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Jonathan
New on board
USA
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 Posted - 23/11/2007 : 23:43:12
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Except for a brief reference on the web, and reference to in a journal on this web site, I have not found much on the specifics of getting from Quebec to places in the midwest, such as Chicago.
I would like to know the following:
1. What passenger ports on the southeastern shore of Lake Huron (southwest Ontario) would immigrants have departed from to get to Chicago between 1875 and 1890? I have found one reference that indicated immigrants may have taken a train (line?) from Toronto to Collingwood, and then taken a passenger steamer up Lake Huron and down Lake Michigan to Chicago. No specifics are given. Were there other ports in southwest Ontario?
A journal on this web site talks about taking a train from Toronto to Sarnia and catching a passenger steamship there.
2, What passenger ships departed from southern Lake Huron ports (1875-1890) and how long did it take, and how much did it cost?
3. Would immigrants have taken the Chicago, Grand Trunk RR from Toronto all the way to Chicago, instead of taking a Great Lakes steamer, or was that more expensive?
4. Are there some routes other than those I mentioned?
5. Are there any Great Lakes Ship passenger records that still exist? I heard that it is not likely.
Thanks.
Jon |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 23/11/2007 : 23:51:04
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Hi,
the most likely means of travel from Quebec to Chicago between 1875 and 1890 was by train.
Transportation by rail from Quebec to Chicago costed about ten American dollars in 1869.
Read this article; Concerning Emigration?, posted in the Norwegian "Billed-Magazin", spring 1869.
It's interesting reading, and decribes several routes to the west, and how to cross Lake Michigan.
Could the railtrack look something like this?
Train Quebec - Sarnia (673 miles).
Ferry across the St. Clair River at Sarnia to Port Huron
Train Port Huron - Chicago (347 miles).
Total distance: 1,020 miles.
Those emigrants who planned to go by way of Milwaukee, the most convenient was to change train in Detroit, and go to Grand Haven, MI, a distance of 189 miles.
From there they could go by steamer across Lake Michigan to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a distance of merely 85 miles.
Those who settled in Wisconsin, Minnesota, or northern Iowa usually choosed the Milwaukee route as the most convenient.
Some history from Port Huron
History of The Great Lakes.
Michigan railroad History.
Navigation On Rivers And Lakes; Detroit, Wayne County and Early Michigan.
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Edited by - jwiborg on 24/11/2007 14:50:36 |
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Melinda finnigan
Starting member
USA
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Posted - 30/08/2008 : 05:15:59
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| Hi Johnathan! I know my ancestors came in via ship (the Dameno -possibly a private or tramp ship?) from Norway to Liverpool, England to Canada to the port Sault St. Marie, through Michigan and then west to Seattle, WA...That was in 1885... ~Melinda |
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