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appendix: Immigration to and Emigration from Nova Scotia
1815-1838 prepared by J.S. Martell, 1942
Ships to and from Nova Scotia 1815-1838
The information included here is chiefly drawn from Customs
Returns, Government correspondence and contemporary newspapers. The Martell
appendix is the preliminary source of this information, however additional
material
will
be included,
from a variety of sources. There are no passenger names, with the exception
of a list of Scottish settlers to Pictou in 1816, [see
below] a muster roll of Welsh passengers in 1818 [see
below], and
the survivors of the wrecked Dispatch in 1828 [see
below] and Saint Lawrence, Tobermory to Ship Harbour
1828 [see below]. Where a source is quoted as PANS, that
citation
may now be outdated, as the
Public Archives of Nova
Scotia
(PANS) is now referred to as
NSARM (Nova
Scotia Archives and Records Management).
note about omissions: a -
Some arrivals in the "shipping news" section of the newspapers
included names of passengers, thought to be Cabin
class,
and
not immigrants, so are not included. b - Passengers
on ships bound to ports other than Nova Scotian, are not included in
totals. c - Shipwrecked passengers are
not included it totals, unless there was reason to believe they stayed
in the Province. — In the contemporary documents for this period,
the term Emigrant is often used in place of Immigrant,
so consider 'Emigrant' as an inclusive categorization for Immigrant. — The
nationality of the passengers is arbitrarily indicated by country of
departure of the ship, rather than the origin of the passengers.
note: The formal archiving of passenger
lists for Canadian arrivals did not begin, for the ports of . .
. Quebec 1865 . . . Halifax 1881 . . . St. John 1900 etc. . . . see Canadian
Records and also check Passenger
Lists for additional early passenger lists, or, lists of passengers
found from a variety of sources.
1815 | 1816 | 1817 | 1818 | 1819 | 1820 | 1821 | 1822 | 1823 | 1824 | 1825 | 1826 | 1827 | 1828
1829 | 1830 | 1831 | 1832 |
1833 | 1834 | 1835 | 1836 | 1837 | 1838
Abbreviations:
C.O. = Colonial Office
Idem = from the same author or publication or source
op. cit. = opere citato in the work cited
PANS =
Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Pass: = Passengers
viz = videlicet namely
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| Halifax |
| Negroes: |
Public Record Office, London, C.O. 217/96, Sherbrooke
to Bathurst, April 6, 1815.
About 1,200 Negroes had been brought to Nova Scotia during the War
of 1812 in the King's Ships. [see, for instance, Acadian Recorder,
Sept. 3, 1814: "Thursday, Sept. 1—arr. H.M. Brig Jaseur,
Capt. Watt, 10 days from the Chesapeake; also, a Transport with a
few hundred Negroes (dead and alive)"]
Vice-Admiral Cochrane had written from Bermuda (March 25) to say
that he was sending to Nova Scotia, 1,500 to 2,000 more Negroes.
Idem, Sherbrooke to Bathurst, May 6, 1815 — New
Brunswick had agreed to take 500 of the Negroes.
Acadian Recorder, (Halifax), April 1, 1815 — H.M.S. Erebus,
12 days Amelia Island, "62 refugee Blacks,
from the island."
Idem, April 29, 1815 — H.M.S. Brune,
7 days, Bermuda, "200 blacks"
Idem, May 13, 1815 — H.M.S. Ceylon,
6 days, Bermuda. "The Ceylon brought 250
blacks; and a ship was to sail in a few days for Annapolis with
a number more."
(His Majesty's warships and transports continued during the summer
and autumn of 1815 to arrive from the south, but the number of
Negroes they carried was not recorded in the shipping news.) C.O. 217/96, Sherbrooke
to Bathurst, October 16, 1815
Winter clothing and blankets for the Negroes had come from Bermuda
where they had been sent from England. More Negroes were in the
provision ship and a frigate.
In fact, almost "every Ship from the Southward" had been bringing some Negroes,
and "great numbers in addition" were expected. (The Acadian
Recorder,
of Aug. 24, 1816, noted the arrival of the Brig Ceres from
Charleston, S.C., and Cape Fear "with about 40 Negroes, captured
by the British during the war.")
C.O. 217/98, Dalhousie to Bathurst, December 29, 1816; PANS Council
Minutes, Nov. 29, 1816
New regulations for rationing refugee Negroes were established
by Lieutenant-Governor Dalhousie late in 1816. Only the Negroes who had been
sent by Admiral Cochrane since April 1815, were to be considered
refugees. Three principal depots for rations (which were to cease
June 1, 1817) were established at Halifax, Nine Mile River, Preston.
Negroes at Hammond's Plains, Preston, Refugee Hill (St. Margaret's
Bay Road), Waterloo Farm (Colchester Road), and on lands of individual
proprietors were to continue to receive rations if they had been
receiving them up to this date. But there were to be no rations for
Negroes idling on the streets of Halifax unless there were too infirm
to settle. A full weekly ration was to consist of 7 pounds of biscuit,
4 10/16 pounds of pork, 2 pounds of rice. and each child a third
ration. Richard Inglis, Clerk of the Commissariat Department, was
to superintend the issue of rations.
Return of Negroes made by Richard Inglis, Dec. 30, 1816
| Where Settled |
Men |
Women |
Child'n |
Total |
| Preston |
319 |
257 |
348 |
924 |
| Hammond's Plains |
201 |
131 |
172 |
504 |
| Refugee Hill |
20 |
23 |
33 |
76 |
| Town of Halifax |
50 |
28 |
37 |
115 |
| |
590 |
439 |
590 |
1,619 |
(It seems safe to say that at least 1,700 to 2,000 refugee negroes
came to Nova Scotia after the war, and stayed in the province.) |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1815 — 236 Scots |
| Irish: |
Idem — 94 Irish |
| Pictou |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 227, Doc. 118 — The following is a
list of "the Emigrants from Gt. Britain" (Scotland) in
1815 settled or residing in the District of Pictou in the spring
of 1816. [click
here for list of settlers]
see also brigantine
Prince William, Sutherland to Pictou, 1815. |
| Cape Breton |
| |
D.C. Harvey, "Holland's Description of Cape Breton
Island and Other Documents," Public Archives of Nova Scotia,
Publication No.2, Appendix B, Census Rolls Cape Breton Island 1818.
