George Cann

George Cann (30 May 1871 – 18 October 1948) was an Australian miner and politician in the Parliaments of Australia and New South Wales. Cann was born at Shankhouse, Cramlington, Northumberland, England, educated at Cramlington National School and became a coalminer at eleven. He married Catherine Roberts in 1890 and they had one daughter and one son. They migrated to New South Wales in 1900 and Cann worked as a miner near Lithgow and became invol... more

George Cann (30 May 1871 – 18 October 1948) was an Australian miner and politician in the Parliaments of Australia and New South Wales. Cann was born at Shankhouse, Cramlington, Northumberland, England, educated at Cramlington National School and became a coalminer at eleven. He married Catherine Roberts in 1890 and they had one daughter and one son. They migrated to New South Wales in 1900 and Cann worked as a miner near Lithgow and became involved in the Western Miners' Association. He served in the 30th Battalion of the first Australian Imperial Force from March 1916 until January 1918. Cann won the Australian House of Representatives seat of Nepean at the 1910 election for the Australian Labor Party. He was defeated at the 1913 election. That year he unsuccessfully constested the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Upper Hunter. In 1914, he won the seat of Canterbury and held it to 1920, when it was absorbed in to the new multi-member seat of St George; he was one of the... less