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Like the United States, Canada has a number of excellent sites, including Immigration Records; Land Grants; Port of Entry Lists; Passenger Ship Arrivals and more. Emigration information of the nineteenth century and the ships they came on - are a great starting point for solid research information The immigrant records of those entering Canada are in the Canadian Archives in Ottawa and the US records of those who crossed from Canada are in the National Archives in Washington with copies at various branches around the United States. Immigration records for the years 1924-1935 are available at the Canadian Archives website
Books St. Albans St. Albans Canadian border crossing records (Canada to US), St. Albans FAQ Incentives were offered by the Canadian Government, the Railways and some of the shipping companies to bring immigrants to Canada. The traditional migration route, once the Canadian Pacific Railroad was completed, was either by ship to Halifax, St. John, Quebec, or Montreal and then by train to various towns in Canada. Other possibilities for those emigrating to Canada could have been New York to Chicago or Duluth, Minnesota, etc. They came directly from Europe to western Canada. Many went to agricultural colonies scattered across the prairies. The main incentive was the availability of land. Some had help from the JCA (Jewish Colonization Association, founded by Baron Hirsch) or other similar organizations. "The only online immigrations records for Canada are for arrivals after 1935, and that's just an index. But all is not lost. First, you should determine - or guess - at which US border city he came into America. Records for those crossings do exist, are microfilmed, and available from the Mormon Library, nearby US National Archives, etc. There are the St. Albans Lists, the most well known of the records. These encompass the many small border towns in New England. There are also two or three sets for New York State border crossings, and records for those who entered via Detroit. These records may indicate when your grandfather actually arrived in Canada - or they may not. The more you can narrow down the date he arrived, the easier the next step will be." For more information on interlibrary loan: "Another note: The library has gotten *much* more efficient about shipping microfilms lately. While the backlog used to be 4-6 months, now they ship films within a few days. However, the loan time period is much shorter than it used to be. So order fewer films more frequently." Canadian Addresses ... there are some very valuable sites, believe me. I have used these sites in my continuous researching of my wife's family --- SMOLKIN --- from Ossipovich, Belarus who emigrated to Montreal in the late 1800s. Should you, in your research come across this surname, I would appreciate, as a favor to my wife, if you would let me know if you find any information about the Smolkin name. It will be most appreciated. Jwebindex@gmail.com I sincerely hope you too will find a great amount of interesting information from this site. About 25% of Canadians have at least one family tie to the U.S., if you go back 2 to 3 generations. So, if you are in need of Canadian documents, Eve Greenfield suggests the following: "I got the info from the State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual, which lists addresses to write for biographic docs all over the world. For Manitoba, the appropriate agency is: Vital Statistics Agency, 254-258 Portage Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3C OB6 Ask them to send you a request form for the genealogical birth certificate; Canada issues three types of birth certificates, but the genealogical one is actual microfilm copy of the form that was filled out when the birth was recorded. The fee is $25 Canadian (US $18), which you will need to send them probably in the form of a postal money order. One catch: you will need the written permission of the individuals in question to have documents released to you, if they are living, or permission of their next of kin, if they are deceased.
"A Checklist of Registers of Protestant & Jewish Congregations in Quebec" - authored by Neil Broadhurst Jewish Genealogy etc. "A Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada" - authored by Irving Abella and published in Toronto by Lester & Orpen Dennys in 1990. Jewish Genealogy etc. "Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry" - authored by Lawrence Tapper "The Books of Remembrance" - contains the names of Canadians who fought in wars and died either during or after them. These books are now available on-line at "Jewish Experiences in Early Manitoba" - authored by Arthur A. Chiel and published by Manitoba Jewish Publications in 1955 Jewish Genealogy etc. "Jews in Manitoba: A Social History" - authored by Arthur A. Chiel and published in Toronto by the University of Toronto Press in 1961 "Journey into our Heritage: The Story of the Jewish People in the Canadian West" Probably no longer in print. authored by Henry Gutkin and published in Toronto by Lester & Orpen Dennys in 1980. Jewish Genealogy etc. "Land of Promise" The Jewish Historical Society of Alberta has a photo history book of the Jews who settled in Calgary and surrounding area. "Sources in the United States and Canada" (The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, Vol 1) - authored by Miriam Weiner Buy from Amazon.com "Through Narrow Gates: A Review of Jewish Immigration Colonization and Immigrant Aid Work in Canada (1840-1940)" - authored by Simon Belkin and published in Montreal by Canadian Jewish Congress and Jewish Colonization Association in 1966 Jewish Genealogy etc.
