The name is of English origin, but that is just where it stops, Middlesex, the first village in Canal Number Two, was bought by four brothers, Rahiem Lalman, Mangal, Liliah and Karan. Today only 85-year-old Rahiem is still alive, but the real history of the village appears to have been lost as he is senile and cannot recall anything.
One of his daughters said she believed the village was bought around the time she would have been born in the fifties. And given that it was purchased by four brothers, just about the entire village—approximately 80 persons—is related.
When the World Beyond Georgetown met with the man and his family they were all
