Brief Life History of James Harvey
When James Harvey Cann was born on 8 January 1858, in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, ALDEN CANN, was 19 and his mother, AMANDA, MARIA SHAW, was 14. He married Sarah H. about 1873, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He died on 23 June 1919, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 61, and was buried in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- James Cann in household of Alden Cann, "Canada Census, 1871"
- James Harvey Cann, "Nova Scotia Deaths, 1890-1955"
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World Events (3)
1869
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1909 · First Canadian Flight
The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): habitational name from Cann, a place in Dorset, named from Old English canna ‘can, cup’, used in the transferred sense of a deep valley, or a topographic name from the same word used elsewhere in southwestern England. Alternatively, from Middle English canne ‘can, vessel’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name denoting a maker of vessels for holding liquids.
Irish: shortened form of McCann .
Americanized form of German Kann and Kahn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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