Canadian Censuses 1881
Census records are online and on CDs at the LDS centers.
1901 Census for Canada - has much valuable genealogical information, such as names and birth dates for all family members, birthplaces and sometimes a year of immigration and occupation. The National Archives is located in Ottawa. Canadian census of 1901. The entries given are in easily readable form, and there is a place for one to enter corrections. The original census records are also visible. Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana - an excellent source for Canadian and Ellis Island Passenger lists as well as other material. Arrival in Canadian Ports - circa 1912 - country of birth and race entries - ship manifests information. The Pursers were instructed to fill in the information required in columns 17 (Country of Birth) and 19 (Race of People). Immigration officials were responsible for columns 3 (Amount of Cash $) and 20 (Destination Post Office) Different color forms were to be used for each of three classes: steerage - white, interims - yellow and saloon - blue. The countries were mostly European and reflected the great fragmentation of the Balkan States at the time (Serbia, Croatia and Dalmatia) There were some anomalies in that names were listed for some geographical entities that were not a state e.g. Galicia. There were five categories of the Hebrew race: Hebrew NES (Not Otherwise Specified), Hebrew Austrian, Hebrew German, Hebrew Polis and Hebrew Russian. In the column under religious Denomination, Hebrew would be shown for persons of the Hebrew race. Some Pursers preferred to us the term Jew instead of Hebrew in spite of the fact that the term Jew was not included in the listing of races. Ukrainian is not listed, the official term listed is "Ruthenian" (Russniak). The immigrants were required to have at least $25 in cash when they landed. That would equate to two or three hundred of today's dollars. Many Canadians and some U.S. citizens arrived in the 'new country' at Pier 21 on the Halifax waterfront. Actually 1.5 million immigrants first set foot on Canadian soil at this pier. During WW II, 3,000 British evacuee children, 50,000 war brides and their 22,000 children, over 100,000 refugees and 368,000 Canadian troops bound for Europe passed through Pier 21. Check out this site Manifests indexed for all ports for the period 1925-1935 are available free at http://www.archives.ca/02/02011802_e.html US Ports of Entry - many immigration stations were set up along the Canadian borders as well as other seaports on the east, west and Texas coast. Passenger manifest information for these ports have been archived and are available on microfilm at the National Archives as well as the Family History Centers. Bension Collection of Sephardic Manuscripts - an excellent summary descriptions of the manuscripts are at the Alberta University Library Canada Postal Lookup Canadian Archives The Canadian Archives website provides detailed information on how to access immigration records, border crossings and passenger lists. They offer some level of researcher services. There is also an on-line database covering the years 1925-1935 -- searchable by surname, given name, ship, port of arrival, year of arrival. It can take a bit of time and sometimes, National Archives of Canada - offers a highly useful booklet that is downloadable at The Canadian government did not keep records of people leaving the country; however, in 1895, the United States established border ports along the International Boundary and began recording arrivals from Canada. These lists are in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. 20408 To request information from the Province where the Naturalization was obtained, obtain a Freedom of Information form, from government sources or on-line and send the form with the fee of $5.00 and the request to the Citizenship and Immigration Department in Ottawa. Proof of death of the individual is required or permission from that person for the release of the information, if the person you are researching is alive. Records of immigrants arriving at Canadian land and sea ports from January 1, 1936 onwards, remain in the custody of Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Requests for copies of landing records should be mailed to their office as noted in their web site at The National Archives of Canada website provides detailed information on how to access immigration records, border crossings and passenger lists. The also offer some research services. Also, you will find an on-line database covering the years 1925 to 1935 - searchable by surname, given name, ship, port of arrival and year of arrival. However, the site also says that in order to obtain a Naturalization Records, one must either live in Canada; be a Canadian Citizen; or apply from Canada. There is a form to be filled out which is only available in Canada, plus a fee.
