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Newspaper notice from the Emigranten, 1861. The brig Dronning Victoria departed Bergen on May 2, and arrived at Quebec June 5, 1861. She was mastered by Capt. Kahrs. According to a newspaper notice she was carrying 304 passengers. The ship was towed from Quebec to Montreal by a steamer. The passengers proceeded from Montreal to Chicago by steamship and train. They were escorted by a Norwegian interpreter by the name of Henningsen. The emigrants were all by good health, but two small children had died during the Atlantic crossing. There had also been one birth while they were on the ocean, and another on the steamer when they were near Hamilton in Canada. The voyage across the Atlantic had a cost of 11 speciedaler each person, and from Montreal to Madison another 13 dollars, making a total traveling fee of about 27 dollars. Because the National Archives of Canada [NAC] did not start the archiving of passenger lists before 1865, and the Norwegian emigration records did not start before 1867, there is no surviving passenger list for this voyage in any of those archives. Timeline to records. |
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Chronological History
| Year |
Event |
| 1861 |
Captain J. Kahrs. Departed Bergen Apr. 22. Arrived Montreal June 5. |
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