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Journal kept by B. B. Cannon, Conductor of a party of Emigrating Cherokee Indians, put in his charge at the Cherokee Agency East, by Gen. N. Smith, Superintendent of Cherokee Removals, on the 13th day of October, 1837.

The National Archives of Canada (NAC) holds immigration records from 1865 to 1935.

For those seeking their New York roots, this database is invaluable. Newtown, later known as Elmhurst, is now a part of the Borough of Queens in the city of New York. Communicants 1741, Baptisms 1736-1845, and Marriages 1835-1846 are complete and online.

After the War of 1812, the black community in Ontario grew with the steady arrival of runaway slaves from the southern United States. Over the next few years many slaves found freedom by following the Underground Railroad to Ontario.