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Kathryn:
I am 99% certain that your people landed at Quebec in 1881 and then settled in Sherbrooke, QU. The sailing schedules in the summer season were from Liverpool, England to Quebec, and during the winter the ships disembarked passengers at Portland, Maine (the St. Lawrence River would have been frozen solid). Later many ships sailed from Queenstown (near Cork, Ireland) and landed at Halifax, NS.
Go to GOOGLE and enter a phrase like "ship records in Canada" or perhaps "immigration to Canada" and many pages of info will become available. Thr real problem trying to find shipping records and passenger manifestos is that names of ships were not always well recorded, and many passengers were never recorded by name but rather by gender, age, port of departure, etc. Even if passengers were sponsored and had a specific address to go to in Canada upon their arrival, this information was not always recorded for posterity. Many people were classed as "assisted persons", meaning that church or other groups had helped with the cost of their passage or to accomodate them on arrival, so the group name may be found in records in Canada or in records at the port of departure, but not the names of the passengers themselves.
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