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emigrating to canada1900-1912
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Robert | Report | 14 Dec 2006 13:58 |
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why did familys emigrate to canada in 1900 to1912 where id they leave from and where did they arrive at in canada |
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Carol71 | Report | 14 Dec 2006 16:20 |
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http://www.searchforancestors.com/records/passenger_tocanada.html Ancestry is free for search here, until 31 dec. Most ships had many ports to enter Canada, but Halifax Nova Scotia was the prominent one in the 1900s-There was also Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island in Canada and Maine, New York, and Boston in USA They mostly left fro Greenock Scotland, Ireland, and Liverpool England, but they were other ports. A good URL: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-908.003.02-e.html regards, Carol |
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Carol71 | Report | 14 Dec 2006 16:29 |
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MargaretM | Report | 14 Dec 2006 17:14 |
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Why did families emigrate to Canada? Quite simply, because it's the best country in the world in which to live! Margaret (Guess where I emigrated to) |
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Jenny | Report | 15 Dec 2006 04:41 |
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I agree with you Margaret... Jenny (another immigrant) |
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Lisa J in California | Report | 15 Dec 2006 06:56 |
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Living in the States now, but still a proud Canadian....:) Found an article on immigration http://www*cic.gc.ca/english/department/transport/chap-1a.html (replace * with .) '... By the turn of the century, the economic depression that had gripped Europe and North America had lifted. The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) had been completed in 1885. There was a strong demand for Canadian wheat, but the problem was finding the people to populate the Prairies and work the farmland to meet that demand. Sir Clifford Sifton, who became Minister of the Interior in Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal government elected in 1896, took up the challenge. Sifton simplified regulations, making it easier for immigrants to stake out their own homesteads....' And another article on this site http://www*ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/canada1891/5frame.html 'Immigration and Migration Patterns 1891-1921' |
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Charles | Report | 16 Dec 2006 11:08 |
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Interesting comments .... I have two relatives who left for Canada around that time. One to Winnipeg and the other to Saskatoon. My mother remembers their children returning with the Canadian armed forces in WW2 and visiting the family. |
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TinaTheCheshirePussyCat | Report | 16 Dec 2006 11:33 |
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I am really just bookmarking this thread so that I can look at the recommended sites when I have time. My husband's grandparents emigrated to Canada about 1910/1911 separately (grandma went with her older sister, grandfather followed older sister and ended up marrying the younger one!). They both worked for other people in Saskatchewan. I have found them on the 1911 Canadian census, as yet unmarried. Sometime, we think later in 1911, they married in Canada, obtained a land grant, but then returned to England certainly before 1916. I am still looking for the marriage. Tina |
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