Websites

Home Children, 1869-1930
Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa are locating and indexing the names of these Home Children found in passenger lists in the custody of the National Archives of Canada.

 Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
The Compass is a guide to assist you in your search for immigrant related information. Our aim is to provide you with the best and most up-to-date information available with special emphasis on passenger lists, ships, ship images and descriptions. There are descriptions of each site, and some, due to the extensive amount of information, are listed under more than one topic.

InGeneas - National Archives of Canada Miscellaneous Immigration Index
A free searchable index of passenger lists in the National Archives of Canada, 1800-1849. The database contains approximately 15,000 names. A list of sources is also provided, which gives a brief description of the information that can be found in each record. InGeneas also has another searchable index of other passenger lists and genealogical records which can be ordered for a fee.

The National Archives of Canada - Immigration Records
This is a helpful link to all information regarding Passenger Lists in Canada, including a searchable database for Passenger Lists 1925-1935.

The ShipsList
TheShipsList website, online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists.We also have immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.