Hi Glen, Canada West wasthe most used name for a large pat of Ontario, while Canada East wasQuebec a bit of the maritime provinces. Walter Richardson Barrie, Ontario, Canada Glen C. Bodie wrote: > I can't speak to colloquial use, but in 1852 I have an ancestor who moved > from Beckwith Co to Plympton Co which is just west of London. There was > also Lambton Co, Middlesex Co and several others in the area. Most of (what > is now) Ontario had pretty well established names down to the County level. > Once you get West of there it seems to have been called a "District" of some > sort or name (Saskatchewan was the District of Assiniboia, East and West). > I can't prove it to you, but I would have thought of Canada West (at that > time) as anything West of the Great Lakes. Since it is pre-Confederation, > Ontario was called Lower Canada and Quebec was called Upper Canada. It's > not unreasonable that anything West of Lower Canada was "Canada West". > Don't treat this as fact, just Canadian school-boy learning. > > Regards - Glen C. Bodie > Personal contacts------------------------------- > Web http://www.glenbodie.com > Home mailto:glen@glenbodie.com > Office mailto:Glen.C.Bodie@esso.com > My Tree http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/gbodie/index.htm > ICQ http://wwp.mirabilis.com/7544260 > Snail Mail: 76 Strathcona Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4J 1G8 > Fax: (603) 250-8940 (via http://www.efax.com) > Thornicroft surname----------------------------- > Web http://genweb.net/~thornicroft > Mail mailto:thornicroft@genweb.net > Query > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/tho/Thornicroft > Mail List mailto:thornicroft-l@rootsweb.com > Antle surname----------------------------------- > Web http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~antlenf/default.htm > Mail mailto:antle@glenbodie.com > Query http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/ant/Antle > Mail List mailto:antle-l@rootsweb.com > Researching------------------------------------- > A.NTLE, B.ODIE, C.OFFIN, C.OMRIE, D.EWAR, F.ARQUHARSON, F.ORD, > F.REEMAN, G.RAINGER, L.AW, M.ACHRAY, M.CNIE, M.CPHAIL, M.UTCH, > O.SBORNE, R.ENNIE, S.MITH, S.TERNS, S.TEWART, T.HOMSON, T.HORNE, > T.HORNICROFT, T.UPPER, W.ALKER > >> M.UTCH+F.ARQUHARSON info at http://www.isn.net/~dhunter/index.html > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marjorie Bundy [mailto:bundy@onthenet.com.au] > Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 1:04 AM > To: SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Canada west > > In the 1851 census, Peter Mitchell says that Isabel his daughter was born > and baptised in... unreadable, Canada West. (He was canny enough to have > her rebaptised in New Deer) I know that some families moved back and forth > across the Atlantic for work but would very much like to know what is meant > by "Canada West" particularly as we have now had access to a letter sent > from Lancashire to a family in "London district" Canada West, America in > 1853. These two families are not in any way connected by the way. We would > just like to know what was meant by the term Canada West America around > that time.. > > WE think it might mean an area just west of Toronto around the town of > London. Can anyone confirm this? > Marjorie Bundy > > ______________________________ > > ==== SCOTLAND-GENWEB Mailing List ==== > GENUKI -Main Scotland Page > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ > > ============================== > RootsWeb.com now offers UNLIMITED Web space for FREE! > Sign up today for RootsWeb's Freepages program: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi