Arthur D. Ganong

Who was Arthur D. Ganong?

Arthur Deinstadt Ganong was a Canadian businessman and politician. He was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick into a chocolate making family and would serve as president of Ganong Bros. Limited from 1917 to 1957.

He was the sixth of the seven children of James Harvey Ganong and Susan E. Brittan. His father and his uncle, Gilbert, founded the chocolate-making company in 1873. Among his siblings are educator Susie, businessman Edwin, botanist William, and Kit Ganong Whidden.

On 8 June 1904, Arthur Ganong married Berla Frances Whidden of Grand Manan, New Brunswick. The couple had four children.

Ganong worked all his life in the family business and took over as its head from his Uncle Gilbert who died without issue. Arthur Ganong and company employee George Ensor developed a chocolate bar to take along on their fishing trips and in 1910 the company introduced the first 5-cent chocolate nut bar in North America.