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Quebec Mercury, Supplement, October 26, 1821, Vol XVII, No 43, under Port
of Quebec/Arrived.
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Quebec Gazette, No 3158, October 11, 1821.
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Quebec Mercury, November 23, 1821, Vol XVII, No 47.
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Quebec Mercury, Supplement, November 16, 1821, Vol XVII, No 46, and
Quebec Mercury, November 20, 1821, Vol XVII, No 47, p. 371.
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Location ticket No 26 issued 15th October 1827 at Grenville by J.R. King (?),
Capt, (land) agent of Grenville. (pp. 72805 & 72806, RG1, L3L, Volume 148,
Reel-2550, Public Archives of Canada).
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This list was pieced together from two different Quebec City to Montreal
steamship passenger lists which appear
in TheShipsList:
www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1821/1ssep25.htm. Reproduced here by the kind
permission of Sue Swiggum of TheShipsList. This information is taken from the
National Archives of Canada MG 28, III, 57 - Reel M-8272 vol 6.
TheShipsList identifies the first group on the steamship Lady Sherbrooke
as
being survivors of the Earl of Dalhousie. It is not clear how the website arrived
at that conclusion, but since their fares from Quebec City to Montreal were paid
by the Montreal merchants Shuter & Wilkins, this seems like a logical
conclusion. The second group on the steamship Malsham was also identified as
survivors for the same reason.
The number of passengers on the tentative list totals 140, the same number
mentioned in the newspaper articles. It should be noted, however, that the list
shown here does not include any passengers who may have disembarked on
Cape Breton Island, as reported in the Glasgow Herald.
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The Scotch Road Cemetery Association was established in 1975 to restore
and preserve the Scotch Road Cemetery in Grenville Township, Quebec. It is
here that Alexander Murrary, his wife Janet Cameron, daughters Mary and
Catherine, and Mary's husband Donald McPhee are all buried. Several years
ago the Association decided to create a website at www.scotchroadcemetery.com
to
share genealogical and historical information with researchers. As Nancy
Owston's query shows, this objective is proving extremely successful.
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Emily Cameron's observation as a child of only seven years of age is quite
accurate. Although sea weary passengers on early 19th century ships bound for
Quebec City must have rejoiced to see land after four to eight weeks on the
Atlantic, their journey was not yet over once they had reached the mouth of the
St Lawrence. It was about 407 miles from the east end of Anticosti Island to
Quebec City. This distance, combined with currents, channels and prevailing
westerly winds, could take considerable time to cover. The ship that carried the
news of the Earl of Dalhousie to Glasgow left Quebec City on Sept 23 and
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