These rolls are incomplete (there is no return for Sydney, for instance),
but in the absence of shipping lists, they indicate, in the column
headed "Time on the Island," when some settlers arrived. A count
reveals 28 Scots, 25 Irish, and 6 English who came in 1816. |
|
| Halifax |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1816 — 201 Scots |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
June 1 |
brig William |
43 days, Aberdeen |
4 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 21 |
brig Aimwell |
35 days, Thurso |
139 passengers, mostly farmers and mechanics |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 26 |
ship Lord Gardner |
59 days, Greenock |
passengers |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
Nov. 2 |
Hibernia |
Cork |
105 farmers and mechanics with their families |
| |
C.O. 217/98, Dalhousie to Bathurst, Jan. 2, 1817
"About 500 fine young men chiefly Irish" had lately arrived at Halifax
"totally destitute of bread or means of subsistence." They were
an overflow of "an immense Emigration to Newfoundland last summer." |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
Dec. 14 |
schooner Industry and Susan |
St. John's, Nfld. |
150 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Dec. 21 |
schooner William & Jane |
St. John's, Nfld. |
51 passengers |
| |
|
|
schooners Haron, Susan, and Union had cleared St. John's
for Halifax with "Passengers" [Dec. 28 1816 issue missing] |
| Pictou |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 227, Doc. 116, Hugh Denoon & Others
to H.H. Cogswell (Deputy Provincial Secretary), Pictou, May 12,
1816
"On Friday last, seventy Emigrants arrived here from Leith in the
ship Aurora most of them are of a superior class
to those who arrived last year and it is probable that but few
of them will remain in this district, but we understand that a
great
number more are to be expected in the course of this Summer."
Idem, Doc. 129, Denoon & Others to Cogswell, Oct. 15,
1816
"One Ship and one Brig has arrived here from N. Britain with Passengers
amounting as we understand to three hundred souls . . . another
Vessel with One hundred and fifty more may be daily expected. — A
great part of these people are of the most indigent Class without
funds in this country . . ."
Colin S. MacDonald, "Early Highland Emigration to Nova Scotia
and Prince Edward Island from 1770-1853," The Nova Scotia Historical
Society, Collections, Vol. 23
In 1816, the ship The Good Intent arrived at Pictou from Aberdeen
after a two to three months crossing.
In 1816, also, the ship The Three Brothers arrived at Nova Scotia
from Hull with "some settlers."
C.O. 217/98, Dalhousie to Bathurst, Jan. 2, 1817
"In the course of the last Summer a very considerable number of
Highlanders from Scotland landed on the Eastern shores, about
Pictou, & joined a settlement of their Countrymen in that district
. . ."
|
| New Halifax-Annapolis Road |
| |
Disbanded Soldiers & Pensioners
J.S. Martell, "Military Settlements in Nova Scotia after the War
of 1812," The Nova Scotia Historical Society, Collections,
Vol. 24
The Royal Newfoundland Fencibles were disbanded at Halifax in June
1816. Two captains, five lieutenants, one ensign, one quarter-master,
seven sergeants, and eighty-three of the rank and file, 99 in all,
accepted the offer of free land in Nova Scotia. Most of them went to
the new military settlement laid out for them at Sherwood and Sherbrooke
(now New Ross) in Lunenburg County.
The Nova Scotia Fencibles were disbanded at Halifax in July, 1816.
Led by Captain William Ross, 172 of them are said to have arrived at
Sherbrooke on August 7, 1816
C.O. 217/98, Dalhousie to Bathurst, Jan. 2, 1817
Many out-pensioners of the Chelsea Hospital had arrived and expected
lands and rations. "I have no authority to grant them any support, — they
are now here many of them in the most pitiful distress." They said
a great number were coming in the spring. Dalhousie recommended that
they be treated like disbanded Fencibles and located with them |
| Cape Breton |
| |
D.C. Harvey, op. cit.
The extant census rolls for Cape Breton in 1818 list 129 Scots, 47
Irish, and 4 Frenchmen (two from France and two from the Magdalene
Islands) who settled in the Island in 1816. |
|
| Halifax |
| |
In a letter of "A Resident Mechanic" of
Halifax, dated July 25, 1817, and published in the Acadian Recorder of
the following day, it is stated that since the first of July, 1817, "not
less than nine Vessels have arrived from Europe, viz.
4 from Scotland, 4 from Ireland, and 1 from England, having on
board 1254 passengers; the last arrival bringing advice that there
are
5 Vessels taking in passengers for this Province, at Londonderry,
and 4 others at Belfast . . ." It is clear that the nine vessels
between July 1 and 25 came to Halifax; but those that came after
that date may have gone to other ports, Pictou or Sydney or elsewhere.
| Acadian Recorder July 19, 1817 |
| The following vessels arrived since
our last, brought passengers: |
| ship Brunswick |
Londonderry |
231 |
| ship Agincourt |
Leith |
199 |
| brig Amity |
Thurso |
125 |
| brig Pilot |
Dundee |
44 |
|
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
Jan. 4 |
schooner Isabella |
St. John's, Nfld. |
55 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Jan. 25 |
schooner Consolation |
St. John's, Nfld. |
30 passengers, principally mechanics
(bound for Halifax, forced into Pope's Harbour, Halifax Co.) |
| |
|
A gentleman arrived in town yesterday morning from
Pope's Harbour; he arrived there in the schooner Consolation, Marvin,
about 8 days since from St. Johns, Newfoundland after a boisterous
passage of thirty days; during which she lost her keel, and received
considerable other injury, and would be obliged to discharge her
cargo of fish. The Consolation has on board 30 passengers, principally
mechanics. The sch. Lively, Davis was to sail in a few days after
Capt. Marvin and would also bring a number of passengers. Our informant
also states that a schooner belonging to Mr. Ridgeway of this town,
went ashore in the above harbour, but would be got off without any
material injury. |
| |
|
schooner Shamrock, which left St,
John's for Halifax about Dec. 1, 1816 with 49 passengers, believed
lost.
