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Re: [TSL] coming from NFLD
Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca> on 04/28/2009

Hi Heather,

I notice that your email hasn't been answered yet, so I'll take a crack at it.

As you undoubtedly know, but some other listers may not, Newfoundland did 
not become part of Canada until 1949.  From 1906, Canada began to archive 
passenger records of ferry arrivals from Newfoundland to North Sydney, 
Nova  Scotia , from which place they would proceed by rail.  Those are 
available through to end 1935 which is the limit for publically available 
passenger records for Canada (for privacy reasons <sigh>)  The National 
Library & Archives, Canada, has those online images available until the 
date 1912 (so far).
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/passenger/index-e.html

To date, online Halifax records are available through 1922, but many 
vessels originating at a British port destined to Halifax used St. John's 
as a way-port so quite a few Newfoundlanders embarked for Canada on those 
vessels too.
The east coast Canadian records are unindexed on the National website, 
however, Ancestry does have them indexed ... you didn't mention the surname 
&c. but as a trial I checked the surname Brow and saw an adult male and two 
boys (initials only, not together) returning to Canada after visiting 
Newfoundland over the 1911-1912 time frame, but  their residence was PEI.

The available records are indeed ferry records, but as Newfoundland was not 
part of Canada at that time, they do contain a little more information than 
you might expect.

Sue
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At 05:17 PM 2009-04-20 -0700, Heather Brow wrote:
>  Is there any way to find out where some one would have left NFLD to go 
> to Nova Scotia.My gr grangfather came from NFLD to Truro N.S. before Nov. 1917
>Where can I find any records of departure or arrivel for the time between 
>1895 and 1917.
>Thank you
>Heather Brow


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