This Canadian Genealogical source has links to: Census records; Birth, marriage, death, divorce and adoption records, land records, Métis records, wills and estate records, Military records, Immigration records, Home children, Citizenship (naturalization) records, Loyalist sources, LI-RA-MA (Russian Consular records), Employment records, school records and newspapers. Application for copies of the Naturalization records must be submitted on an Access to Information request Form (this form can be picked up at a Public Library or a Government Office). A check for $5.00 payable to Receiver General For Canada must be enclosed. Proof of death, copy of certificate, obit, photo of gravesite must be included. Include all known information: Full name, date and place of birth, certificate #, if known. If applying for a search for your own citizenship records, the cost is $75.00. If you only require a photo copy - file a Personal Information Request Form - there is no fee for this service. Ship Manifests - Application for copies of the Naturalization records must be submitted on an Access to Information Request Form (can be picked up at a Public Library or a Government office). A check for $5.00 payable to Receiver General For Canada must be enclosed. Proof of death, copy of certificate, obit, photo of gravesite must be included. Include all known information including: Full name, date and place of birth, certificate # if known. If applying for a search for your own citizenship records, the cost is $75.00. If you only require a photo copy - file a Personal Information Request Form - there is no fee for this service Canadian Arrival Manifests have been available for many years on microfilm for the ports of Quebec and Halifax/Saint John, NB from 1867 to 1919 at the Canadian National Archives. Later manifests were held by the Immigration Department and the information could only be obtained using the access to Information Act procedures, which were not simple. Manifests (or microfilms) from 1919 to 1935 have been transferred to Archives and are Canadian Genealogy Center Database Canadian Genealogy Resources Canadian Immigration - there is quite a bit of information and essays and links that I need to explore at some future date, but you can start the process now At this site you will find links to: Assimilation / Destination: Canada / Hamburg & Bremen / Immigrants and Epidemics / Life In Canada / Reasons For Immigration To America and more links including: Immigrants to Canada in Nineteenth Century; Immigration History Research Center; Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals on Microfilm NARA; Immigration at the turn of the 20th Century; Immigrants and Tenement Life; Locating Ship Passenger Lists; Passenger Lists on the Internet and more! Canadian Jewish News - a weekly newspaper published in Toronto is probably the most widely read Canadian Jewish newspaper, however there are about 20 Jewish periodicals and newspapers published in Canada today. The Canadian Jewish Times of 1909 to 1914 is on-line although you have to pay a nominal fee for searching the files located at Canada/Canadian Resources - here is a fantastic site that offers information and links. Canadian Genealogy Pages; National Resources; Alberta Sites; British Columbia Sites; Manitoba Sites; New Brunswick Sites; Newfoundland and Labrador Sites; Northwest Territories Sites; Nova Scotia Sites; Ontario Sites; Prince Edward Island Sites; Quebec Sites; Saskatchewan Sites; Yukon Territory and Acadian Sites. Canadian Resources - here is a