A new schooner about 40 tons burthen called the Shamrock,
James Burke master, sailed from St. Johns Newfoundland, about the
last of Nov.,
or the first of Dec. for this place, having on board forty-nine passengers
- As she has not arrived, the following particulars collected from
the master of a schooner which sailed in company with her, will warrant
the belief that she has foundered; "Dec. 22d saw the sch. Shamrock having
lost her fore-mast; she appeared to be in a sinking state; it blowing
a gale and the sea running very high, could not lend her
assistance; it is conjectured she must have gone down that night,
as she was not to be seen on the morning of the 23d." The owner,
Mr. John Spencer and his brother were on board. |
| |
Idem |
Feb. 8 |
schooner Lively |
St. John's, Nfld. |
about 20 passengers
(bound for Halifax, forced into Beaver Harbour, Halifax Co.) |
| |
|
|
The sch. Lively, Davis, from St. John's Newfoundland,
of and for this port, put into Beaver Harbour on the 10th ult. in
distress. On the 6th she experienced a heavy gale in which she lost
both masts. One man was killed and several wounded by the shifting
of the cargo during the gale. The Lively has brought about 20 passengers;
among them is Mr. L. K. Ryan of St. Johns; he left the schooner at
Beaver Harbour, and came by land. |
| |
Idem |
July 12 |
schooner Angelique |
St. John's, Nfld. |
30 passengers |
| |
Idem |
July 19 |
ship Brunswick |
Londonderry |
231 passengers |
| |
|
". . . six ships with Passengers, were to sail shortly
(from Londonderry) after the Brunswick." |
| |
Idem |
July 26 |
ship Halifax Packet |
Londonderry |
171 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Aug. 2 |
ship Marcus Hill |
53 days, Londonderry |
250 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Aug. 30 |
schooner Critic |
28 days, St. John's Nfld. |
36 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 13 |
brig Mary |
63 days, Dublin |
88 passengers |
| |
|
|
Amelia |
Coleraine, N. Ireland |
84 passengers |
| |
|
|
brig Hibernia |
55 days, Londonderry |
17 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 18 |
schooner Union |
105 days, Dublin "via Newfoundland" |
65 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Nov. 1 |
schooner Angelique |
10 days, St. John's, Nfld. |
about 50 passengers, mostly labourers |
| |
|
Several vessels were to sail from St. John's to Halifax
shortly "with passengers" |
| |
Idem |
Nov. 29 |
Sisters |
Burin, Nfld. |
46 passengers |
| |
|
|
schooner Elizabeth |
21 days, St. John's, Nfld. |
28 passengers |
| |
PANS, Vol. 305, Doc. 121, Michael Tobin and Samuel
Cunard to Dalhousie, Halifax, Feb. 9, 1818
"In the month of December last we were visited by above 300 Men,
Women & Children from Newfoundland most of whom landed amongst us
in a destitute State many of them being shipwrecked on their way
here & had lost the Remains of what they may have saved from the
fires of 7th & 21st Novem." |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
Dec. 13 |
brig Comet |
Cork |
30 passengers |
| |
Idem - Jan. 3, 1818 - "A schooner from
Newfoundland, from [for] Prince Edward Island, with 60 Passengers,
was lost at Petit
de Grate." This was probably the Argyle which,
according to Peter DeLisle of Arichat (PANS, Vol. 329, Doc. 47),
was wrecked near "Petit Degrat" in December 1817. The passengers
& crew (64 in all) of the Argyle were given
passage to Antigonish whence they probably made their own way to
Halifax. ". . . another schooner from the same place with 30
passengers, [wrecked] on Antigonish Bar, about 3 weeks since ; 5
men perished."
"A schooner from Newfoundland with 120 passengers, for Halifax, has
lately been wrecked on Green Island." |
| Scots: |
Acadian Recorder |
May 3 |
ship Protector |
Greenock |
a number of farmers and mechanics |
| |
Idem |
July 5 |
brig Helen |
Kirkaldy, N. Britain |
93 passengers |
| |
|
|
brig Douglas |
63 days, Aberdeen |
several passengers |
| |
Idem |
July 12 |
ship Nancy |
80 days, Leith |
130 passengers |
| |
|
|
brig Amity |
25 days, Kirkness |
125 passengers |
| |
|
brig Traveller, bound from Leith to
Halifax, foundered about May 23, Crew and 30 passengers saved and
landed at Charlottetown, PEI. |
| |
Idem |
Aug 30 |
brig Prompt |
49 days, Leith, "bound for Quebec, with 60 passengers, — parted
company several days since with four brigs for this place [Halifax]
with passengers |
| |
(When a ship was forced into Halifax for provisions
or repairs, the fact seems to have been always noted in the shipping
news. As this was not the case with the Prompt,
it may be assumed that she entered Halifax to land sixty passengers.
Other ships elsewhere
did this.)
A "S. Ship" [sailingship?] Prompt,
captain Cloverdale, arrived at Quebec July 6th 1817, 8 weeks from
Greenock, with Mr.& Mrs. Munn, and 133 settlers. see
Quebec arrival |
| |
Idem |
Sept 13 |
brig Scotia |
Leith |
120 passengers |
| |
Idem October 4
Tuesday September 30 arr.:—the brig Jessie from
Dumfries for St. Andrews [N.B.] anchored at the beach this evening
with part of the crew
and passengers of the ship Lantaro of Charleston S.C. which unfortunately
foundered at sea on the 9th ult. The following persons were saved
in the long boat:
Cabin passengers:— Messrs. Ainsley Hall, Wm. Hall,
Wm. Weston, John C. Ross.
Steerage passengers:— Messrs. Duncan Darrock,
John M'Eachern, Thomas M'Gregor, Peter Gaines.
Crew saved:— Benjamin
Matthews, master. Hugh Livingston, John Smith 1st and 2nd mates.
John Evans, carpenter. Wm. Morgan, steward. John Pollanick, John
Picknel,
James Clarke, James ?, John Riggings, seamen. John Bernard,
Hector M'Pherson, apprentices. —Total 20.
Passengers lost in the
ship:— L. M'Neal, wife and two children; Archibald M'Donald,
wife and five children; Mr. Black and wife; Duncan M'Millen, his
mother
and sister; James Duncan; Mr. Murray, and one man name unknown; Ellison
Castor, cook; W. Bradbury, seaman - Total 27 persons.
The captain
and six of the seamen were put on board a schooner for Philadelphia. |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 11 |
brig Prince Leopold |
42 days, Leith |
30 passengers |
| English: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1817 387 English |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
July 5 |
ship Thomas |
58 days, Bristol |
30 to 40 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Aug 23 |
Sunday August 17 arr:—ship Thomas,
Bothwick, 58 days from London, put in here for provisions having
on board 150 passengers
- she cleared for St. Andrews but the passengers are all for the
U.S. |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 20 |
ship Hercules |
56 days, London |
about 10 passengers |
| Sydney |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 329, Doc. 109 |
July 23 |
Hope |
Greenock |
161 passengers |
| |
July 25 |
William Tell |
Greenock |
221 passengers |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
Aug. 2 |
"A ship and a brig" arrived at Sydney with "400 passengers,
from the Orkney Islands." (this ship and brig no doubt were the Hope and William
Tell, before mentioned). Another ship with 250 passengers
was expected at Sydney from the same place. |
| Canso |
| Scots: |
Colin S. MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
"Ship William Tell came out to Canso, NS with settlers
from Barra" in 1817 |
| New Halifax-Annapolis Road |
| |
Disbanded Soldiers
J.S. Martell, op. cit. p.93 ff
More disbanded soldiers were placed along the projected Halifax-Annapolis
Road in 1817. In April of the year, Surveyor-General Morris wrote to
Captain Ross of Sherbrooke: "You may soon expect —Many Setlers
[sic] Germans and Highlanders on your Road between Gold River and Annapolis
. . . " In the same month Dalhousie asked Lord Bathurst for permission
(received) to grant free land to about 50 Germans of the 7th Batt.,
60th Regiment. Another military settlement on this road,
Dalhousie, seems to have been started late in 1817. |
| St. Peter's |
| |
Disbanded Soldiers
PANS, Vol. 328, Doc. 31, John Luce to William Bruce,
St. Peter's. June 17, 1817
"A party of the disbanded 104th
Regt. arrived here, last Friday, from Quebec." 2 Sergeants, 12 Privates, 4
Women, 4 Children. Where would Lieutenant-Governor Ainslie allow them to settle?
