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Place of Birth: St. Stephen, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada
About R. Whidden Ganong
- Rendol Whidden Ganong, (October 2, 1906 – March 18, 2000) was a Canadian businessman from the Province of New Brunswick.
- Known as Whidden, he was born in the border town of St.
- Stephen, the eldest son of Berla Frances Whidden and Arthur D.
- Ganong. Ganong studied at St.
- Stephen High School, Rothesay Collegiate School in Rothesay, New Brunswick, and Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario.
- In 1927 he went to work for Ganong Bros., the family-owned chocolate making business. In 1955-56, Whidden Ganong served as Chairman of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council.
- In 1957 he succeeded his father as president of the firm, serving in that capacity until his retirement in 1977.
- He was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1989. Whidden and Eleanor Ganong maintained a home in St.
- Stephen and owned a 330-acre (1.3 km2) farm at Todd's Point, New Brunswick located five miles (8 km) east of St.
- Stephen along New Brunswick Route 1.
- The property separates the St.
- Croix Estuary from Oak Bay.
- Whidden Ganong died in 2000, predeceased by his wife in 1982.
- Their farm property is now the Ganong Nature Park.
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