'Gilbert White Ganong' (
May 22,
1851 –
October 31,
1917) was a
Canadian politician,
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick and co-founder of
Ganong Bros. Limited,
candy makers in the town of
St. Stephen.
Born in
Springfield,
New Brunswick the son of Francis Daniel Ganong and Deborah Ruth Kierstead, he was a descendant of Jean Guenon, a
Huguenot exile from
La Rochelle,
France who settled in
New Amsterdam during the second half of the 17th century then several generations later following the
American Revolutionary War, one of Guenon's descendants were
United Empire Loyalists who settled in New Brunswick (then part of
Nova Scotia) in 1783.
In 1873, Gilbert Ganong co-founded Ganong Bros. Limited with his brother James.
In
1896, he was elected to the
Canadian House of Commons for the riding of
Charlotte. A
Liberal-Conservative, he was re-elected in
1900 and
1904, but was defeated in
1908.
On June 29, 1917, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick and served until his death in October.
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