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• Ancestry.com - Search Immigration & Travel

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • Irish Canadian Emigration Records, 1823-1849

    Original source: Neilson collection, Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal, 1823-1849. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d. MG 24, B1 vols. 21 and 22. Microfilm Reel C-15773.; Names of Orphan Children, 1847. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d. RG 4, C1, vol. 204, file 3036. Microfilm Reel H-2487.

• Ancestry.com - U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960 $

  Original source: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, RG 85. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - Vancouver, British Columbia, Manifests of Chinese Arrivals, 1906-1912, 1929-1941 $

  Original source: Passenger Lists of Chinese Arrivals at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, January 1906-June 1912; (National Archives Microfilm Publication A3414, 2 rolls); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Lists of Chinese Passengers Arriving at Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 1929–January 1941 (National Archives Microfilm Publication A3446, 10 rolls). Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• By Way of Canada U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1895-1954 (St. Albans Lists)

  From Prologue Magazine by Marian L. Smith.

• FamilySearch - United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956 ^FREE

  This database contains an index of aliens and citizens crossing into the U.S. from Canada via various ports of entry along the U.S.-Canadian border between 1895 and 1956. Data courtesy of Ancestry.com.

• FamilySearch - Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954 ^FREE

  This collection contains an index to Canadian border entries through the St. Albans, Vermont, District, 1895-1954 and corresponds with NARA collections M1461, M1463, M1464, M1465.

• FamilySearch Wiki - Canadian Migration Routes

• FamilySearch Wiki - Canadian Migration Routes

• Findmypast - Canada- Railways, Steamships & Steamboats In Canada $

  Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

• Findmypast - Canada, Home Children Immigration Records Index, 1869-1930 $

  Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

• Findmypast - Canada, Immigrants To Canada Index, 1750-1854 $

  Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

• Findmypast - United States, Canadian Border Crossings $

  Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

• Great Migration of Canada (Wikipedia)

  "The Great Migration of Canada (also known as the Great Migration from Britain or the second wave of immigration to Canada) was a period of high immigration to Canada from 1815 to 1850, which involved over 800,000 immigrants, mainly of British and Irish origin."

• Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937

  The database contains 33,036 references to immigrants who stayed, were born, married or buried at the Grosse Île Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937.

• Immigrants to Canada 1930-1950 $

  The names of those found

• Immigrants to Canada in Nineteenth Century - Ships - Emigration Reports - Emigration Handbooks

• Immigrants to Canada, Porters and Domestics, 1899-1949 - Library and Archives Canada

• Irish Famine Migration To New Brunswick, 1845

  Searchable database from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.

• Library and Archives Canada - Border Entries

• Library and Archives Canada - Home Children

  Between 1869 and the late 1930s, over 100,000 juvenile migrants were sent to Canada from the British Isles during the child emigration movement.