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Right of Passage

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Partridge Island and the harbour of Saint John, New Brunswick, 1835.
For some immigrants, the journey across the Atlantic was a harrowing experience; for many others, however, the passage was an adventure. The voyage by sailing ship was long and tedious, but after the mid-1850s, when more and more steamers entered the emigration trade, the trans-Atlantic journey was fast and safe.