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