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The following indices contain transcriptions of Molokan ship passenger lists. The original ship passenger lists, available online at Library and Archives Canada, contain the following information for each Molokan immigrant: date of embarkation, name, age, gender, whether a head of a household on board, number of persons in the family, profession, calling or occupation, nation or country of birth, place of ultimate destination and name of personal contact there. They disembarked at the ports of Quebec City, Quebec and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Index - Ship Passenger Lists – Border Crossing Records Ship Passenger Listsīetween 19, over one hundred and sixty Molokans took coastal ships from Russia to the Western European ports of Liverpool, England and Antwerp, Belgium, where they boarded transatlantic ships bound for Canada. The following is an index of known Canadian ship passenger records and border crossing records containing Molokan immigrants. However, recent archival discoveries confirm that approximately two hundred Molokan immigrants – over five per-cent of all Molokans who joined the migration – arrived through east Canadian ports between 19, then journeyed overland by rail through Canada before turning stateside on the final leg of their journey to their destination in Los Angeles, California. The majority of the Russian sectarian immigrants arrived through the main American immigration ports of Ellis Island, New York and Galveston, Texas. Between 19, over 3,500 Molokans emigrated from the Caucasus region of Russia to the United States.