Writing some years later (PANS, Vol. 330, Doc. 104), Surveyor-General Crawley
said that he knew of "but one Settlement that has the smallest claim to the
title of Military" in Cape Breton, and that there were "four or five Soldiers
obtained free Grants during the Administration of General Ainslie." Ainslie
was Governor in 1817
|
| Elsewhere |
| |
C.O. 217/99, Report of Surveyor-General Morris, enclosed
in Dalhousie to Bathurst, Dec. 14, 1817
The Surveyor-General sressed the importance of preparing suitable
lands for immigrants at "this interesting Crisis, when so many hundred
Families of Emigrants are daily arriving in different parts of this
Country, and desirous of being placed on Lands as near to the Public
Roads, Harbours and Rivers, as possible . . ."
This may mean the scattering of immigrants after their
landing, but more likely it means that we every reason to believe
that they were arriving at various places. Although no specific records
were found for Pictou in 1817, it is known that immigrants were arriving
there.
Wednesday July 23 arr:— brig Endeavour,
Scott, Jamaica 39 days to Mr. J.W. Morris; sch. Good Intent, Quebec
18 days; sch. Parker,
Boyd, New York, 5 days, passenger A.W. Cochran Esq.; ship Veterlandslabe,
Heserenkel from Antwerp, 68 days out, bound to Philadelphia with
283 passengers- put in here for provisions and water.
Saturday Aug. 30The ship Lord Nelson with 230 passengers from
Londonderry was wrecked on Sunday last at Port Mills near Shelburne
- crew and passengers saved. |
|
| Halifax |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1818 — 1,637 Scots |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
April 25 |
brig Louisa |
24 days, Aberdeen |
25 passengers |
| |
|
|
brig Aimwell |
Aberdeen |
33 passengers |
| |
Idem |
May 16 |
brig Skeene |
40 days, Leith |
85 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Aug. 29 |
Louisa |
Aberdeen |
15 passengers |
| |
|
|
Ann |
Leith |
129 passengers |
| |
|
|
British Queen |
Leith |
131 passengers |
| Irish: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1818 559 Irish |
| |
C.O. 217/101, p. 441
In a letter of May 30, 1818, W.H. Reed, HM Consul General for the
Azores, stated that he had sent 51 shipwrecked Irish immigrants
to Halifax on the British schooner Swift. |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
June 13 |
Industry |
Newry |
157 passengers |
| |
|
The Industry some days later cleared
for Philadelphia with 65 passengers |
| |
|
|
Fame |
Waterford |
103 passengers |
| |
Idem |
July 11 |
brig Four Brothers |
Waterford |
50 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 5 |
brig Clyde |
Dublin |
85 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 10 |
brig Marinhull |
9 days. Burin, Nfld. |
22 settlers |
| |
|
|
brig Fame |
"from Belfast, for this place, out 49 days, with 114
passengers, went on shore . . . at Cole Harbour.— Passengers
and Crew saved." |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 24 |
brig Martha |
49 days, Newry |
84 settlers |
| |
Fishing vessel Triton, "Spoke, Saturday
last, a brig from Dublin for this place with a number of passengers
on board." |
| English: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1818 320 English |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
July 11 |
schooner Lavinia |
40 days, Plymouth |
50 passengers |
| |
|
|
schooner Speculator |
42 days, Plymouth |
62 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Aug. 29 |
ship Thomas |
London |
31 passengers |
| |
|
|
brig Commerce |
London |
12 passengers |
| |
|
|
brig Mary |
Plymouth |
38 passengers |
| Welsh: |
Acadian Recorder |
May 16 |
brig Fanny |
42 days, Carmarthen, Wales |
112 passengers |
| |
|
|
Some of the Welsh passengers aboard the Fanny,
are thought to have proceeded to the settlement of New Cambria (later
"Welshtown,") Shelburne
County. They departed Halifax aboard the schooner Two Brothers June
15, 1818 (see muster
roll) |
| New Halifax-Annapolis Road |
| |
Disbanded Soldiers
J.S. Martell, op. cit. pp.99-100
More forner soldiers, mostly of the 98th (99th prior
to 1816) Regt. disbanded in 1818, were placed on this road particularly
at Dalhousie where 189 men were listed in the autumn of 1818. In
the same year, a few soldiers from various units began the small
settlements of Wellington at the Halifax end of the road. |
| Elsewhere |
| |
No records have been found of immigration at Sydney
or Pictou. The following item in the Acadian Recorder of
march 28, 1818, may indicate that immigrants landed at Canso in that
month: "The brig Endeavour, Scott, which arrived on Thursday,
spoke a schooner on the 21st, from Belfast for Newfoundland,
full of passengers, which afterwards put into Canso, after having
been six weeks in the ice."
Another item in the Acadian Recorder of June 27, 1818, stated
that a brig from the North of Ireland bound for New Brunswick with
200 passengers went ashore on June 14 near Yarmouth. The passengers
were taken to that town where some of them may have stayed because
their vessel had been "totally lost, and with her, the whole of the
Passengers effects." |
|
| Halifax |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1819 974 Scots |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
April 24 |
brig Louisa |
30 days, Aberdeen |
passengers |
| |
Idem |
May 1 |
brig Skeene |
33 days, Leith |
113 passengers |
| |
see Quebec
arrival for this ship , June 5th 1819 |
| |
Idem |
June 26 |
ship Agincourt |
Leith |
135 passengers |
| |
Idem |
July 17 |
brig Leopold |
44 days, Leith |
89 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Aug. 28 |
brig Caledonia |
Greenock |
passengers |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 4 |
brig Garland |
Leith |
90 passenger |
| |
|
|
brig Minerva |
Leith |
47 passengers |
| Irish: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1819 912 Irish |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
June 12 |
ship Halifax Packet |
38 days, Londonderry |
113 passengers |
| |
|
|
Enterprise |
Dublin |
103 passengers |
| |
|
The ship Lord Gardner with passengers was to have sailed
from Ireland for Halifax and New Brunswick on May 15, 1819 |
| |
Idem |
June 26 |
brig Sir John Cammeron |
Waterford |
112 passengers |
| |
|
|
brig Johns |
Kinsale |
130 passengers |
| |
Idem |
July 10 |
schooner Mary |
21 days, St, John's, Nfld. |
several passengers |
| |
Idem |
July 31 |
brig Frances-Ann |
49 days, Londonderry |
120 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 11 |
brig Chatty |
Dublin |
113 passengers |
| English: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1819 197 English |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
Apr. 24 |
ship Northumberland |
London "14 days from the Isle of White" [sic] |
passengers |
| |
Idem |
June 26 |
brig Integrity |
Workington |
55 passengers |
| |
Idem |
July 17 |
schooner Lavinia |
17 days, Plymouth |
32 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 4 |
"The passengers on the brig Amelia, take this public
method of expressing the high sense they entertain of Capt. King's
polite and kind attention to them, during their passage from Liverpool,
G.B. to this port. Halifax, Sept. 4th, 1819"
(This testimonial, noted by chance, is the only indication that the
Amelia brought passengers to Halifax. The Amelia, in fact, is not
even listed among arrivals. This is one instance of the incompleteness
of the shipping lists published in the newspapers.) |
| Welsh: |
Acadian Recorder |
May 29 |
brig Fanny |
Caermarthen, Wales |
94 passengers |
| Passengers from the United
States |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
Aug. 7 |
schooner Harriett Newell |
New York |
6 steerage |
| |
Idem |
Aug. 28 |
schooner Cherub |
Boston |
7 steerage |
| |
|
|
schooner Rambler |
Boston |
4 steerage |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 9 |
schooner Cherub |
Boston |
6 steerage |
| |
|
|
schooner Eliza & Nancy |
New York |
3 steerage |
| Pictou |
| Scots: |
No lists were found of shipping at Pictou, only the
casual reference in the Halifax Acadian Recorder. |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
Aug 28 |
ship Speculator, Scotland, "with 150
Highland passengers; 23 were landed, and the remainder would go to
Quebec in the ship." (Colin S. MacDonald, op. cit., p.45, records
that in 1819 the "ship Speculation came out to Nova Scotia, sailing
from Greenock with emigrants from Lochaber.")
