Comments on: Boston’s Immigrant Experience in 1900 – Anticipation & Hope Amidst Confusion & Exploitation http://forgottennewengland.com/2011/12/28/bostons-immigrant-experience-in-1900-anticipation-hope-amidst-confusion-exploitation/ Exploring New England As It Was Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Forgotten New England http://forgottennewengland.com/2011/12/28/bostons-immigrant-experience-in-1900-anticipation-hope-amidst-confusion-exploitation/#comment-413 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:40:33 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=1213#comment-413 I took a quick look at Ancestry.com, but couldn’t find anything matching those details. If you haven’t already looked, ancestry.com (pay site) and the Immigrant Ship Transcribers’ Guild (free site) are great resources for locating immigration records. With an arrival as recent as 1920, I’d think that the record still exists and can be found.

]]> By: Dorothy Payne http://forgottennewengland.com/2011/12/28/bostons-immigrant-experience-in-1900-anticipation-hope-amidst-confusion-exploitation/#comment-404 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:39:35 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=1213#comment-404 Looking for Leslie & John McKenna, traveled on the Canopic in Aug. 1920, but I believe the port was Quebec, Canada. Can anyone be of help. Many kind thanks. Thank you as well for the photo of the SS Canopic.
Dorothy

]]> By: Barbara Vanderveen http://forgottennewengland.com/2011/12/28/bostons-immigrant-experience-in-1900-anticipation-hope-amidst-confusion-exploitation/#comment-293 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:35:11 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=1213#comment-293 Yes. His port of departure was Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal. He emigrated from Sao Jorge.

]]> By: Forgotten New England http://forgottennewengland.com/2011/12/28/bostons-immigrant-experience-in-1900-anticipation-hope-amidst-confusion-exploitation/#comment-291 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:50:05 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=1213#comment-291 Barbara – thanks for the comment. That’s great to hear that your grandfather was actually on this ship on that exact day. Was he arriving from the Azores?

]]> By: Barbara Vanderveen http://forgottennewengland.com/2011/12/28/bostons-immigrant-experience-in-1900-anticipation-hope-amidst-confusion-exploitation/#comment-290 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:25:54 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=1213#comment-290 Thank you so much for posting this picture of the Canopic. My grandfather, Antonio Texeira Avila, was on this ship and arrived in Boston on October 17, 1920!

]]> By: Karen K http://forgottennewengland.com/2011/12/28/bostons-immigrant-experience-in-1900-anticipation-hope-amidst-confusion-exploitation/#comment-233 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:20:57 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=1213#comment-233 Great stuff, Ryan, as always.

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of seeing a photo of the ship that you know brought your grandparents or great-grandparents over. Or seeing their names on the wall at Ellis Island (my brother recently went on a trip to New York and found our grandfather’s name– texted me a photo of it). I think my aunt had it inscribed.

Upon arriving at Ellis Island, my grandfather lived with his sister and her family in Chelsea, MA and then ended up in Boston a few years later, where he opened his own deli. I suppose that wasn’t too far compared to some of the other accounts you’ve described here!

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