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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Lee-Whiting, Brenda B. |
| Title, Analytic | Why So Many German Immigrants Embarked at Liverpool |
| Journal Title | Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook |
| Date of Publication | 1986 |
| Volume ID | IX |
| Location in Work | p. 71-79 |
| Abstract | A surprising number of German immigrants to Canada in the late 19th century boarded at Liverpool, England. Shipping service between Hamburg and Quebec ended in 1871, and sea travel from Hamburg to New York continued. Such a trip, made partly by sea and then by land and water, was laborious for a couple encumbered by children and luggage. It was better to undertake the journey to a new country overseas by the quickest method possible, travelling most of the way by water. The company that dominated the shipping lanes between Great Britain and North America during the last three decades of the 19th century, and well into the 20th, was the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company (later known as the Allan Line), which had its principal office in Liverpool. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Atlantic crossing/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ Immigrants, German/ Ships |