Immigrants on the Mars, 1818

compiled by Alan Campbell and John Wright

On 28 July, 1818, thirty-five or thirty-six families departed for Canada from Tobermory, Isle of Mull, on the ship Mars. It had previously touched at Crinan (13 July), convenient for families from the parishes of North Knapdale and Kilmichael Glassary.

Some of those families landed in Port Talbot, Ontario on 16 October, 1818. Many settled in neighbouring Aldborough.

The passenger list for that voyage is lost.

mars_immigrants_1818.pdf is our attempt to to reconstruct as full a list as we can of those who sailed on that crossing and who settled in the Aldborough area.

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