good site to find people as well as business names and addresses Canadian Pacific Archives: This is an internal department of Canadian Pacific Railway, and provides fee-based services to the public. To use their services, you must send a detailed request in writing specifying the intended end use. Mail to: Canadian Pacific Archives PO Box 6042 Station Centre-ville Montreal, QC CANADA H3C 3E4 Fax: 514 395 5132 Telephone: 514 395 5135 There are no employee records held by this Archive Canadian Statistics - Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Free, searchable Canadian Database Genealogical Resources - Heraldry - Jewish Historical Societies addresses in the US, Canada and Australia Immigrants in Canada and ethnic identity dynamics - Immigrants to Canada - Lots of information about ships arriving in Canada during the 19th century along with info for other countries. Immigrants to Canada in Nineteenth Century - Ships - Emigration Immigration Records - Inter-Library Loans - from Canada to US. Your local public library branch can request a reel from the National Archives in Ottawa for a nominal fee. Jewish Funeral Directors (Canada) - you can search for Funeral Directors by state or city at Jewish Genealogy Links - Louis Kessler offers a lot of links to many genealogy sites including Jewish Genealogy and Computer Program Comparisons of features at Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada - you will find links to Museum, Holocaust, Genealogy, History and an Archives of the site. E-mail the center at heritage@jhcwc.mb.ca Webmaster is Ike Kessler lkessler@lkessler.com Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada Judaism in the Yukon - an interesting article. Select the year 1998 for 'back articles' and then Wednesday, August 26, 1998 issue. The story is well worth reading. There is also a Jewish Historical Society of the Yukon and there is research of at least one Jewish cemetery.
McGill University Medical Research Institute Membership List - useful if searching for Canadian Medical Students and faculty Military Records - Click on Genealogy, then Military Records Canadian
War Graves Commission Maple Leaf
Project - online data base containing photographs of every Canadian
soldier grave - world-wide. Passenger Lists 1865 - 1935 - Passenger Lists - The inGeneas Database contains passenger list records for immigrants arriving at Canadian ports between 1748 and 1873. For the most part, these records have been extracted from microfilm of the original manifests held at several archives and libraries. The inGeneas Database contains records from a variety of immigration records (other than Sending Packages to Ukraine - Meest, which is also located in New Jersey, has offices at Meest Alberta Ltd. 10384 97 St. Edmonton, AB T5H 2M3, Canada Phone: 403 424 1777 or Fax: 403 421 7134 Customs Regulations for Goods Shipped to Ukraine: according to the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the following items can be imported to Ukraine tax-free: food products; pharmaceuticals (certified in Ukraine); clothing; shoes; bed linens: and articles of personal hygiene. If it is obvious that the number of items sent to one recipient is unreasonable and exceeds the quantity necessary for an individual user, these shipments will have to be cleared through the customs as a commercial cargo. Goods subject to customs duties: TV sets, Video Players and VCRs, computers, radio telephones, etc; household appliances,; genuine leather and fur (new); luxury items; cosmetics; compact discs, tapes.
