Immigration of Mennonites to Canada

Between the following websites, the immigration picture for Mennonites coming to Canada is getting more and more complete.

Passenger Lists - 1865-1922 (Library & Archives Canada)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/passenger/index-e.html

• not searchable by name
• full images are online
• no fees to view

Passenger Lists/Immigration Records - 1925-1935 (Library & Archives Canada)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/immigration-1925/index-e.html

• searchable by name, year, etc.
• visitors are directed to use details in index to consult images on microfilms in major Canadian libraries
• no fees to view

Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonizations (1923-1930) (Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta)
http://www.mennonitehistory.org/projects/cmboc/index.html

• searchable by household head's name
• visitors are directed to use details index to request digital copies of records for a $10/record fee
• personalized service
• index to be expanded in the next few months to include other household members and birth years of immigrants
• we can already conduct broader and finer searches for household members and links between records
• index and records also available at Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg

Passenger Lists departing from United Kingdom (1890-1939) FindMyPast (commercial site)
http://www.findmypast.com/passengerListPersonSearchStart.action?redef=0

• searchable by name, year, etc.
• - visitors can get a shortlist of hits that includes full name, age, gender, year of departure, destination country/port for free
• visitors are directed to two links for each: one to transcript and one to image
• each type of link has a different fee
• indexing work continues and current plans are to complete up to 1960 before long; they're making good progress

In kinship, Judii for Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta