When Stayley Brown Cann was born on 1 January 1843, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Loran D. Cann, was 35 and his mother, Mary Jane Goudey, was 34. He married Lydia Ann Etherington on 12 March 1872. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 25 March 1921, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 78, 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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