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Re: [TSL] diverted from Ellis Island
Marj Kohli <marj@uwaterloo.ca> on 08/07/2010

Jim

The London Times lists the Canada as sailing Feb 10 from Liverpool, 
to Halifax and then Portland, Maine. She is reported sailing on Feb 
10, in the Times of Feb 11.

I checked the NY Times and Ellis Island was in the news because of 
Typhus cases and "vermin infested" immigrants but there is no mention 
of diverting ships.

Regards..

Marj

At 10:05 PM 8/5/2010, JT wrote:
>A friend related a story passed on to her from her mother. When her 
>mother came to the United States on the Canada in February 1921, she 
>was supposed to land in New York on Ellis island. However, the 
>passengers were discharged in Philadelphia because there was an eye 
>disease epidemic on Ellis Island. According to Morton Allen, 45 
>passengers landed in New York, and 1,710 passengers landed in Philadelphia.
>I have never heard of a ship being diverted to another port because 
>of a health condition on Ellis Island.  I feel the Canada had always 
>been scheduled to land in Philadelphia. Could this person's mother's 
>story be true?  Jim
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