Canadian Immigration Service border entry (Form 30) of Richard Holbrook, Seattle, 14 March 1918 [?]
Record
- Date
- 14 Mar 1918 [?]
- Held by
- Library and Archives Canada, Border Entries; image posted to the Ancestry tree as "r holbrook border crossing mar 1919"
- Reference
- LAC, Border Entries (the poster's caption: Canada Border Crossing Form 30, train from Seattle to Victoria, destination Ft McMurray)
- Seen as
- originalimagetranscriptabstractindex
What it says
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.