Canadian Immigration Service border entry (Form 30) of Richard Holbrook, Seattle, 14 March 1918 [?]

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Canadian Immigration Service border entry (Form 30) of Richard Holbrook, Seattle, 14 March 1918 [?]
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14 Mar 1918 [?]
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Library and Archives Canada, Border Entries; image posted to the Ancestry tree as "r holbrook border crossing mar 1919"
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LAC, Border Entries (the poster's caption: Canada Border Crossing Form 30, train from Seattle to Victoria, destination Ft McMurray)
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http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/mass-digitized-archives/border-entry/Pages/item.aspx?EntryName=Hoe%2c+Emma+-+Housman%2c+Zilpha&PageId=4674702
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Found on Ancestry, 7 Oct 2026. Handwritten; the year is uncertain.

  • Port: Seattle, Wash. Date: "Mar 14th 19[..]" (the year is cut off); the stamp of the Dominion Immigration Agency, Seattle, reads "MAR 14 1918" [last figure uncertain].
  • Name: Richard Holbrook (written again at the top of the card). Age 46 [?]; male; married. Occupation: mariner. Object in coming to Canada: "to make a home."
  • Birthplace: Island County, Wash. Citizenship: U.S.; white.
  • Last permanent address: 560 Mercer St., Seattle, Wash. Never lived in Canada.
  • Money: $270. Destined to: Fort McMurray, Alta. Health: good.
  • Railroad ticket issued Mar 13, no. 19529 [?], Seattle, Wash., to Edmonton; by the Pr[incess] Victoria. Action taken: admitted.
  • On the other side: height 6 ft 1 in; complexion fair; eyes blue; hair grey; "crooked finger on left hand"; signed "Richard Holbrook."

Born in Sept 1872, he was 45 in March 1918 and 46 in March 1919, so the age fits 1919 better than the stamp. Why a Puget Sound steamboat master went to Fort McMurray, on the Athabasca River in northern Alberta, is not known.

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  2. title: "Canadian Immigration Service border entry (Form 30) of Richard Holbrook, Seattle, 14 March 1918 [?]"
  3. type: other
  4. date: 14 Mar 1918 [?]
  5. repository: "Library and Archives Canada, Border Entries; image posted to the Ancestry tree as \"r holbrook border crossing mar 1919\""
  6. reference: "LAC, Border Entries (the poster's caption: Canada Border Crossing Form 30, train from Seattle to Victoria, destination Ft McMurray)"
  7. url: "http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/mass-digitized-archives/border-entry/Pages/item.aspx?EntryName=Hoe%2c+Emma+-+Housman%2c+Zilpha&PageId=4674702"
  8. seen: image
  9. access: public
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  12. Found on Ancestry, 7 Oct 2026. Handwritten; the year is uncertain.
  14. - **Port:** Seattle, Wash. **Date:** "Mar 14th 19[..]" (the year is cut off); the stamp of the
  15. Dominion Immigration Agency, Seattle, reads "MAR 14 1918" [last figure uncertain].
  16. - **Name:** Richard Holbrook (written again at the top of the card). **Age** 46 [?]; male;
  17. married. **Occupation:** mariner. **Object in coming to Canada:** "to make a home."
  18. - **Birthplace:** Island County, Wash. **Citizenship:** U.S.; white.
  19. - **Last permanent address:** 560 Mercer St., Seattle, Wash. Never lived in Canada.
  20. - **Money:** $270. **Destined to:** Fort McMurray, Alta. **Health:** good.
  21. - **Railroad ticket** issued Mar 13, no. 19529 [?], Seattle, Wash., to Edmonton; by the
  22. *Pr[incess] Victoria*. **Action taken:** admitted.
  23. - On the other side: height 6 ft 1 in; complexion fair; eyes blue; hair grey; "crooked finger on
  24. left hand"; signed "Richard Holbrook."
  26. Born in Sept 1872, he was 45 in March 1918 and 46 in March 1919, so the age fits 1919 better
  27. than the stamp. Why a Puget Sound steamboat master went to Fort McMurray, on the Athabasca River
  28. in northern Alberta, is not known.

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Richard Holbrook's entry into Canada at Seattle, March 1918 [?]Richard Holbrook's entry into Canada at Seattle, March 1918 [?]

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