Clifford Sifton and Canada’s Immigration Policy
Clifford Sifton’s policy on immigration, as Minister of the Interior for the Liberal government of Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier was one of the principal factors
Canadian Immigration – Early 1900s
Canada’s 1901 census put our population at 5,371,315. Fifty-seven percent of those counted claimed British origins. In 1902 the greatest influx of immigrants in Canada’s
Millicent Rothwell from Liverpool England
by Brunette Reynaert(Aylmer W. Ontario Canada) Millicent was my grandmother. Her Father was Edward Henry Rothwell and her mother Eleanor Louise McKenzie. Eleanor gave birth
Elizabeth & Annie Edwards from Chester, England
by Colin.P.Horton(North Wales GB) Elizabeth was my wife’s Grandmother and Annie was her younger sister they emigrated together on 4th May 1912 from Liverpool to
Norah Malley from Isle of Man. Born 1891 Salford Lancashire
by Brenda Batho(Hertfordshire, England, UK) Nora(h) Malley born 1891 Salford Lancashire. Is living on the Isle of Man in the 1911 census occupation governess. Arriving
Henry Hamilton Toovey, born in Jersey Channel Islands UK in about April 1900.
by Cecilia Burkhalter (nee Cecilia Castro H Toovey(Denver CO USA) Henry was my great uncle the youngest son of Ernest and Ellen H. Toovey nee
Francis Saul – Hunmanby, East Yorkshire, England
by Janet Bessey (nee Saul)(Thornhill, Ontario) Francis Saul was born c.1782 in East Yorkshire England. He married Isabelle (Belle) Nicholson 23 December 1806 at Willerby
Christina Spence Killen(1881-?) Annabella Orr(Annie) Findleton nee Killen 1882-1966, Born in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
by Graeme Bennett(Auckland, New Zealand) I am trying to trace two sisters who travelled to Montreal in 1908.Christina has proved the most elusive, and for
Betty Hayes (nee Beryl Victoria May Mottershead) from Cheshire UK
by Sheila Haynes(Jersey Channel Islands) My Mother Betty Hayes left the family home in Southall Middlesex in 1960 never to be seen or heard of
Elsie Cooke from Bristol, England
By Anonymous, Elsie Cooke from Bristol, England We believe that Elsie Cooke immigrated from the Bristol England area in 1913 to Canada. We are searching
Winifred M Rodaska (nee Cowling)
by Patricia A Whitehead(Western Australia) Winifred b.1924 Yorkshire England, married Mark M Rodaska in 1946 at Hove, Sussex, England. Mark Rodaska was a Soldier.Winifred immigrated
The Berglas Family
To Montreal, Canada via London, England The following story was submitted by Harold Berglas of Montreal. My Mother – Aida Moslow My Mother was
John Fishbourne from Dublin Ireland 1864-1917 A Soldier’s tale
by Sylvia Chaplin A Memorial to Fallen Soldiers In a ceremony on the afternoon of Sunday 9th July 1922 General Sir Arthur Currie unveiled the
Another Waddell Family
by Steve Gould(Brampton, ON Canada) From Edinburgh, Scotland to Montreal, Canada On August 15, 1919, after travelling by train from their home in Edinburgh, the