Ships They Came On - 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. A listing of ships coming to Canada that list the date, year, name of the ship, Destination and sex of young immigrants are available in a searchable database St Albans List - St. Alban's is a town in Vermont, but this list nonetheless includes all entries into the US from Canada via Atlantic and Pacific ports and everything in between. A large number of immigrants came to the United States via Canada during the mid- and late nineteenth century, and for them there is no U.S. immigration record. They landed in Canada where no U.S. officer met them or recorded information about their arrival in the United States. The always-growing number of immigrants who chose this route in the late 1800s finally convinced the United States, in 1894, to build and operate the bureaucratic machinery necessary to document the many thousands who each year entered at points along its northern border. For information on Canadian Border Crossing Records see the St. Albans FAQ... Volunteer Look Up Site: Helplist Canada - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/ Alberta Archive - Provincial Archives in Alberta - Phone: 403 427 1750 Jewish Genealogical Society (S. Alberta) Contact Florence Elman, President at haflo@shaw.ca The web site address is Alberta Gen Web Site offers a Local History Book Project that has 47 local history book indexes online, encompassing over 25,000 names. Alberta Gen Web Site also offers a look up service: http://users.rootsweb.com/~canab/lookups.html#Alberta Alberta telephone directory
Information is available at Canadian 411 (does not include Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan) 411 info: Jewish Community Centre - 1607 90th Avenue SW, Calgary Sibbald - located in south eastern Alberta, there was a Agricultural colony known as the Montefiore Colony British Columbia Vancouver - located in the western province of British Columbia, Vancouver has a Jewish community today of about 25,000. The first Jewish settler was "Leaping" Louis Gold, arriving from Poland in 1872. He ran a general store in Gastown, and received his leaping name because he was a small man who could leap high when the situation required it. At the end of the 19th century, Jewish immigrants arrived from England, the U.S. and Central Europe. In 1916, the first synagogue was built and called the Orthodox Sons of Israel. David Oppenheimer, a wealthy Jew, established Stanley Park. One of the most popular Jewish personality stories is the one about David Marks, a Vancouver tailor and synagogue president, who invited a visiting performer playing the local vaudeville theater to a family Passover Seder. Marks' daughter Sadie fell in love and married the performer, Benjamin Kubelsky of Chicago. The couple is better known by their stage names: Jack Benny and Mary Livingston. There are two Conservative synagogues (Beth Israel and Har El) one Reform (Temple Sholom) two Orthodox (Schara Tzedeck and Louis Brier) one Sephardic Orthodox (Beth Ha'Midrash) one Hasidic (Chabad-Lubavitch) two Traditional (Shaarey Tefilah and Burquest) and one Renewal (Or Shalom). The city also boasts a Jewish School and an excellent Jewish community center with a huge library, a fine art collection, a pool, gym and a kosher snack bar. The center holds an annual Jewish Film Festival. The Cloverdale Library, Genealogy Dept., has, on microfilm, passenger lists of ships arriving in Canadian ports from late 1890s into the 1920s. You need to know the approximate year of arrival, then you can search the film ship by ship and name by name until you find the required information. If you live outside the Cloverdale area, the charge is $2.00 for use of the viewing equipment. Photocopies directly from the microfilm is 10 cents a copy. For information about the Jewish Community, get a copy of the free bi-annual magazine Jewish Life. E-mail address is info@shalombc.org British Columbia Archives - Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes for the B.C. Archives British Columbia Death Index - The British Columbia Archives' Vital Events Indexes page, which contains summary information on historical births, deaths and marriages that were submitted to District Registrars and registered by the Director of Vital Statistics. http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/ Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver - Phone 604 257 5100 Calgary Calgary Jewish Genealogy Society - meets at Calgary Jewish Community Centre, 1607 90th Avenue, Calgary. E-mail Florence Elman, President haflo@cadvision.com Calgary has a Jewish School. University of Calgary Manitoba Community History Books - these are books owned by Infoukes list members who are willing to do lookup for family names
Jewishfoundation.org - this site
offers stories of Jewish families and why they had settled in Winnipeg.
Check the section entitled "Book of Life". Manitoba GenWeb Query Site. Post your question here - there is no subscription required. No mail unless someone has information for you (or perhaps thinks there is a family connection) Subscribe to the RootsWeb Can-Manitoba Mailing List. Instructions at http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmb/canmanitoba.htm I. L. Peretz Folk Shul in Winnipeg is planning a major reunion for the summer of 2003. Contact Maxine Zabenskie, 423 Inkster Blvd., Winnipeg R2W 0K6 or Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada C116 - 123 Doncaster St. Winnipeg, Manitoba R3N 2B2, Canada; Phone: 204 477 7460; Fax: 204 477 7465 Historical Societies addresses in the US, Canada and Australia Manitoba Genealogical Society has available for purchase a list of over 1,400 cemeteries in the province at: Manitoba General Links: is quite a good site for general information including Archives Web Sites; Immigration Records; Military and Organizations and various Societies. Manitoba - Jewish Genealogical Exploration Guide Maritime Provinces Jews have lived in Canada's Atlantic or Maritime Provinces -- Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland - since before the American Revolution. Many as retailers and peddlers. There are about 3,000 Jews living n the Maritimes, where they work in the professions, business and the arts. The largest number live in Halifax which has a Jewish population of 1,700. An excellent article by Elin Schoen Brockman appeared in Hadassah Magazine - October, 2004 issue. Also good reading is "Cape Breton Lives" - a collection from Ronald Caplan's Cape Breton's Magazine. Pier 21 in Halifax became a major port of entry for Jewish refugees after WW II. Atlantic Jewish Council
Glace Bay - Sons of Israel Wooden Synagogue is on Prince Street - Phone 902 849 8605. There are a few Jews still living here.
