Hello! I have found a few Canadian census of one of my family members. But in this particular one there are symbols under "place of birth" I'm unfamiliar with. Google has been no help. This is the only census using this symbol of my family member's.
At first I thought the symbol that resembles a fancy printed captial F must mean "Foreign" or "France", but that doesn't make sense because my family member is Canadian born. It appears that the symbol is not actually an F because the handwriting of the census taker writes Fs very differently.
Anyone seen this before?
EDIT: THE ANSWER HAS BEEN FOUND! Thanks to yellow_hedgehog and hekla7, this link: https://www.prdh.umontreal.ca/census/en/uguide/enum_1852.aspx tells that in the 1852 Canadian census, it was instructed for census takers to use this F symbol to record the person as being "born in Canada to Canadian parents".