EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION TO CANADA AND THE U.S. ***ENCORE PRESENTATION***
Presented by Ted Scull
January 6 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 pm
With increasingly large numbers of Europeans desiring passage to Canada and the United States in the 19th century, many shipping lines built larger and faster ships to meet the demands right up to World War I. It was these souls who sailed in steerage that filled these ships and generated the profits for the shipping lines rather than those in first class. At this encore presentation of the program presented at our November/December membership meeting, author and PONY Branch past-chairman Ted Scull discusses how this important trans-Atlantic trade fluctuated, and how new ships were built to accommodate it into the 1960s.
If you missed Ted’s informative presentation in December or would like to see it again, we encourage you to join us for this encore showing on Saturday, January 6th.
(Ted Scull Photo: BERLIN seen on her last sailing from sailing from New York on 9/3/67. She regularly carried immigrants from Europe to America.)