The index is copyright by the Nanaimo Family History Society. You are
permitted to download and use it for your own research only. Any other
use requires the permission of the Nanaimo Family History Society.
The Columns
General - If
the transcriber couldn't make out a portion of what was written out in
a column, those
letters (or letter) were replaced by “?”. If the transcriber could see
something was written in a column but couldn't make it out,
“illegible” was used. If it was blank, then the column was
left blank.
Surname -
The list is sorted by surname. Remember that if a transcriber
was not able to make out
all of the name, a “?” may replace some letters. The “?” will
sort to before the letters.
Given name -
Is written as on the page. Sometimes a military rank or title
is used.
Arrival -
The date the ship arrived.
Name of ship
- The ships name. “SS” was dropped if it was included in the
ships name.
Age - On the
passenger list, there are four columns for age, adult male, adult
female, child male
and child female (child under 14 years). If a number was
written in then that number is shown. Frequently only the
column was
checked, in which case an a for Adult or c for child may be
shown. Be careful in using this distinction as marks made for
other purposes may confuse the issue or obscure the original
markings. “inf” or “inft” indicates an infant. Some of
earlier
transcriptions may show an M or F for male or female in this
column. Later transcriptions show the sex in the notes
column. The sex is indicated only when the transcriber feels
it is not apparent from the persons name.
Country of Birth
- Shows the birth country as it is written on the list. If
English is shown
then that will be written as opposed to England. Sometimes
Returning Canadian will be written or a stamp “RET’D CANADIAN”
(indicating a returning Canadian) will obscure the original
information, in which case “Retd Canadian” will be shown.
Returning Canadian does not mean the person was born in
Canada. It only means the person has established a residence
in Canada and is
returning. Frequently the page will show where and how long
the person has been in Canada. See below for more information
on
country of birth.
Page number
- Is comprised of two parts. The first part (before the dash)
is the number of the
page starting with the first page that has passenger names
listed. The second portion shows the page number as shown on
that page.
Port - Shows
whether the ship arrived at Halifax or Quebec (which included Montreal).
Reel # - Is
the number of the of microfilm that has the ship on it. This
is the number that the
Library and Archives Canada uses. If the ship is the first
ship on the film you may find the film starting with passenger pages as
opposed to the front page showing the details of the ships.
In that case front page for that ship is usually found on the preceding
microfilm roll.
Notes - Is
the place to show any additional data that the transcriber felt needed
to be
included. If a persons name has been crossed out, the name
will be included with a notation made here to the effect that it has
been
crossed out. (m) or (f) indicates the person indicated had
their age checked in the male or female column. This is
included only
if the transcriber thought the name didn't indicate the sex.
Numbered Notes
01 -
indicates the person was on a ship that we had problems with, in the
transcribing of the list.
See the listing of Problem Ships below.
02 -
indicates that the person was only identified by their occupation to
the person they were
accompanying. In order to indicate who the person was travelling with
we have modified the entry by inserting the surname of person they were
accompanying. A separate listing of these persons is
here.
Duplicate
Names on the Same Ships Arrival
If someone was sent to Grosse Isle, there was an additional listing
made up when they were released from Grosse-Īle on the same form
as the passenger manifest. As these listing are with rest of the pages
from that ship, they have been indexed as well. When you find a name
that you are interested in and it is duplicated, it is possible that
the person had been admitted to Grosse-Īle. You can confirm this
by checking the
Immigrants
at Grosse-Īle website at the Canadian Genealogy Centre. If
you initially don't find the person when searching by name, try
searching by Ship and Year as their spellings may vary from ours.
Problem Ships
Kastalia arriving 28 August 1906 - On the Library and Archives Canada website this ship is listed as the Nastalia.
Kensington arriving 24 June 1906 - On microfilm the Kensingtons Grosse Isle releases follows the Ionians (23 June 1906) Grosse Isle relea
ses.
Lake Erie arriving 6 Nov
1906 - The cover page of the Sardinian arriving 8 Nov
1906 was inserted between pages 7 & 8 of the Lake Erie. The
result of this is that passengers on pages eight through 12 of the Lake
Erie are shown on the Library and Archives website as being on the
Sardinian. For confirmation of this, image #4 of the Sardinian which is
marked as page 10 names the Lake Erie immediately after the words
"Second Class Canadian". If the person you are looking for is listed as
being on pages 8 through 12 on the Lake Erie, bring up the Sardinian
arriving on 8 Nov 1906,deduct six from the first part of the page
number and that will be the image number on the Sardinian. The last
part of the page number will confirm that you have the right page.
Latona arrivng 7 Sep 1906 - On the Library and Archives Canada website this ship is listed as the Latonia.
Manchester Commerce, arriving 20 June 1906
- On microfilm the list for this ship is found after Lake Champlains
list of Grosse-Isle releases. On the Library and Archives Canada
website it is the second page of the Manchester Commerce arriving 31
Jul 1906
Montreal arriving 30 Sep 1906
- The corner of a page is turned down and obscures the few rew letters
of 8 names. As the list is in alphabectical order the names begin
with a P,Q,R or S.
Montreal arriving Quebec,
22 Jul 1910 - This ship has two pages pages that are
totally illegible. Up to sixty
passenger names may be missing.
Prinz Adalbert arriving
16 May 1909,
Konig
Adalbert
arriving May 1909,
Prinz Adalbert arriving May 1909
- These three ships are
listed one after the other on microfilm T-4760. We suspect that these
are possibly the same ship, however on a cover page the Konig Adalbert
is
written very legibly (many ships carrying large amounts of passengers
have more than one cover page), so we are listing them as they appear.
