Library and Archives Canada
Databases
Exploration and Settlement Databases
Moving Here, Staying Here
Passenger lists 1865-1922
On the Library and Archives Canada website.
Quebec City passenger lists index 1865-1900
On the Library and Archives Canada website. Included in the Ancestry site above, but with free access.
Canadian Genealogy Centre
Features include an index to arrivals 1925-1935, a naturalization index and more.
Upper Canada and Canada West Naturalization Records, 1828 to 1850
Home Children 1869-1930
Immigrants from China
Government of Canada files
Thematic Guides
Montreal Circuit Court 1851 to 1945
Naturalization database 1915-1932
Li-Ra-Ma (from the Russian Empire)
Contact information
Mailing address:
Genealogy Unit
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N4
How to get copies
They can also be sent by fax to: (613) 995-6274
Or send orders by mail to:
Library and Archives Canada
Services Branch
Consultation Services
395 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N4
Canadian federal government
Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900-1977
One Hundred Years of Immigration to Canada
Citizenship and Immigration Canada -- application form for an immigration document
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Public Rights Administration
360 Laurier Ave. W.
10th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1L1
Citizenship and Immigration Canada -- application form, permanent resident card
Access to Information Request Form
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Public Rights Administration
360 Laurier Ave. W.
10th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1L1
Searches of the National Registration of 1940
Census Pension Searches Unit
Census Operations Division
Statistics Canada
B1E-34 Jean Talon Building
Tunney's Pasture
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6
Ancestry
Ancestry main page
Arrivals 1919-1924
Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
Passenger and Immigration List Index, 1500s-1900s
Border crossing records, to Canada, 1908-1935
To search for people entering Canada from the United States.
Border crossing records, to the United States, 1895-1956
U.K. incoming passenger lists 1878-1960
This collection includes records of passengers arriving in the British Isles from Canada (and other non-European countries). It is a good source for finding people who returned to the British Isles to live or for a visit.
Other sources
FamilySearch
Emigration Information from the Nineteenth Century
Lists of ships sailing to Canada, the ports, and the people.
Young Immigrants to Canada
The Ships List
Provides information on the ships used by our ancestors, as well as 1,800 passenger lists.
Olive Tree Genealogy
Historical and genealogical information includes Ships' Passenger Lists.
inGeneas Genealogical Resources Directory
Commercial site has searchable immigration databases that include almost 40,000 records spanning from 1748 to 1881.
New France - Bits and Pieces for the Descendants of the French Colonists of North America
Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
Pro Genealogists - Palatines
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Canadian Ports of Arrival
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Canadian Ports of Arrival
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Canadian Ports of Arrival
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Canadian Ports of Arrival
New Brunswick Irish Portal
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, including thousands of records.
Petworth Emigration Project
Island Register (Prince Edward Island)
Maritime History Archive
On the site of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Includes crew lists.
Toronto Emigrant Office Assisted Immigration Records Database
Immigration records database 1865-1883. On the Archives of Ontario website.
Archives of Ontario -- Department of Immigration
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa
Nanaimo Family History Society
The Nanaimo Family History Society has launched a remarkable project – indexing Canadian passenger lists from the early 1900s. So far, about 626,000 arrivals at Quebec, from 1905 through 1910, have been indexed.
Friends of Dave Howard Index
About 100,000 arrivals at Quebec from the 1870s to the 1890s.
Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site of Canada, Quebec
Pier 21, Canada's Immigration Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia
New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
Vancouver Maritime Museum, Canada
Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria, Canada
Germans from Russia arrivals
Halifax – 1900-1914
Quebec – 1900-1909 |
Quebec – 1909-1914
Saint John – 1900-1909 |
Saint John – 1909-1914
British Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria's Victoria, British Columbia
World Vital Records -- Filby's Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
Avotaynu
Google
Google News Archive
Google Books
eBay auction site
Abebooks - Advanced Book Exchange
Other countries
International -- Migration Museums Network
International -- Association of European Migration Associations
Czech Republic -- Kojákovice Peasant and Emigration Museum, Czech Republic
Denmark -- Danish Emigration Archives
Denmark -- Danish emigration database - Vejle
Denmark -- North Frisian Emigrant-Archive
Finland -- Institute of Migration, Turku
Finland -- Åland Islands' Emigrant Institute
France -- Museum of French Emigration to Canada, Tourouvre
Germany -- Ancestry -- Hamburg passenger lists 1850-1934
Germany -- Ancestry -- Hamburg passenger lists 1855-1934 (handwritten indexes)
Germany -- Bremen passenger list database
Germany -- German Emigrants Database at the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven
Germany -- Emigration From Southwest Germany
Germany -- Schleswig-Holstein, Germany emigration records
Germany -- German Emigration Centre Bremerhaven
Germany -- BallinStadt, the Emigration Museum Hamburg
Germany -- Rhineland Open-Air Museum, Kommern
Ireland -- Irish Emigration Database
Ireland -- Cobh Heritage Centre, Cork
Ireland -- Dunbrody Visitor Experience, New Ross
Ireland -- Famine Museum, Strokestown Park
Ireland -- Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh
Ireland -- Centre for Migration Studies, Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh
Italy -- Italian Emigrant Database
Italy -- Regional Museum of Emigration, Perugia
Netherlands -- Maritime Museum Rotterdam
Norway -- Norway Heritage
Norway -- Norway Heritage Project
Norway -- Digitalarkivet, Bergen
Norway -- Norwegian Emigrant Museum
Portugal -- Museum of Emigration and the Communities, Fafe
San Marino -- Museum of the Emigrant, San Marino
Scotland -- Digital Archive
Scotland -- Scottish Emigration Database
Scotland -- Scottish Emigration Museum
Spain -- Museum of the History of Immigration in Catalonia
Sweden -- Ancestry -- Swedish Emigration Records 1783-1951
Switzerland -- Swiss Centre of North America, incorporating Swiss Roots
United Kingdom -- The National Archives
United Kingdom -- Ancestors on Board -- outbound from the United Kingdom
Passengers outbound from England, 1890-1960. Cross-reference for your arrivals in Canada, with some years not covered by available passenger lists.
United Kingdom -- National Maritime Museum, London, England
United Kingdom -- 19 Princelet Street, London, England
United Kingdom -- Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, England
United Kingdom -- Maritime Archives and Library at Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool
United States -- Pacific Coast Immigration Museum, San Francisco
United States -- Ellis Island, New York City 1892-1924
United States -- Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York City
United States -- Castle Garden, New York City 1830-1892
United States -- National Archives and Records Administration
United States -- Stephen Morse -- aids for success with databases
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