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Passenger List of SS Lake Manitoba
Liverpool, UK to Saint John, NB, March 31 to April 10, 1903

Adams to Bayley   Beach to Brodie   Brook to Byworth   Caley to Clay   Clayton to Curtis
Daglish to Earwaker   Eastwood to Ferguson   Field to Gibbons   Gibbs to Hardwick   Hardy to Hilder
Hill to Hunt   Hunter to Jordan    Kavanagh to Lester   Little to Mare   Marfleet to Messum

Metherell to Nursall   Ockenden to Philpots   Pick to Ready   Rebitt to Ryder   Sagon to Smedler
Smith to Steward   Still to Symons   Taylor to Thwaite   Tibbs to Vine   Waddell to Whetten

Whitbread to Witts   Wood to Wright

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The lists are presented for general information purposes only.  Foster Learning Inc. does not warrant the accuracy of this information.  Our record is based on lists published in the July 17, 1963 edition of the Lloydminster Times.  We do not know if they were derived from the actual Purser's List or some copy of it.  Purser's Lists were compiled primarily to insure all passengers on board had paid, and as a means of accounting for passengers in the event of sinking, etc. 

The names on the Lloydminster Times list were generally grouped by families, with husband first, wife and then children in descending order of age.  Ditto marks were used to represent the family name except for the husband.  While this makes it easier to recognize families, we have supplied family names for all passengers to make it easier to document and search for a particular person.  Also, in a few cases, children's ages were given in fractions (eg. 3 1/2).  We have dropped these fractions.  Children under 1 had their age represented by a dash.  We have inserted the word "Infant" in that case, meaning under age 1.

Another issue is what constitutes a "Barr Colonist"?  It has become somewhat customary to think of the SS Lake Manitoba as something like the Mayflower, the only transport of  "real Barr Colonists".  Barr Colonists came in spring 1903 on a total of three ships.  The well known Rendell family, for example, certainly Barr Colonists, came on the Montrose.  They left England later, but arrived in Saskatoon while many of the SS Lake Manitoba party were still there squabbling and getting up their courage to continue on.  William Rendell moved quickly, bought a team and wagon for almost $1000 and came straight to what would become Lloydminster.  His homestead was the quarter section to the south west of the present intersection of Highways 16 & 17  (NE 1/4, Section 36, Township 49, Range 1, West of the Fourth Meridian).  The farm yard was on the site of the present Rendell Centre Shopping Mall.

As well, many people came later, but still in response to the ideas and efforts of Isaac Barr and the original group.  Hundreds came in 1904 and in lesser numbers in 1905 and 1906.  As late as the 1970's, people from Britain still arrived because of invitations from relatives who were descendents of "Barr's Sheep".  So, the question of who was a "real Barr Colonist" is not an easily settled one.  However, the people on these lists were certainly pioneers.