Information on the ship that brought my Polish grandfather, Leon Sawicki, from the “old Country” in the Ukraine to Dauphin Manitoba Canada.
Information on the ship that brought my Polish grandfather, Leon Sawicki, from the “old Country” in the Ukraine to Dauphin Manitoba Canada.
Link to Leon Sawicki main page
Link to Joseph Sawicki, Leon’s father.
Link to Jesmer Family History page.
The S.S. Prussia entering St John’s Newfoundland.
“The three ships were the were the S.S. Scotia docked in Halifax 30 April 1897 with thirty-five single men or families bound for Dauphin. The S.S. Arcadia, docked in Quebec City 2 May 1897 with thirty-five single men or families bound for Dauphin. And the S.S. Prussia, docked in Halifax 22 May 1897 with fifty-nine single men or families bound for Dauphin.”
(Vladimir J. Kaye, Dictionary of Ukrainian Canadian Biography: Pioneer Settlers of Manitoba 1891-1900. Toronto. Ukrainian research foundation; 1978. 2-118)
From, a chapter in a book called, “A Nation of Immigrants” concerning the settling of Dauphin Manitoba.
Reel # Ship Name Departure Arrival
C-4518 PRUSSIA Hamburg, Germany 1897-05-11 Halifax, N.S. 1897-05-22
New York, NY
(HAN) Hansa Line [Hamburg-America Line] List Number: 80
I don’t see (in the Morton Allan Directory) the New York, NY arrival
listed, so chances are your folks arrived at Halifax, especially as they
were Canada bound. They would take the train from Halifax.
The passenger manifest is on Microfilm at the National Archives of Canada
[NAC], in Ottawa. The Ships are placed on the reel, in order of arrival.
You can borrow this reel on an Inter Library Loan [ILL]. You can find the
details for this procedure at this NAC Genealogy Research URL
http://www.archives.ca/02/020202_e.html
You are also able to ILL from Ottawa, to libraries in the US, and outside
North America. These microfilms contain arrivals from ALL ports, they are
not indexed. The LDS do also have copies of this microfilm, their number …..
LDS number 0889437 ~ 1897 ~ Port of Halifax
I know it is a bit of a hike from Drayton Valley, but the Provincial
Archives of Alberta in Edmonton also should have copies of microfilm number
C-4518 but I would phone first if I was you. The National Archives of
Canada website says that Edmonton has the film.
Good Luck,
Sue
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TheShipsList/2001-08/0998661489
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