(see Quebec arrival ship Speculation Sept. 12 1819) |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 4 |
brig Louisa |
31 days, Aberdeen |
120 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 16 |
Testimonial: "THE PASSENGERS in the ship Economy of
Aberdeen from Tobermorry to Pictou, desire in this public manner
to express their gratitude to captain James Fraser, the master, for
the kind treatment they received from him during the passage, which
consisted of five weeks. Two hundred and eighty-five souls embarked
at Tobermorry, and were landed in good health and spirits, together
with four children born upon the passage. Pictou, October 4, 1819." |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 30, 1819 ; May 5, 1821
schooner Ann, Cromarty, "about 60 Emigrants." Later it was stated
that the number was 79. |
| |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
ship Victory, "settlers from Canna." |
| Elsewhere |
| |
In the winter of 1820, Surveyor-General Morris recommended
an accurate survey of the forest lands of the province so that they
could be divided into "regular alotments for the immediate Reception
of the many hundreds of hardy Emigrants arrived and continually landing
upon our Coast and too many of them Wandering without a home or place
of Rest—& for want of the neccessary Aid and encouragement
seeking an Asylum in a foreign Country." (PANS, Vol. 306, Doc. 60) |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
July 31 |
brig Mermaid, Dublin, "73 passengers" went ashore near
Cape Negro on July 16. Passengers and Crew saved. |
|
| Halifax |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1820 803 Scots |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
June 3 |
brig Manchester |
Leith |
26 passenger |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 7 |
brig Recovery |
Greenock |
14 in steerage |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
June 3 |
brig Oliphit |
Belfast |
43 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 16 |
brig Frances & Lucy |
45 days, Londonderry |
passengers |
| English: |
Acadian Recorder |
June 24 |
brig Wharton |
53 days, London |
passengers |
| |
Idem |
Aug. 5 |
brig Alice |
49 days, London |
passengers |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 14 |
Fame |
Liverpool |
passengers |
| Passengers from the United
States |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
Mar. 11 |
schooner Victory |
Boston |
4 in steerage |
| |
|
|
(The Victory, General Greene, and Cherub were regular
Halifax and Boston packets in 1820) |
| Pictou |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 229, Doc. 34, George Smith to R.D. George
(Provincial Secretary), Pictou, June 30, 1820
Pictou was the landing place for immigrants settling in Pictou, Colchester
and Cumberland.
". . .they are the most useful description of Settlers that come
here mostly from Scotland—with a determination to settle immediately
. . ." |
| St. Anns, C.B. |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 334, Doc. 34, October 26, 1820
List of 15 Scots who with their familes totalled 78 people who had
"lately Arrived at St. Anns" |
| St. Peter's, C.B. |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 334, Doc. 48, Laurence Kavanagh to R.D.
George, St. Peter's, January 10, 1821
Kavanagh wrote that in obedience to the commands given by Lt. Gov.
Kempt in December, 1820, he had distributed Indian Meal among "the
poor emigrants lately from Scotland." |
|
| Halifax |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
May 19 |
brig Rob Roy |
31 days, Belfast |
139 Emigrants |
| |
Idem |
May 26 |
brig Amicus |
43 days, Cork |
98 emigrants |
| |
PANS, Vol. 230, Doc. 132, Sir Charles Hamilton to Sir
James Kempt, Fort Townshend, St. John's, Nfld., December 8, 1821
Immigrants (mostly Irish) were evidently still coming into Halifax
from Newfoundland. This letter explains:
"I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's
Letter of 24th October transmitting a Copy of a Representation made
to you by the Magistrates and Commissioners of the Poor for the town
of Halifax, on the subject of the removal of poor people from Newfoundland
to the province of Nova Scotia; and in reply to acquaint Your Excellency
that a very Considerable Number of the people who are employed in
the fisheries of this Island are unable to obtain employment here
in the Winter and are neccessitated to remove elsewhere. This year
it is more eminently the Case from the general failure of the fishery
throughout the Island—but aware of the increased burden it
must bring on the Community of Nova Scotia, whose humane consideration
for those unfortunate people has on many occasions been conspicuous,
I have discouraged as far as possible, and shall continue so to do,
their removal to Nova Scotia—and have not except in a very
few Instances where proof has been laid before me of ability to provide
for themselves, granted passes, without which document the Master
of the Vessel is liable to a penalty of £200—by the 15
Geo 3 Cap 31 Sec 12 for conveying to the continent of America any
person of the description above mentioned, which by the 33rd Section
of the same Act I presume may be recovered by the Vice Admiralty
Court at Halifax. Your Excellency will be aware that Vessels may
sail from the Out Ports of this Island with passengers without my
knowledge or control, and the offence against the Act can only be
complete on their arrival in the Colony on the Continent." |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1821 803 Scots |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
May 12 |
brig Louisa |
43 days, Aberdeen |
9 steerage |
| |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
ship Tamarlin "arrived at Halifax" in 1821 |
| Passengers from the United
States |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
July 14 |
schooner Victory |
Boston |
3 steerage |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 27 |
schooner Cherub |
4 days, Boston |
a number in the steerage |
| Sydney |
| Scots: |
C.O. 217/152, p. 413, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Sydney, 1821 276 Scots |
| |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
In 1821, the ship Harmony "sailed from Barra and arrived
at Sydney, Nova Scotia, with 350 settlers from Barra." |
| Pictou |
| Scots: |
Acadian Recorder |
May 12 |
brig Thompson Packet |
30 days, Dumfries |
80 passengers |
| |
Montreal Gazette |
Oct 31 |
brig Thistle Capt. Allen |
Tobermory 22nd Aug |
55 passengers |
| |
|
|
Thistle arrived at Pictou
22nd September and continued to Quebec with 45 passengers, arriving
18th October |
|
| Halifax |
| Irish: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1822 74 Irish |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1822 42 Scots |
| English: |
Acadian Recorder |
May 25 |
ship Frindsbury |
42 days, London |
11 steerage |
| Passengers from British North American Colonies |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
July 27 |
schooner Good Intent |
17 days, Miramichi |
50 passengers |
| Pictou |
| Scots: |
Acadian Recorder |
June 15 |
brig Union |
48 days, Greenock |
14 passengers |
| |
|
|
brig Thompson's Packet |
35 days, Dumfries |
133 passengers |
| English: |
Acadian Recorder |
June 15 |
brig Mary |
52 days, Whitehaven |
39 passengers |
| Sydney |
| Scots: |
C.O. 217/152, p. 413, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Sydney, 1822 181 Scots |
| Plaster Rock |
| |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
ship Commerce, Tobermory, "settlers from Muck" |
|
| Halifax |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1823 403 Scots |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder Nov 29—Some Irish and others
were probably coming in from Newfoundland. In the Acadian Recorder of
this date it is noted that two ships, the schooner St. John's
Packet and the schooner Mayflower,
bound from Newfoundland to Halifax, with passengers, were wrecked,
the first off Newfoundland and the other
off Cape Breton. Only three people lost their lives. |
| Elsewhere |
| Irish: |
The Connaught Journal, Galway, 28 August 1823—The Hope,
from Belfast, with passengers, &c., for St.
John, was lost on Sable Island, on the 2nd June, when
the following persons were drowned: John McRannell, parish of Killead,
seaman;
Eliza Williamson, from Belfast; and Margaret and Jane Moorhead, of
Monaghan, passengers. There were 155
passengers on board. |
|
| Halifax |
| English: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1824 106 English |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
Jul 17 |
brig Trafalger |
Liverpool |
5 in steerage |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
July 24 |
packet schooner Brothers |
11 days, St. John's, Nfld. |
3 in the steerage |
| Passengers from the United States |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
July 17 |
schooner Billow |
Boston |
6 steerage |
| |
Idem |
July 24 |
packet schooner George Henry |
6 days, Boston |
6 steerage |
| Sydney |
| Scots: |
C.O. 217/152, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Sydney, 1824 215 Scots |
| |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
ship Dunlop, with 96 settlers | see
report of ships' Quebec
arrival |
| Pictou |
| English: |
Acadian Recorder |
June 12 |
brig Enterprise |
59 days, Liverpool |
a number in steerage |
| Barrington |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
Sept. 4 |
ship Elizabeth, bound from Sligo to St. John, N.B.,
"112 passengers," struck ledge near Cape Sable. Ship disabled and
towed in Barrington. Some of the passengers may have stayed in Nova
Scotia. |
|
| Halifax |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1825 92 Scots |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
June 4 |
schooner Brothers |
9 days, St. John's, Nfld. |
16 steerage passengers |
| |
Idem |
July 23 |
brig Resolution |
34 days, Dublin |
34 passengers |
| English: |
Acadian Recorder |
Oct. 1 |
brig Louisa |
40 days, Liverpool |
2 steerage |
| Sydney |
| Scots: |
C.O. 217/152, p. 413, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Sydney, 1825 429 Scots |
|
| Halifax |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
May 20 |
ship Rubicon |
28 days, Waterford |
150 passengers |
| |
Idem |
June 3 |
brig Thomas |
35 days, Waterford |
91 passengers |
| |
Idem |
June 10 |
ship Nassau, wrecked on Sable Island.
The schooner
Two Brothers arrived at Halifax with "95 of the
survivors from the ship Nassau." From "20 to 30"
still remained on the Island. A letter from R.D. George to Thomas
G. Pyke on June 10, 1826 (PANS, Inland Letter Books) indicates that
these were Irishmen. On the application of the magistrates and other
gentlemen of Halifax, Lieutenant-Governor Kempt agreed to grant £100
for the relief of "the destitute state of Irish Emigrants who were
lately shipwrecked on the Isle of Sable." |
| |
Idem |
June 17 |
schooner Mary, Sable Island, with the remainder of
the crew and passengers of the ship Nassau." |
| |
note: the ship Nassau, Captain Kenny, was bound from
Dublin to Quebec with about 140 passengers. See the 1826 Quebec newspaper
reports here . . and . . here. |
| |
Idem |
June 24 |
brig Maria |
31 days, Cork |
27 in steerage |
| |
|
|
sloop Acadia, bound from St. John's, Nfld., to Halifax,
with "a number of passengers," struck on a rock near Canso Light.
Towed to safety. "Some of the passengers" arrived at Halifax in the
Eliza. |
| |
Idem |
July 22 |
brig Albion |
32 days, Cork |
47 passengers |
| |
Idem |
July 29 |
brig Nancy |
45 days, Dublin |
116 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 21 |
schooner Mary |
20 days, St. John's, Nfld. |
31 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Nov 25 |
brig Admiral Lake |
15 days, St. John's, Nfld. |
13 in steerage |
| |
|
|
schooner William Hunter |
10 days, St. John's, Nfld. |
53 in steerage |
| Passengers from the United States |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
July 22 |
"In the Packet from New York"—several
in the steerage |
| |
Idem |
Sept 9 |
schooner Billow |
5 days, Boston |
5 in steerage |
| |
Idem |
Nov. 4 |
brig James |
6 days, Philadelphia |
3 in steerage |
| English: |
Acadian Recorder |
Oct. 28 |
brig Aurora |
33 days, London |
several in steerage |
| Scots: |
Acadian Recorder |
May 13 |
brig Mercator |
42 days, Greenock |
2 steerage |
| Liverpool |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
Nov. 25 |
brig Caledonia |
St. Johns, Nfld. |
84 in steerage |
| Pictou |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
July 15 |
brig Hopewell |
Belfast |
passengers |
| Sydney |
| Scots: |
C.O. 217/152, p. 413, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Sydney, 1826 342 Scots |
| |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
ship Tamarlin, "passengers from North Morar" |
| Canso |
| Scots: |
The Canadian Courant, Quebec, reports that
the bark
Cadmus, Captain Snowden, sailed from Tobermory on
the 9th August, and arrived
at Quebec on October 1st 1826, after having landed her passengers
[number and
date not noted] at the Gut of Canso. |
| McNab's, C.B. |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 335, Doc. 64, Charles McNab to Sir James
Kempt, McNab's, September 28, 1826
"About four hundred emigrants from the Hebrides lately arrived at
this Island are now in the lake, and it is said that two more vessels
with an equal number are daily expected . . ." |
| Elsewhere |
| Scots: |
Colin S. MacDonald, op. cit. p.45
ship Northumberland, Greenock, landed passengers from the Hebrides
at St. Andrew's, N.B. "Many of the settlers removed later on to
Inverness County, N.S."
ships Highland Lad and Dove of Harmony "arrived at Nova Scotia
this year." |
| |
C.O. 217/146, Sir James Kempt to Wilmot Horton, September
14, 1826
Of late years, immigrants had not been coming to the peninsula in
very considerable numbers, but Scots, mostly from the Western Islands,
had continued to arrive in steady numbers at Cape Breton. In 1826,
nearly 500 of them had come to Cape Breton at their own expense.