Halifax Beth Israel Synagogue (The Baron de Hirsch Congregation) - on Oxford Street Shaar Shalom - a conservative synagogue - on Oxford Street St John - Congregation Sharrei Zedek New Brunswick - has the only Jewish Museum in the Maritimes and is located at 20 Wellington Row in St. John; Phone: 506 633 1833 Sydney - Temple Sons of Israel located at 88 Mount Pleasant Street; Phone: 902 564 9819 in the Whitney Pier section, is a conservative synagogue dating back to 1913 and is now the home of the Whitney Pier Historical Museum Yarmouth, the synagogue building was originally a church. The blue-painted building with a Star of David in its tower, still exists on William Street. Montreal Montreal has a Jewish population of about 100,000 of which most are Ashkenazi, but there is a large group of French-speaking Sephardic Moroccan Jews now living in the city. Between Montreal and Toronto, there are 12 Jewish schools and several Yeshivas. About 60 percent of the Jewish children in Montreal attend Jewish primary schools and 30 percent are in Jewish high schools. The McGill University in Montreal offers programs in Jewish studies and a course in learning Yiddish. Baron De Hirsch Cemetery - located on Savane Street - there are 20,000 records and images, about a quarter of the entire cemetery on-line - a commercial site offers an on-line database Beth Tikva Synagogue has a membership of over 800 families and celebrated its 36th anniversary in 2001. Rabbi Mordecai Zeitz, a former New Yorker, is the Rabbi. Cummings House is the site of the Jewish Public Library and the Holocaust Memorial Center The Gazette - electronic edition JGS of Montreal - The Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal serves a city with one of the oldest Jewish communities in North America. The first Jewish settlers arrived in 1760 and the first synagogue (in Canada), the Shearith Israel, was founded in 1768. Today, Montreal has a thriving Jewish community of over 100,000. It is in honour of these forebears and those who came after that we introduce our society and research in Montreal and Quebec to the Jewish genealogical community around the world. Paperman's Funeral Home - Jewish funeral home in Montreal Portuguese Congregation - where on the High Holidays you can hear the sounds of five separate services in five different languages. Saidye Bronfman Community Center has an active Yiddish theater. Shaarei Israel was the first synagogue in Montreal built in 1768. Ontario Cemetery Locations in Ontario Ordering a Death Certificate in Ontario Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid - a database of over two million Ontario cemetery listings. Ottawa Jewish Genealogy Society of Ottawa (Ontario) Ottawa Jewish Historical Society Archives Historical Societies addresses in the US, Canada and Australia "A checklist of registers of Protestant & Jewish congregations in Quebec" - author Neil Broadhurst Ottawa has a Jewish school Quebec Quebec City - Beth Israel Olev Sholom Synagogue Tel: 418 688-3277 is the only synagogue in the city of about 100 Jewish souls. The Rabbi is Aaron Sultan. Joseph Gabay is president of the Canadian Jewish Congress' Quebec region. There is also a Jewish cemetery. Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Archives Board, Saskatchewan Genealogical Society - provide assistance to anyone researching their heritage in Saskatchewan and promotes, encourages and foster the study of genealogical and original research in the Province of Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Jewish Communities -Genealogical Institute of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada. Ms. Irma Penn is the archivist heritage@jhcwc.org Saskatchewan Mailing List - sponsored by RootsWeb http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-SASKATCHEWAN.html Toronto Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto) About 30,000 Israelis live in Canada with most of them living