I stumbled across a very good website this morning, and among other things, there was a transcription of the shipping news from the old Quebec Mercury newspaper on the day Bartholomew Pearce arrived.
Monday, May 22, 1871
Arrived, May 22: S S Nestorian, Aird, Liverpool, May 11, Allans, Rae & co., mails, 855 pas and gen cargo for Quebec and Montreal:
Mail Steamship Arrived. –The S.S. Nestorian, Capt. Aird, from Liverpool, May 11, arrived in port at half-past three o’clock this afternoon, with the mails, 47 cabin, 808 steerage passengers and a general cargo for Quebec and Montreal.
And below is the text of an 1880 advertisement for the Allan Line, which was the steamship company that brought the most immigrants to North America in the last decades of the 19th century. It gives a lot of information on the procedures and conditions of the passage, keeping in mind that this was 9 years after Bartholomew traveled and things might not have been exactly the same.
GOVERNMENT ASSISTED PASSAGES
AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS TO QUEBEC, AT œ5. FEMALE DOMESTIC SERVANTS AT œ4.
ALL APPLICATIONS FOR SUCH PASSAGES ARE TO BE MADE UPON SPECIAL FORMS, WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE UNDERSIGNED, OR ANY OF THEIR AGENTS
Intermediate or Steerage Passages can be engaged by payment of a Deposit of One or Two Pounds on each berth, with Name and Age of each passenger. Post-office Orders to be made payable to the undersigned, Steerage Passengers are provided with comfortable sleeping compartments, and they are recommended to hire the Outfit supplied by the "Allan" Steam-ship Company, which consists of Woods' Patent Life-Preserving Pillows, Mattress, Pannikin to hold 1.5 pint, Plate, Knife, Nickel-plated Fork, and Nickel-plated Spoon. The Charge for the use of these articles for the Voyage is 6s. per Adult, and 3s per Child between the Ages of Two and Eight Years; leaving Passengers to provide bed-covering only, a rug or blanket being sufficient.
Intermediate and Steerage Passengers are allowed ten cubic feet of Luggage free for each adult; for all over that quantity a charge of 1s. for each cubic foot will be made. Packages of baggage must be distinctly addressed before being shipped.
BAGGAGE TAKEN FROM THE OCEAN STEAM-SHIPS TO THE RAILWAY CARS FREE OF EXPENSE.
Intermediate and Steerage Passengers embarking at Liverpool must be at the Office of the Agents, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, JAMES STREET, not later than Eight o'clock in the Evening of the day before the advertised date of sailing, by which time the balance of the Passage-money must be paid.
Passengers embarking at Londonderry will have to report themselves at the office of ALLAN BROTHERS & CO., Foyle Street, Londonderry; and Passengers embarking at Queenstown will have to report themselves at the Office of JAMES SCOTT & CO., the evening before sailing date, any time up to Eight or Nine o'Clock. The Steamers being under Mail contract, sail punctually on their appointed dates.
All Passengers will have strictly to conform to the rules laid down by the Company. Passengers' Boxes (if required on the Voyage) should not exceed fifteen inches in height.
AN EXPERIENCED SURGEON IS ATTACHED TO EACH STEAMER.
Intermediate and Steerage Stewardesses are provided by the Company, to attend to the wants of Female Passengers and Children. Through Tickets issued to all Inland Towns in Canada and the States. For further particulars apply to:
JOHN WARD, Stationmaster, Bandoran.
Liverpool, February, 1880.
Report credit: http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/inthenews.html#1871
Image credit: http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20Ships%20Misc/Miscellaneous/slides/
Advertisemnt credit: http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/exhibitions_talks_and_events/19th_century_emigration_to_the_north_america_online/at_the_port/advertisements.htm
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