Major-General Hardy Ganong
Carleton and York Regiment
3rd Infantry Brigade
8th & 6th Divisions

Gen. Ganong is the proud owner of about 30 pipes, all of which are presentation pieces marking milestones on his eventful military career. His batman, who has served with him since the outbreak of the present war, know each of them by the first name of the donor. The General refers to them in the same way … But getting back to the matter of the General’s first cigarette. He will smoke it, he has promised, in the Allied officers’ mess in Tokyo!

(Vancouver Sun, 16 Oct 1943, 6)

Born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick on 18 April 1890, Hardy Nelson Ganong was a manufacturer, curler, and First World War veteran. He went to France in November 1916 as a reinforcement junior officer with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles. Wounded in March 1917, he returned to the field eight months later and served until the end of the war. A member of the militia since 1909, he became commanding officer of the Carleton and York Regiment in 1938 and mobilized with the battalion the next year.

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