in Toronto. Agudas Achum Cemetery - Neil Perry is the current President. Lilian Schorr placed a photo of a tombstone of a great aunt on JewishGen and mentioned that the cemetery is in disrepair with many fallen headstones. For further information about her visit to this cemetery, contact Lilian lilianschorr@elsitio.net Archives The Ontario Archives will loan these microfilms to libraries via interlibrary loan. Further information can be found at http://www.gov.on.ca/mczcr/archives/english/ Birth records on microfilm 1869-1902 It is difficult to get more recent records from Canada; their privacy laws are generally more restrictive than those of the US. The Archives of Ontario has the records for marriages within the past 80 years. Earlier records are at the Canada National Archives, and my be available through the Mormon Library. The Archives of Ontario conscientiously transfers records each year, to not keep records older than 80 years. To get a marriage certificate from the Archives of Ontario, you must be: for bride or groom parent or child of the bride or groom closest next-of-kin, executor, estate trustee, of the bride or groom, and one of them is deceased. A copy of the marriage certificate is $15.00 Canadian. To get the long form of the application, you must be the bride or groom, closest next-of-kin, executor, or estate trustee, of the bride or groom and one of them is deceased. A copy of the long form is $22.00 Canadian. For general information about obtaining these more recent birth, marriage and death records, Jewish Toronto "Jews in Toronto" - a book by Gerald Tulchinsky. Roselawn Cemetery - Jewish cemetery in Toronto Winnipeg "From Kamenets-Podolski to Winnipeg: The History of the Lechtziers, a Pioneering Canadian Family" - authored by Dr. Reuven Lexier, ISBN 0-9682293-0-1 Lexier Editions 474 College St. #406, Toronto, ON M6G 1A4 The Jewish Community of Winnipeg is approximately 15,000 and growing as a result of Argentinean Jewish migration. Stories of Jewish families and why they had come to Winnipeg Winnipeg GenWeb Winnipeg Jewish Community Web Site offers links to other sites with related information: Winnipeg Jewish Information - Winnipeg has a Jewish School Winnipeg Mailing List General Naming Customs in Poland and Ukraine are also used by Canadian Ukrainians. National Archives of Canada - Canadian Genealogy Resources Orphanage Information - a database of young immigrants to Canada in the period of 1869 to the early 1930s. Ship Passenger List Information: can be obtained from special lists containing information including: name, age, country of , occupation and intended destination of each passenger and are the official record of immigration, during certain periods of time. In Canada, these records can be accessed under arrangements made by the National Archives of Canada. Pier 21 - Many Canadians and some U.S. citizens arrived in the 'new country' at Pier 21 on the Halifax waterfront. Actually 1.5 million immigrants first set foot on Canadian soil at this pier. During WW II, 3,000 British evacuee children, 50,000 war brides and their 22,000 children, over 100,000 refugees and 368,000 Canadian troops bound for Europe passed through Pier 21. At this same site, you will find 'Stories of Pier 21' and an 'Index of Ships' that have arrived and/or departed from pier 21. The list is not complete, but it is being constantly updated. Pier 21 - Halifax, Canada - Canada's Historic soul - Purser: The Purser was a ship's officer. He filled in certain columns of the Ship's Manifest, based on the documents that the passenger carried. Canadian Port Example: This information was completed by the Immigration Agent at the Port of Landing. Resource List for Community and Family Histories of Ukrainians in Canada Russian/Jewish Consular Records from 1808 to 1922 for Russians and East Europeans. Telephone Directories on the Web - White Pages
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