When Martha Angeline Ann Canning was born on 25 November 1869, in Diligent River, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Stephen Colby Canning, was 31 and her mother, Angeline Smith, was 27. She married William James Lamb on 17 July 1895, in Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Mill Village, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871 and Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 30 years. She died on 7 January 1962, in Diligent River, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 92, and was buried in Diligent River United Baptist Cemetery, Diligent River, Cumberland, 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.
The Bluenose racing schooner was launched on March 26, 1921, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was evident that the ship was nothing like other ships that had been launched.
Irish (Derry and Donegal): from Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a personal name likely derived from a diminutive of cano ‘hound, wolf’ (though sometimes misinterpreted as ‘rabbit’).
Irish: alternatively, a shortened form of Ó Canann or Ó Canáin, see Cannon .
English: habitational name from a place in Wiltshire called Cannings, apparently named with the Old English byname Cana (of uncertain origin) + -ingas ‘people of’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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