New Brunswick Emigration and Immigration

Online Resources

 * Online Listing of 1500 of the first families to arrive in New Brunswick.
 * Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Vessel Index
 * Passenger Lists, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
 * The Old United Empire Loyalists List, index
 * A List of passengers landing in ships in the Maritime provinces
 * 1772-1775 - Yorkshire Immigrants to New Brunswick, 1772-1775, index
 * 1785 - Return of Loyalists settled in various parts of New Brunswick in the year 1785 : apparently compiled in connection with an investigation into the accounts paid out by the government in behalf of the Loyalists This manuscript is from the collection known as the Winslow Papers. Part of this collection was published under the title, the Winslow Papers, edited by W. O. Raymond, but this manuscript was not included. Includes index.
 * 1816-1838 - Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Port Returns - Including Passenger Lists, 1816-1838
 * 1834 - New Brunswick, Canada, Passenger Lists: 1834 ($)
 * 1841-1849 - Irish Emigration to New England through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849 ($)
 * 1851, 1861 - New Brunswick, Canada, Irish Immigrants In The New Brunswick Census Of 1851 and 1861 Index, 1851, 1861, index, ($)
 * 1865-1922 - Passenger Lists, 1865-1922 Index and images. Library and Archives Canada
 * 1865-1922 - Passenger Lists for the Port of Quebec City and Other Ports, 1865-1922, index and images. Library and Archives Canada
 * 1881-1922 -, index and images.
 * 1895-1956 - United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index.
 * 1895-1954 - Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954, index and images.
 * 1895-1924 - Vermont, Passenger Lists, 1895-1924
 * 1900-1922, 1925-1935 - Ships' passenger lists for Canada, 1900-1922, 1925-1935
 * 1908-1918 - Border Entry, 1908-1918, images.
 * 1917-1942 - United States, border crossing from Canada to United States, New Brunswick, Records of Aliens Pre-Examined at Saint John, New Brunswick, Prior to Admission at the U.S.-Canada Border, 1917-1942, index and images.
 * 1919-1924 - Border Entry, Form 30, 1919-1924, images
 * 1919-1924 - Immigration Form 30A, ocean arrivals, 1919-1924, index and images.
 * 1925-1935 - Passenger Lists and Border Entries, 1925-1935 - Nominal Indexes, Library and Archives Canada
 * 1925-1935 - Border Entry, 1925-1935, images

Canadian Border Crossing Records
The United States kept records of people crossing the border from Canada to the United States. These records are called border crossing lists, passenger lists, or manifests. There are two kinds of manifests:


 * Manifests of people sailing from Canada to the United States.
 * Manifests of people traveling by train from Canada to the United States.

In 1895, Canadian shipping companies agreed to make manifests of passengers traveling to the United States. The Canadian government allowed U.S. immigration officials to inspect those passengers while they were still in Canada. The U.S. immigration officials also inspected train passengers traveling from Canada to the United States. The U.S. officials worked at Canadian seaports and major cities like Québec and Winnipeg. The manifests from every seaport and emigration station in Canada were sent to St. Albans, Vermont.

Provincial Secretary Administration Records
"For those hoping to use this series to find a particular ancestor, they are likely to be disappointed for these records do not contain many lists of immigrants (although there are a few, which are noted). If, however, the researcher is interested in documenting the experiences and plight of their ancestors who were involved in the several waves of immigration, this series is will prove valuable.  From violations of the Passenger Act to disease and death in the Immigrant Station at Partridge Island, this series is noteworthy for the amount of detail it contains regarding the conditions of the immigrants, especially those from Ireland, on their arrival in New Brunswick.  As well, there is a fairly detailed record of the passenger ships which arrived in the peak years of 1814 to 1867.
 * Report on Nicholson, Breen, Collins, Macan, and McGuire Families, Irish Immigrants in York and Carleton Counties, c. 1847, images
 * Report on Immigration Settlements in New Brunswick; 1863 (provides name, county of settlement, the number of acres, the year of survey, rough estimate of number of settlers as of 1863), images.

Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
The major port for the maritime provinces has always been Halifax, Nova Scotia. As with the rest of eastern Canada, New Brunswick has a few scattered ship lists for the period before 1865. The few ship lists from the Acadian period can be found at the Acadian Center, Moncton University. There are a few British ship lists from about 1815 to 1860 on microfilm reels F-1697 and F-1698 at the National Archives of Canada.

The Provincial Archives has recently indexed a series of passenger lists. The sub-series RS23E consists of the passenger lists. These lists are for the following ports and years:


 * St. John—1816, 1833, 1834, 1838
 * St. Andrews—1837, 1838
 * Bathurst—1837