When Havilah Hall Cann was born on 28 January 1854, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, ALDEN CANN, was 15 and her mother, AMANDA, MARIA SHAW, was 10. She married Robert Hibbard Sr. in 1874, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. She died in 1919, at the age of 65, and was buried in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
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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