Brief Life History of Frances C.
When Frances C. Cann was born on 22 January 1856, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Lyman Corning Cann Sr., was 53 and her mother, Elizabeth Hibbard, was 37. She married Charles Churchill Richards in 1876, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years. She died in 1918, in Canada, at the age of 62, and was buried in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Fannie C Richards, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Fannie C. Cann, "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949"
- Francis C Richards, "Nova Scotia Deaths, 1890-1955"
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World Events (2)
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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