Ganong Bros. Limited is Canada's oldest candy company; it was founded in 1873 in St. Stephen, New Brunswick where it is based to this day. Its primary product is boxed chocolates. A shelf filled with candies Candy is a term for a type of confectionery prepared by dissolving sugar in water or milk and boiling it until it starts to caramelize. ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... St. ... Chocolate comes in dark, light, and white varieties with cocoa contributing the brown coloration. ...
It now provides many chocolates for Laura Secord stores. Laura Secord (September 13, 1775 - October 17, 1868) was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. ...
The family name "Ganong" is a corruption of the original name, "Gagnon".
Ganong, Gilbert White, confectionery manufacturer, politician, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick 1917 (b at Springfield, NB 22 May 1851; d at St Stephen, NB 31 Oct 1917).
Persuaded by his brother, James Harvey Ganong, to give up teaching for commerce, he came to St Stephen in 1873 and opened a grocery and commission business, which was shortly expanded into a bakery and confectionery manufactory.
In 1889 Gilbert White Ganong invented and patented a process for printing the company name on the bottom of chocolates and for years used the advertising slogan "The Maker's Mark on Every Piece."In 1896 Ganong was elected MP for Charlotte County; he was re-elected twice and in 1917 was appointed lieutenant-governor of NB.
Ganong was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, and entered Harvard College (1941) just in time to be caught up in wartime disjointing of college and professional education.
Ganong has held major office also in most of the other professional and scientific societies of which he is a member.
Ganong earned distinction in each of the colleges where his peripatetic career as a student took him.
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