Emigration

Embarkation lists

Passenger lists for ships to Canterbury which carried assisted immigrants organised by the Canterbury Provincial Government from 1856-1870, and the Central Government from 1870-1874.

Ship life

• Canterbury pilgrims
  Sung by the first colonists at the special service held in St Paul’s Cathedral, London, prior to embarking for Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, A.D. 1850.
• Passengers’ contract ticket issued to Alfred and Eliza Rump to sail on the Merope, 1870
• Regulations to be observed on board emigrant ships of the Provincial government of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Diaries

• Shipboard diary 1864, Edinburgh to Wellington
• Brief diary written on board the Tintern Abbey en route from Gravesend to Christchurch, December 1874 - May 1875
• Journal of the ship Canterbury, 1851 by Edward Eade