Canada Passenger Lists and Other Immigration Records Bibliography and Suggested Reading (National Institute)


 * Barman, Jean. The West Beyond the West, A History of British Columbia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.


 * Baxter, Angus. In Search of Your Canadian Roots. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1999.


 * Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, John English. Canada 1900-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.


 * Cooper, Afua. “The Search for Mary Bibb, Black Woman Teacher in Nineteenth-Century Canada West”, Ontario History, vol. 83 (1991).


 * Filby, William P. and Mary K. Meyer. compilers, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index: A Guide to Published Arrival Records of about 500,000 Passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Washington, DC: Gale Research, 1981 and several supplements since. This is a collection on Ancestry.com called U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. This index can also be purchased as a CD-ROM collection through the Genealogy.com website.


 * Green, Ernest. “Upper Canada’s Black Defenders”, Ontario History, vol. 27 (1931).


 * Harrison, Michael and Dorothy Martin, transcribers. The Records Of The Society For The Relief Of The Sick and Destitute 1817-1847. Toronto Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 2002.


 * Johnson, Daniel, Peter M. Toner and Kenneth Kanner. Passengers to New Brunswick: The Custom House Records. New Brunswick Genealogical Society, 1987.


 * Knowles, Valerie. Strangers at Our Gates, Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy 1540-1990. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1992.


 * Lamond, Robert. A Narrative of the Rise and Progress of Emigration from the Counties of Lanark and Renfrew to the New Settlements in Upper Canada on Government Grant. Glasgow, 1821. Ottawa: Canadian Heritage Publications, 1978.


 * Lawrence, Grace. A Proud Past, a Promising Future: Ontario Black History Society. OGS Seminar Annual 1987.


 * Merriman, Brenda Dougall. Genealogy in Ontario: Searching the Records, 3rd edition. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1996.


 * Mitchell, Brian. Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. 2001.


 * Montizambert, Dr. F. "Quarantine Service" in Handbook of Canada 1897. British Association for the Advancement of Science, Toronto Meeting. Toronto: Publication Committee of the Local Executive, 1897.


 * Obee, Dave. Destination Canada: A Guide to 20th Century Immigration Records. 2nd edition, privately published, 2004.


 * O’Gallagher, Marianna. Grosse Île, Gateway to Canada 1832-1937. Ste Foy, Quebec: Livres Carraig Books 1984, 4th printing, 2001.


 * Punch, Terrence M., ed. Genealogist’s Handbook for Atlantic Canada Research. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Second Edition, 1997.


 * Punch, Terrence M. Genealogical Research in Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1998.


 * Riendeau, Roger and staff. Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture. An Enduring Heritage, Black Contributions to Early Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1984.


 * Roper, Sydney C. D., compiler. The Statistical Yearbook of Canada for 1890. Ottawa: Department of Agriculture, 1891.


 * Smith, Marian L. By Way of Canada: U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1895-1954 (St. Albans Lists). The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Fall 2000, Vol. 32, No. 3. Accessed online.


 * Stouffer, Allan P. “The Black Image in Nineteenth-Century Ontario”, Ontario History, vol. 76 (1984).


 * Stratford-Devai, Fawne. Province of Ontario Immigration Records, An Overview. Global Heritage Press, 2005.


 * Winks, Robin. The Blacks in Canada: A History. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2000.

Additional Information
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See: Canada Immigration

See: US-Canada Border Crossings

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