US point of entry?

[Pat Sprague]

Does anyone have a hint to help me find a port entry into the US for a
family that disembarked in Quebec, Canada in April 1891? Their final
destination was Calumet, Michigan (on the upper peninsula of Michigan).
What would be the mode of transportation (ship or train)? Thank you for
any help in advance.

Pat

[Robert Heiling]

Pat Sprague wrote:

I thought I had more information on that, but here's some saved info I did
find. "My husband's family landed in the port of Quebec Canada and then took
a train to Sault Ste. Marie, MI". It shows one possibility anyhow.

Bob

[Merritt Mullen]

Pat Sprague at pcsp...@worldnet.att.net wrote on 6/15/00 9:06 AM:

> Does anyone have a hint to help me find a port entry into the US for a
> family that disembarked in Quebec, Canada in April 1891? Their final
> destination was Calumet, Michigan (on the upper peninsula of Michigan).
> What would be the mode of transportation (ship or train)? Thank you for
> any help in advance.
>
> Pat

There are probably lots of possibilities, but probably the most direct route
in 1891 would be by train from Quebec to the border at Sault Ste. Marie,
continuing on by train to Calumet. I believe the Canadian Pacific Rail (or
perhaps a predecessor railroad) ran the complete route from Quebec City,
Quebec, to Calumet, Michigan.

Merritt

[Dick]

Pat Sprague wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a hint to help me find a port entry into the US for a
> family that disembarked in Quebec, Canada in April 1891? Their final
> destination was Calumet, Michigan (on the upper peninsula of Michigan).
> What would be the mode of transportation (ship or train)? Thank you for
> any help in advance.
>
> Pat

I read one account of a partial journey where in about 1850 they took a
little steamer from Quebec to Montreal. Then to Kingston, Niagara, and
across the Lake to Toronto and the Northern Railway to Collingwood.

[Harry Dodsworth]

Quebec to Calumet, MI in April 1891. (April was early for a Quebec
arrival; must have been one of the first ships of the year)

Canadian Pacific via Sault Ste. Marie sounds reasonable, or the
Grand Trunk crossing into the U.S. from Sarnia to Port Huron, MI.
Other routes are possible.

In the 1850s, the rail and transport network was still being built
and some very strange routings to us (unless you use airlines :-)
were advertised. The first rail connection from Ottawa to Montreal
(1854) included two crossings of the St. Lawrence River and a
train across Northern New York!
But by 1891, routes had become standardized.

--
Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af...@freenet.carleton.ca
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[auntiedo]

There are several routes they could have taken; they would have gone by
train to Toronto, changed trains and gone from there to either Detroit (a
well travelled route) or to Sarnia, ON and crossed at Port Huron. Or from
Quebec they may have crossed into New York state and travelled by train to
Calumet.

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