Additional
notes on Country of Birth.
The map
of the world has changed
considerably since the early 1900's. The following list (found on film
T-4759, with the Montreal arriving 28 September, 1908), is included to
show what terms were being used in 1908.
List
of
Nationalities and
their Several Races of People
|
AFRICAN,
SOUTH
AUSTRALIAN
AUSTRIA HUNGARY
AUSTRIAN, (N.E.S)
BOHEMIAN
BUCKOWINIAN
CROATIAN AND SLOVENIAN
DALMATIAN, BOSNIAN AND HERZAGOVIAN
GALICIAN
HUNGARIAN (N.E.S.)
MAGYAR
RUTHENIAN
SLOVAK
STYRIAN
BELGIAN
BULGARIAN
BRAZILIAN
CHINESE
DUTCH
FRENCH
GERMAN EMPIRE
GERMAN (N.E.S.)
ALSACE-LORRAINE
BAVARIAN
PRUSSIAN
SAXON
WURTEMBURG
GREAT BRITAIN
ENGLISH
WELSH
SCOTCH
IRISH
WEST INDIAN
BERMUDIAN
JAMAICAN
GREEK
HEBREW
HEBREW, (N.E.S)
“
RUSSIAN
“
POLISH
“
AUSTRIAN
“
GERMAN
|
ITALIAN
JAPANESE
NEWFOUNDLAND
NEW ZEALAND
PORTUGESE
POLISH
POLES,
(N.E.S.)
“
AUSTRIAN
“
GERMAN
“
RUSSIAN
PERSIAN
ROUMANIAN
ROUMANIAN, (N.E.S.)
MOLDAVIANS
WALLACHIANS
RUSSIAN
RUSSIAN (N.E.S)
FINNS
DOUKHOBORS
MENNONITES
SPANISH
SWISS
SERVIAN
SCANDINAVIAN
DANISH
ICELANDIC
SWEDISH
NORWEGIAN
TURKISH
TURKS
ARMENIAN
ASSYRIAN
EGYPTIAN
SYRIAN
ARABIAN
U.S.A. CITIZENS |
I
think I've
found who I'm looking for. How can I get copies of the original list?
It's your choice.
If you are near a centre
that has the
microfilms of the Ships Passenger Lists you can go there, look them up
and obtain the copies yourself.
Library and Archives Canada now
has the images of the passenger lists available on their
website.
It should be noted that their page
numbering is different from ours. In general, our page numbers commence
on the first page that has passenger names and their page numbers
commence with the first image. You can also obtain the microfilm from
Library and Archives Canada (see
their website for how) and make your own copies.
Or you can get a copy from
us. If
you wish to order from us, what
we will send you is a copy of the front page that contains the details
of the ship and its passage and a copy of the page that you request.
In the case of cargo ships there may be only one page for the ship. Due
to the limitations of our reader-printer and to preserve
legibility, each page will be printed on at least two 8 1/2" x 11"
sheets of
paper. We are unable to take credit cards so we cannot take orders by
e-mail. All orders must be mailed to us with a cheque or money order
for the appropriate amount. Cost is $8.00 per order. If you wish more
than one passenger page from the same ship's arrival, each additional
page is an additional $4.00.
For
orders
going to a Canadian
address the
funds are Canadian. For orders being mailed outside Canada, US funds
are required. Please print out the
order
form
so you can be sure of
including all the details we require. On the form we have requested
your e-mail address so that we can contact you in case we have a
problem with your order. The most common problem will be that we may
not be able to produce a legible print. If there are a number
of
?'s in the information you are interested in, the odds are that it is a
hard to read page. All money received from sales of copies
will
go towards the expenses of the indexing project and purchases of more
microfilms.
I
would like to help
with the project.
Now that the
images of the passenger lists are on line, we are able to accept the
help of persons living outside the Nanaimo area. All you need, is a
willingness to examine the writing on the images (some of which are
poor quality) and a spreadsheet program to input the transcription. The
spreadsheet program needs to be compatible with Excel. Quattro-Pro (ver
11 & up), OpenOffice Calc (ver 2.0 & up) and later
versions of
the Mac spreadsheet are compatible. We have had problems
with transferring data from the MS Works spreadsheet so we can't accept
that. If you don't have a spreadsheet program, Calc which is part of
OpenOffice, a free Office type program. OpenOffice can be downloaded
from
OpenOffice.org.
If
you
volunteer to help, you will be assigned a ship arriving on a certain
date, receive some instructions and a spreadsheet template. If you find
the images are too poor to transcribe, notify us and we will attempt to
enhance the images and burn them to a CD for a local transcriber to
have a go at it. The transcriptions are then proofed and then once a
microfilm reel is completed, they are then merged into out database and
PDF files produced for the website. We have elected to keep control of
which the order that the ships are being done so that once a researcher
looks at our website, if they don't find the person they want, they
know the date range that we have completed and what they still have to
look at themselves.
If you wish to volunteer, send an e-mail to
nanaimo.fhs@shaw.ca
with
Passenger List Transcribing in the Subject Line.
Friends
of Dave Howard Index
For some time a group calling themselves
the Friends of Dave Howard have been indexing ships passenger lists.
They have been
doing mainly pre 1900 arrivals at both Halifax and Quebec Ports. Part
of the
index is on the web at
http://members.shaw.ca/nfh_fodh/.
