Census Archives

The records are published in partnership with the Generations Network (Ancestry.co.uk), and are the first of many Canadian passenger lists, the official Canadian immigration records to be published. 

The records provide lists of passengers to Quebec City including their age, county of origin, profession/occupation, and destination for each. It provides access to 967,017 references to names of passengers. The lists are dated from May 1st, 1865 to April 24th, 1900.

Records also include the name of the ships, the ports and departure dates, the arrival port and arrival date, and the nationality and destination of each passenger.

Some earlier record lists are not complete and personal information including the the details of wives and families travelling may be missing, as well as for groups of labourers, and first- and second-hand passengers. The databases are in the original language that is used in the documents, e.g. Italian, and the language was not translated into either French or English.

The Library and Archives of Canada will add more passenger lists and other databases as they become available.