Quebec Passenger Lists: 1874-1880

with Names Compared to the Hamburg Passenger Lists
and Families Cross Referenced to Church Registers

Annotations by Cathy Friesen Barkman

Table of Contents

  1. Glossary
  2. Foreward
  3. Complete file of all 1874-80 Quebec passengers (316 K)
  4. Ships Landing in Quebec by date of docking 1
    • 1874
    • 1875
      • Prussian No. 21 on June 18, with 138 Mennonites (Kleine Gemeinde) under the leadership of Peter Toews.
      • Moravian No. 25 on July 1, with 667 Mennonites (Bergthal and Chortitza) under the leadership of Gerhard Wiebe.
      • Sarmatian No. 28 on July 6, with 509 Mennonites (Chortitza and Bergthal) under the leadership of Abram Enss and Johann Klippenstein.
      • Peruvian No. 30 on July 13, with 555 Mennonites (Chortitza and Bergthal) under the leadership of Johann Mueller, Johann Wiebe, Johann Gerbrand and Johann Enns.
      • Canadian No. 32 on July 19, with 561 Mennonites (Chortitza) under the leadership of Peter Friesen, David Nickel and Cornelius Giesbrecht.
      • Quebec No. 34 on July 20, with 463 Mennonites (Chortitza and Bergthal) under the leadership of Isaac Mueller, C. Epp and J. Loeppky.
      • Manitoban No. 36 on July 27, with 348 Mennonites (Bergthal, Chortitza and Molotschna) under the leadership of J. Abrahams, Daniel Blatz and P. Abrahams.
      • Sardinian No. 61 on October 5, with 20 Mennonites (Chortitza).
    • 1876
      • Sardinian No. 20 on June 19, with 224 Mennonites (Chortitza) under the leadership of Johann Buhler and Jacob Wiens.
      • Quebec No. 22 on June 23, with 225 Mennonites (Fuerstenland) under the leadership of David Giesbrecht and Franz Froese.
      • Mississippi No. 25 on June 26, with 240 Mennonites (Chortitza) under the leadership of Abraham Buhler.
      • Moravian No. 30 on July 10, with 64 Mennonites (Chortitza) under the leadership of Isaac Wiens.
      • Dominion No. 34 on July 18, with 79 Mennonites (Chortitza) under the leadership of Abraham Buhler.
      • Sardinian No. 39 on July 30, with 509 Mennonites (mostly Bergthal and a few Molotschna) under the leadership of Jacob Peters and Peter Klippenstein.
      • Moravian No. 48 on August 20, with 4 Mennonites, a Gerbrand family (Bergthal).
      • Circassian No. 76 on October 29, with 7 Mennonites, the Solomon Schmidt family.
    • 1877
      • Sarmatian No. 24 on June 30, with 184 Mennonites (Chortitza) under the leadership of Johann Bergman and Wilhelm Rempel.
    • 1878
      • Peruvian No. 27 on June 30, with 271 Mennonites (Chortitza and one Bergthal family) under the leadership of Wilhelm Rempel.
      • Sardinian No. 30 on July 6, with 5 Mennonites, a Wiens family (Chortitza).
      • Borussia No. 39 on July 25, with 47 Mennonites (Molotschna) under the leadership of David Schellenberg.
    • 1879
      • Polynesian No. 30 on July 6, with 208 Mennonites (Chortitza) under the leadership of David Peters and Bernhard Rempel.
    • 1877
      • Sarmatian No. 62 on July 31, with 69 Mennonites (Chortitza) under the leadership of Peter Wiebe.
  5. Minor Corrections/Adjustments/Errata provided by Darren Enns, 2000 December

1 We are indebted to Adolf Ens and Rita Penner, Mennonite Quarterly Review, October 1974, page 528, Table I. for the basic information on this chart. We have added one item and made a few additions concerning the origin of passengers.

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Edited by John Dyck
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