u/thatonethatlurks

Does anyone know of a resource in finding Canadian immigration records?

I’m backtracking through my great-grandmother’s life and I’m trying to find her immigration record or records of travel between 1918-1935. Bonus if I can find a marriage certificate too.

I keep searching through the online Canadian archives, but the same 1931 census and 1935 naturalization records keep showing up. Not even her father shows up anywhere despite living with her during that census year.

TL;dr: Trying to find a way to document my great-grandmother’s movements between 1918 and 1935.

I’m trying to get Austrian citizenship via my great-grandmother. She was born in Lemberg, Galizien, Austria-Hungary (now L’viv, Ukraine), just after the turn of the century (1903 or 1906; conflicting information). She immigrated to Canada in the mid-late 1920s (Naturalized in 1935). With the current documentation I have the consulate has said no. However, there is nearly 30 years of documentation I don’t have prior to her immigration (this includes her birth certificate and baptismal records). The consulate seemed unwilling to help in anyway (despite the website saying they have a team of researchers ready to help).

How would one research this to find any documents that could prove that she maintained Austrian citizenship after the break-up of the empire? Or resided in the current borders of Austria until her immigration?

- I know she did not gain Polish or Soviet citizenship in the interim period.

- Her death certificate labeled her place of birth as: City: Lwów, the Ukraine, Country: undetermined.

- I am currently waiting on Canada for her immigration documents to see if that holds anything.

- Her United States immigration papers held no new information.

Update: Found a record of her naturalization in Canada from 1935. Listed country of origin was Austria. May not mean anything though