Hi Eric,
This may not be a specific solution to your questions but could point
arrows in directions not thought of. The following list is of Cannings
from NS who enrolled in the first world war. Their attestation papers
may shed more light.
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004314a.gif William Joseph Canning,
Springhill, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004315a.gif William Victor Canning,
Liverpool, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004255a.gif Archibald "Archie"
Canning, Shulie, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004257a.gif Arthur Canning, Sydney,
NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004259a.gif Arthur Lorne Canning,
Sydney Mines, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004260a.gif Cecil Winfield Canning,
Parrsboro, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004263a.gif Clarence Gleason
Canning, Bass River, Colchester
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004267a.gif Ernest Canning, Macaan,
NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004268a.gif Everett Imbert, Port
Greville, Cumberland Co., NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004269a.gif Frank Canning, Port
Greville, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004270a.gif Fred Austin, Sheffield
Mills, Kings Co., NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004272a.gif Harry William, Diligent
River, Glasgow Mtn, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004275a.gif Henry Canning, Logan
Lodge, Port Greville, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004277a.gif Hiram Canning, 60
Station St Amherst, Cumb. Co.,
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004278a.gif Hiram Edgar, Shulie,
Cumb. Co. (now Halifax)
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004283a.gif Jesse Arthur Canning,
Parsborough, NS (sic)
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004287a.gif Lawrence Francis
Canning, Diligent River, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004288a.gif Lawrence Keith Canning,
Ward's Brook, Cumb. NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004289a.gif Leo Vern Canning,
Ward's Brook, Cumb. Co., NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004295a.gif Otis Albert Canning,
Ward's Brook, Cumb. Co., NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004297a.gif Raymond Maurice
Canning, Springhill, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004303a.gif Roland Hanney Canning,
Diligent River, NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004309a.gif Walter Herberty, West
Caledonia, Queens Co., NS
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/ren1/004310a.gif Wilbert Harold Canning,
Port Greville, NS
Lots of luck, Ron
On Friday, Jan 14, 2005, at 20:49 America/Vancouver, Carmichael & Keys
wrote:
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> I was unable to put up my Xmas wish list before the holidays but there
> is two things with which someone out there might be able to help me.
>
> (1) Miner Canning (name may be John Miner Canning) b ca 1854 appears
> as a 17yo in the 1881 census, then vanishes. Rumours abound that he
> went to the US but no one seems to know where (it's a big country
> too!) but New England is a likely destination. He was the son of John
> Albert Canning (1830-1900) and Christianna Harrison (1831-1916).
> Miner's brother Harry took his family to Braintree, MA about 1908 and
> family that I've been in touch with there have no knowledge of Miner.
> Additionally, descendents of his other brother Lovell (here in
> Moncton) also don't remember Miner.
>
> (2) Another Canning family (Miner's uncle) Micheal Canning, son of
> William Cannon & Fanny Atkinson "went out west and had a family there"
> according to David Jenks Taylor's notes. Taylor also notes that it
> was an accident involving Michael that cost Taylor an eye as a young
> boy. Again, I have no knowledge of where Michael Canning and family
> settled but I'd love to track his descendents down. Michael was born
> in 1824 and was still alive in late 1900 when his two brothers (John &
> Isaac) died.
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> If anyone can help, thanks. It's 1AM and this genealogy's keeping me
> up nights!
>
> Eric Keys
> Riverview, NB
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