Online Canadian Immigration Records

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Library and Archives Canada (LAC) holds the Canadian immigration records for the years 1865 to 1935. The passenger lists are the sole surviving official records of the arrival of the majority of people accepted as immigrants in Canada.

The passenger list is a list of immigrants arriving at an official port of entry on a particular ship on a given date. Generally speaking, each manifest gives:

the name of the ship
its port(s) and date(s) of departure
its port(s) and date(s) of arrival in Canada
the name, age, sex, profession or occupation, nationality and destination of each passenger aboard

Online Help - Passenger Lists, 1865-1922 - Library and Archives Canada
Passenger Lists, 1865-1922

Immigration Records (1925-1935) - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada
A series of old nominal indexes exist for the 1925 to 1935 records. In cooperation with the National Archives of Canada, the Pier 21 Society in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has input the information from the passenger list indexes into this database.

Introduction - Montreal Emigrant Society Passage Book (1832) - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada
Montreal Emigrant Society Passage Book (1832)
This research tool provides access to 1,945 references to people who received aid from the Montreal Emigrant Society between May 12 and November 5, 1832.


Introduction - Port of New Westminster Register of Chinese Immigration (1887-1908) - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada
The research tool provides access to 470 references to Chinese immigrants who arrived at the port of New Westminster between 1887 and 1908.


Immigrants at Grosse-Île - Canadian Genealogy Centre - Library and Archives Canada
Immigrants at Grosse-Île
This database includes information on 33,026 immigrants whose names appear in surviving records of the Grosse-Île Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937


Home Children (1869-1930) - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada
Home Children (1869-1930)
Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement.