The more convenient route was by New York, but it was also more expensive and a majority of all immigrants to Canada landed at Quebec. A good many immigrants to the United States also came this way, and then went on by the Richelieu River or the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario to Upper New York State, Pennsylvania, and the American mid-west. This picture shows Quebec in 1832 as it would have first appeared to an immigrant as his ship rounded Ile d'Orleans. The River St. Charles enters from the right and theSt. Lawrence leads on upstream to the left. In 1832 a total of 51,746 immigrants landed at Quebec, a figure that was not exceeded until the great Irish emigration of 1847 when 84,000 arrived. Immigration to no other port of entry in British North America approached these numbers.
