Anyone entering west of this state line after 1917 was filed in Seattle. • 1915 to 1924 indexes cover ports east of Buffalo, New York only. In most cases, an original manifest exists. Some index cards are the only record of crossing, with no original manifest.
Alphabetical Index to Canadian Border Entries through Small Ports in Vermont, 1895-1924	M1462 (6 rolls)	1430987	Index	Arranged alphabetically by ports of entry, all in Vermont. Especially useful for identifying Canadians who settled in the New England area.
Soundex Index to Entries into the St. Albans, Vermont, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1924-1952	M1463 (98 rolls)	1570714	Index	Includes border crossings in New York and Vermont area.
Manifests of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, Vermont, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954	M1464 (640 rolls)	1561087	Original manifests	Manifests indexed by the above Soundex indexes. These forms were completed when the immigrant entered the U.S. through a border port station. Most European immigrants will be found in these lists.
Manifests of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, Vermont, District through Canadian Pacific Ports, 1929-1949	M1465 (25 rolls)	1549387	Original manifests	Supplement to the above manifests. These manifests list travelers to the United States from Canadian Pacific seaports only.
Card Manifests (Alphabetical) of Individuals Entering through the Port of Detroit, Michigan, 1906-1954	M1478, M1479 (140 rolls)	1490449	Original card manifests	Original card manifests, arranged alphabetically, for Michigan ports of entry only: Bay City, Detroit, Port Huron, Sault Sainte Marie (117 rolls). An additional 23 rolls Include passenger and alien crew lists of vessels arriving in Detroit, 1946 to 1957.

Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

The major port for the maritime provinces has always been Halifax, Nova Scotia. As with the rest of eastern Canada, New Brunswick has a few scattered ship lists for the period before 1865. The few ship lists from the Acadian period can be found at the Acadian Center, Moncton University. There are a few British ship lists from about 1815 to 1860 on microfilm reels F-1697 and F-1698 at the National Archives of Canada.

The Provincial Archives has recently indexed a series of passenger lists. The sub-series RS23E consists of the passenger lists. These lists are for the following ports and years:

• St. John—1816, 1833, 1834, 1838
• St. Andrews—1837, 1838
• Bathurst—1837