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Immigration to Canada
Settlement Areas
Research Resources
Start the search for your Volga German immigrant ancestors with the Library and National Archives Canada website. Their Canadian Genealogy Centre has ship passenger lists from 1865 to 1935 for east coast ports. You can also send for the booklet - Tracing Your Ancestors in Canada.
Antwerp (Belgium), Bremen (Germany), and Libau (part of the Russian empire from 1795 to 1918 and now known as Liepaja, Latvia) are some of the ports that your ancestors may have sailed from.
Another useful resources is The Ships List which contains immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.
The backcover of a 1909 Friedensbote magazine (published in Beideck) showing an advertisement for steamship service to the USA and Canada. The Friedensbote: Monatsblatt für das Christliche Haus, was a monthly magazine published in the colony of Beideck from 1884 to 1915.