When Matilda Ann Cann was born on 23 December 1841, in Brazil Lake, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Coleman Cann, was 22 and her mother, Mary Frances Crosby, was 20. She married Joseph Thomas Whitehouse on 13 April 1861, in Deerfield, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 20 years. She died on 1 March 1914, in Ohio, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Deerfield, 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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