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SHIP BUILDERS and MARINERS
NB Provincial Archives:
Port Returns [including Passenger Lists], 1816-1838
Ship Builders and Mariners in the 1861 Census
New Brunswick Lost at Sea
Searchable Database of Men Lost at Sea-Sailors Name, Boat Name, Date and any additional information if known
Visit Canada's National Archives
search through the Online Immigration Records 1925-1935
Be sure to check this site- Pier 21  http://www.pier21.ca/ 
Welcome to Lloyds Register
Visit Gilbert Provost's website and search for registration details
of a vessel such as the rigging, the tonnage,dimensions, propulsion, owners and her Master. 
( transcribed from Lloyds Register 1764-2001)
Welcome to the Ship Information Database
Contains information about ships that were registered in Canadian ports or sailed in Canadian waters. 
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY MARITIME HISTORY ARCHIVES
 Memorial University of Newfoundland -online research
To order Ships and Seafarers of Atlantic Canada CD - see below
Visit  The Ships List Home Page
Search The Ships List  Searchable ARCHIVES
See Town of ShediacWebsite-History   Shipbuilding
Visit the new-Brunswick.net website to read about ship Building and the Marco Polo
Henry O'Leary- ship builder
 The Miramichi River - "Great Canadian Rivers"

PASSENGER LISTS

Be sure to Visit the: Canadian Archives - IMMIGRATION RECORDS
Visit  The PEI Island Register
for Extensive Information about Ships and Ship Lists
Check Alan Tupmans website for hisship passenger list database
"Important Ports in New Brunswick"
Excellent information about Shipping Ports in New Brunswick from the webpages of Zella Layden Irish Genealogy in Canada
Check this : Distant Cousin Ships Lists 
( if your ancestor may have gone to the US before coming to Canada)
You must visit  MARJ'S HOMEPAGE and check out the 
 genealogy link
Searching for a List?? Be sure to Check: 
 Sheila's Links to Passenger Lists on the Net
Visit the McKane website
Ireland to New Brunswick- Zephyr Passenger List
Genseek Genealogy Site
hosted by Jenny Williams Fawcett - many links
 The Olive Tree
 Free Ships' Passenger lists, family surnames and more.
Desmond Website for passenger Lists to New Brunswick -specific to Desmond surname
 Immigrants to Canada in Nineteenth Century
 A link to Marj's homepage to a large collection of links to info about the ships that sailed to Canadian ports, as well as to other countries. 
 Tony Cimorelli's Searchable Database
(Contains the complete Morton Allan Directory of Ship Arrivals)
Did you ancestor go to Nova Scotia first? Check here:
Passenger Lists to Pictou NS
Visit: The Maritime History Virtual Archives
Info about the Marco Polo
  Mayflower Web Page
 This page has passenger lists, some genealogies of Mayflower passengers, info on societies, and more. 
 Mayflower and Early Ancestors

MAILING LISTS

The Ships List is a mailing list to help those seeking information on which vessel brought their ancestors to their new home. This is an international list. To subscribe, send a message to TheShipsList-L-request@rootsweb.com with the one word SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. 
If you are researching a Mariner then you may want to join this list. To subscribe, send a message to mariners-L-request@rootsweb.com with the one word SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. 

BOOKS FOR SALE

GREW, Milton G
Richibucto: the era of "tall ships": ships of the Richibucto River, 1992, 
Manny, L.: Shipbuilding on the Miramichi.
Manny, L.: Ships of Kent County, New Brunswick. 1949.
Petchey, Helen M
                   The Brothers Weldon 1995.  Saddle stitched
                   book, 16pp, illus. Dorchester, New Brunswick's
                   Weldon family and the Weldon brothers who built
                   ships at Dorchester and Richibucto respectively
                   in the 19th century.
Thompson, M.J.: Jardine Shipbuilding of Kent Co. N.B. 1963.
Wallace, F.W.: Record of Canadian Shipping. 1929
The Ships and Seafarers of Atlantic Canada CD is available for researchers. It can be ordered from: 
The Secretary
Maritime History Archive
Memorial University
Newfoundland
A1C 5S7. 
(The purchase price is $49.95)
For more interesting details, visit Memorial University Maritime History Archive's web site

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