They landed at Sydney, Ship Harbour, and other places, and immediately
disappeared in search of their friends and unoccupied land. |
|
| Halifax |
| Irish: |
Novascotian |
May 3 |
barque Liberty |
21 days, Waterford |
127 passengers |
| |
|
|
"Two other ships [from Waterford] were to follow, with
passengers for this Port, [Halifax]." |
| |
Idem |
June 7 |
brig Cherub |
37 days, Waterford |
200 passengers |
| |
|
|
"the ship Boliver, with 400 passengers was to sail
[from Waterford] next day, and a second ship with the same number
to sail about the 10th April." |
| |
Idem |
June 14 |
ship Boliver |
40 days, Waterford |
350 passengers |
| |
Idem |
June 21 |
ship Letitia |
48 days, Dublin |
210 passengers |
| |
Idem |
June 28 |
"A brig from Derry, Ireland, bound to St. John, N.B.
with Passengers, put into Shelburne last week, and landed a number
there, some of whom arrived here [Halifax] on Sunday night last,—others
we understand are on their way." |
| |
Idem |
July 5 |
ship Cumberland |
43 days, Waterford |
350 passengers |
| |
PANS, Vol. 307, Doc. 124, Sir James
Kempt to Lord Goderich, September 7, 1827
"There arrived this day in the brig James from
Waterford One Hundred and twenty Passengers of the most wretched description,
all of whom, as well as the whole Crew . . . are labouring
under Typhus Fever. One hundred and sixty embarked in Ireland—five
died at Sea,—and the Vessel being obliged to put into St. John's,
Newfoundland for Medical Assistance and Provisions, thirty-five were
left behind there too ill to proceed."
The Novascotian (Sept. 13, 1827) reported that the James came
from Belfast and had 130 immigrants. The Acadian Recorder (Sept. 8,
1827) was apparently referring to the same ship in the following note:
"The brig Fame, arrived yesterday from Newfoundland—crew
and passengers to the number of 130 ill of Typhus Fever." |
| |
Novascotian |
Sept. 13 |
Government brig Forte, 4½ days. St. John's,
Nfld., "forty masons (with their familes) for the [Shubenacadie]
Canal." |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1827 205 Scots |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
May 5 |
brig Aberdeenshire |
54 days, Aberdeen |
23 passengers |
| |
|
|
brig Mercator |
29 days, Greenock |
18 passengers |
| |
Idem |
Sept. 8 |
brig Corsair |
29 days, Greenock |
80 passengers |
| English: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1827 8 English |
| |
Novascotian |
May 3 |
Adelphi |
25 days, Liverpool |
2 steerage |
| Passengers from British North American Colonies |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
Aug. 11 |
schooner Experiment |
13 days, Quebec |
6 passengers |
| |
Novascotian |
Sept. 6 |
schooner Greyhound |
Miramichi |
31 passengers |
| Passengers from the United States |
| |
Acadian Recorder |
June 9 |
schooner Billow |
4 days, Boston |
3 in steerage |
| Sydney |
| Scots: |
C.O. 217/152, p. 413, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Sydney, 1827 944 Scots |
| |
Novascotian, September 13, 1827
"Seven hundred emigrants were to embark in the end of July at Tobermory,
destined for the Island of Cape Breton. 600 emigrated from the
same place last year, and it is stated that 1000 more individuals
have 'determined to follow their friends and relations to their
transatlantic settlement next year'." |
| |
PANS, Vol. 307, Doc. 126, John Whyte, Surgeon, to R.D.
George, Sydney, December 19, 1827
" . . . I find that the brig Stephen Wright, of Newcastle
which performed Quarantine in this port during the past season [September] had
on board 170 passengers [from Tobermory] More than one third of whom were afflicted
with Small Pox, and many now with Dysentery and other diseases—that during
the passage 3 deaths occurred, while in port 10, and 2 after landing . . .
" . . . the ship Harmony of Whitehaven also arrived at
a neighbouring port in August last having taken on board at Leith & Stornoway
above 200 Emigrants, 13 of whom died on the passage—5 were dead on board
& 22 were cut off after landing on an uninhabited Spot by Measles—Dysentery
and Starvation.
"The Cause of such dire fatality, can, I imagine, be readily traced to the confined,
crowded & filthy state of the vessels—the quantity & quality of food
in the case of one of them at least the scarcity of water. It was stated here
by the Captains of the Vessels that a very extensive emigration was contemplated
in the ensuing Spring & that 10 to 15 vessels belonging to the Owners of the
Stephen Wright had been chartered to convey these poor Creatures
from the Highlands & Islands of Scotland to meet famine, disease and death on
the shores of Cape Breton." |
| Scots & Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
Dec. 1 |
"Sydney, Cape Breton, October 23 . . . several vessels
have arrived this season from Scotland and Ireland with passengers." |
| |
Montreal Gazette |
Sept. 20 |
bark Queen, Captain Heath,
from Limerick 6th August, arrived at Quebec Sept. 16th with 74 settlers
| landed 24 settlers at Sydney, C.B. |
| St. Andrew's Channel, C.B. |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 336, Doc. 22, May 2, 1828
Petition of twenty-four families (127 persons) "from Scotland" who
had arrived in Cape Breton "during the last Autumn." They ask the
Government for provisions to hold them over to the harvest of 1828. |
| Port Hastings |
| Scots: |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
ship Aurora, "passengers from Edinburgh" |
| Pictou |
| English: |
Acadian Recorder |
June 16 |
brig Margaret, Liverpool, "with 85
Miners and all the necessary Engines, and Machinery to work the Mines
of this place." The Novascotian (June 14, 1827) had the same item
but states there were "35 Miners." |
| |
Novascotian |
Oct. 4 |
"A vessel was about being taken up at Liverpool, 24th
August, to carry to Pictou, forty workmen and materials for the Mining
Company." |
| |
Idem |
Oct. 18 |
Mary, Liverpool, "with men and machinery, to the Mining
Company . . ." |
|
| Halifax |
| Irish: |
Acadian Recorder |
May 31 |
brig Saltern's Rock |
35 days, Cork |
80 passengers |
| |
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(The Novascotian May 29, 1828 gives "70 passengers.") |
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Montreal Gazette |
July 04 |
Halifax, June 4th.— The Saltern Rock, which arrived
here last week from Belfast, brought 75 passengers, and gave bonds
against their becoming chargeable to the Province.
Yesterday, the brig Dale arrived in 30 days from
Dublin, bringing 100 passengers. She was boarded the Health Officer,
and ordered to come to anchor under the guns of the fort until the
necessary bonds were given.
