Ministry of
Government and Consumer Services
Ontario Government Record Series RG 11-25
4 volumes of textual records
Series consists of registers and related indexes pertaining to the issuing of warrants and certificates for emigrant passage. Employers wishing to hire farm labourers or domestic servants and those wishing to bring remaining family members to the province, applied to the provincial government for a passage warrant. The warrants would authorize the steamship compnay to provide passage to the individual or family and indicate that the fare would be paid by the sponsor or by the Department of Immigration.
Volumes 1 and 4 are arranged chronologically by the date of application and each entry was assigned an application number. Volumes 2 and 3 act as indexes, and provide access by the name of the applicant and of the sponsored emigrants. The application number shown in the index corresponds to that found in the registers.
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Ontario. Dept. of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works Ontario. Dept. of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works. Immigration Branch Ontario. Dept. of ImmigrationThese records were transferred to the Archives of Ontario some time prior to 1961. No information is available relating to the custody of the records or the means by which they were transferred to the Archives of Ontario.
Please note that microfilmed records are identified by their former reference codes.
RG 11 Series L.
These records were created by the following Ontario government agency or agencies. Click on the agency reference code for information about this agency and other records it created.
1872-1874 : |
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Department of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works (AA70) |
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Immigration Branch (CA612) |
1874-1888 : |
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Department of Immigration (BA172) |
To view records, retrieve self service microfilm MS 847, reel 5.
Scroll up to "Finding Aid" for more information about any available finding aids or listings.
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/microfilm/i_immigration_t.aspx#25