Ship passenger list arriving into ports of Victoria and Vancouver

Ship passenger list arriving into ports of Victoria and Vancouver

British Columbia
Victoria
Vancouver
travel
migration
transportation
pacific.

Documents recording the arriving steamships and passengers into the ports of Victoria and Vancouver in January 1925. Recorded for the purposes of controlling the arrival of potential migrants to Canada. The documents offer significant detail on both the voyage of the ship and its passengers. The document also includes any founded relationships between those aboard the ship and Canadians, presenting already established intercontinental travel and communications. As the shipbuilding industry advanced, it became easier and cheaper for Europeans and Asians to immigrate to British Columbia. Steamship was the primary method as this time preceded any commercial transatlantic or transpacific air-travel. This source presents the themes of industry and technology and their influence on shaping the development of British Columbia physically and demographically. The sheer number of people arriving on the ships into BC also highlights the pace of migration in the province, both in and out. Also, the specific details recorded by the Canadian Immigration Service highlights the desire to regulate migration of foreign peoples in and out of the province.

Canadian Immigration Service, Government of Canada

Library and Archives Canada

collectionscanada.gc.ca

1925

Sebastian Jones

Library and Archives Canada
Microform Digitization
Passenger Lists: Vancouver and Victoria (1925-1935)
Microfilm number: t-14881
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=19&q3=1002&sqn=0&tt=653&PHPSESSID=pgu74hjaupu9qmj7ao9j21gtb3

English

Textual - typed letter with handwritten additions

20th century British Columbia