The law requiring bonds to be given was passed at the last session
of the Halifax Leglislature. |
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Acadian Recorder |
June 7 |
brig Dale |
30 days, Dublin |
100 passengers |
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Idem—Aug. 2, 1828:-
H.M.S. Tyne—with 152 men, women and children
(including 10 of the crew and the mate) saved from the brig Dispatch,
bound from Londonderry to Quebec, wrecked off Newfoundland. "The
whole of these unfortunate people, we learn, were in comfortable
circumstances, one of whom, a Scotchman, had
property to the amount of £500 on board, and he is now left with
a family of 13 children, entirely destitute; indeed all that any
of them have saved are a few clothes which were washed on shore."
(see wreck report & list
of passengers) |
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Novascotian—Sept. 18, 1828:-
brig Henry Arnot, 52 days, Rio de Janeiro, "with 233 passengers (men,
women and children)—these unfortunate people are part of
the 2000, some of whom have arrived at New Brunswick"
"From New Brunswick Papers, received by yesterday's Stage, it appears
that a subscription has been set on foot for the relief of the
Irish Emigrants who have arrived at that port [St. John] from Brazil
. . ." |
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see
additional news item about their settlement at St. John |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1828 142 Scots |
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Acadian Recorder |
April 26 |
barque Isabella |
48 days, Greenock |
4 "spinners" for Messrs. Piers' Rope Walk |
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Novascotian |
June 26 |
brig Mercator |
30 days, Greenock |
12 in steerage |
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Idem |
Sept. 4 |
brig Aberdeenshire |
28 days, Aberdeen |
8 in steerage |
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Idem |
Sept. 25 |
ship Isabella |
28 days, Greenock |
several in steerage |
| English: |
Novascotian |
May 22 |
ship Atlantic |
32 days. Liverpool |
5 in steerage |
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Idem |
Aug. 21 |
brig Penelope |
60 days, Liverpool |
79 passengers |
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Acadian Recorder |
Nov. 22 |
ship Halifax |
32 days, Liverpool |
7 in steerage |
| Sydney |
| Scots: |
C.O. 217/152, p. 413, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Sydney, 1828 2,413 Scots
They were from "the Western parts of Scotland." (PANS,. Vol. 336, Doc.
75, Magistrates of Sydney to Lt. Gov. Maitland, February 16, 1829.) |
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Acadian Recorder |
July 12 |
"Port of Sydney, June 26 . . ."
ship Universe, Stornoway, 464 passengers
brig Ann, Stornoway, 269 passengers
"Two other vessels were to leave Scotland with Passengers for the
Bras'dore Lake shortly after the Universe sailed;
such were the crowded state of the Passengers in the Universe, that six families
were obliged to live in the long boat during the whole voyage." |
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PANS, Vol. 336, Doc. 48, John G. Marshall to R.D. George,
Sydney, September 9, 1828
brig Two Sisters, Greenock, arrived at Sydney on Sept. 7, 1828, "with
about 160 Scotch passengers, Several of whom are now under the Small-pox."
Idem— Doc.56 -
brig Mary, Stornoway, 135 Emigrants ; brig Commerce, Immigrants. |
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Acadian Recorder |
Oct. 18 |
"1480 Passengers arrived at Sydney, Cape Breton, between
6th August and 8th September. 2500 have landed in the Island since
the first of June. |
| Irish: |
C.O. 217/143, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Sydney, 1828 90 Irish |
| Ship Harbour (Port Hawkesbury) |
| Scots: |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 ; J.L. MacDougall,
History of Inverness County, p. 126
ship St. Lawrence, Tobermory, 208 passengers (Saint
Lawrence Passenger List) |
| Pictou |
| Scots: |
Colonial Patriot |
May 14 |
brig Thetis |
Greenock |
30 steerage pass. |
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Idem |
June 4 |
brig Caroline |
30 days, Fort William |
36 passengers |
| English: |
Colonial Patriot |
May 14 |
brig Maria |
Liverpool |
eight artificers for the mines |
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Idem |
Aug. 6 |
brig Thomas Battersby |
51 days, Liverpool |
Miners and machinery for the Albion Mining Co. |
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| Halifax |
| Scots: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1829 218 Scots |
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Novascotian |
April 23 |
brig Albion |
35 days, Aberdeen |
18 in steerage |
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Idem |
Sept. 3 |
brig Aberdeenshire |
38 days, Aberdeen |
27 passengers |
| Irish: |
PANS, Vol. 238, Doc. 27, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Halifax, 1829 138 Irish |
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Novascotian |
Nov. 6 1828 |
"Notice to Irish Immigrants"
PERSONS wanting their Friends out to this Country, from the Counties
of CORK, LIMERICK, and KERRY, are informed that a large vessel of the
first class, will sail from Tralee for St. John, New Brunswick and
Halifax, on or about the 1st of April next [1829]. Persons wishing
to avail themselves of this desirable opportunity, will please make
early application for particulars of passage &c. &c. &c. to
T.&E. KENNY
Halifax, Ocober 29, 1828
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Acadian Recorder |
Dec. 5 |
brig Gleaner |
6 days, St. John's, Nfld. |
passengers |
| Passengers from the United States |
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Acadian Recorder |
May 9 |
brig George Henry |
6 days, Boston |
1 steerage |
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Idem |
June 20 |
brig James |
5 days, Boston |
4 steerage |
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Idem |
Nov. 14 |
brig James |
4 days, Boston |
6 steerage |
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Idem |
Dec. 5 |
brig James |
55 hours, Boston |
6 steerage |
| English: |
Novascotian |
May 21 |
brig Ovington |
45 days, London |
6 steerage |
| Passengers from British North American Colonies |
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Acadian Recorder |
June 27 |
brig Ambassador |
11 days, Quebec |
2 steerage |
| Sydney |
| Scots: |
C.O. 217/152, p. 413, Customs Returns of Immigrants
at Sydney, 1829 719 Scots |
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PANS, Vol. 336, Doc. 90, C.E. Leonard & T.H. Clarke,
J.P.'s to R.D. George, Sydney, May 26, 1829
brig Louisa, Stornoway, "170 Emigrants (Seventy of whom have proceeded
to P.E. Island) . . ." |
| Arichat |
| Scots: |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
ship Thetis, Greenock, settlers |
| Cape Breton |
| Scots: |
Colin MacDonald, op. cit. p.45 |
ship Mary Kennedy, "from Skye to Cape Breton and then
to Prince Edward Island, with 84 heads of families . . ." |
| Pictou |
| Scots: |
Colonial Patriot |
May 20 |
schooner Mermaid, Arichat, with passengers from the
Thetis, from Greenock, wrecked off Cape Breton—"no lives lost." |
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Idem |
July 8 |
brig Hero |
Greenock |
157 passengers |
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Idem |
July 22 |
brig Nero |
Greenock |
passengers |
| Irish: |
Colonial Patriot |
May 20 |
ship Marchioness of Donegal |
28 days, Belfast |
42 passengers |
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