Canton

Canton may refer to:

Places

Old name of Guangzhou City, China

Books and book chapters

• Canton (1920), anonymous illustrated guidebook issued by U. S. Navy.
• Canton, a chapter by H. A. Cartwright in 1908 book Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China
• Inside Canton (1858), book by French surgeon and diplomat Melchior Yvan

Reference items (dictionaries etc.)

• "Canton (China)," by Robert Kennaway Douglas in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Canton (China)," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Canton" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II (1771)

Related works

• "The Defence of Canton" in Littell's Living Age, 160 (2072) (1884)
• China and the Attack on Canton (1857), Parliament speech by Richard Cobden
• The University Medical School of Canton

Old name of Guangdong Province, China

• The Province of Kwangtung, a chapter in 1907 book The Chinese Empire. A General & Missionary Survey by J. Campbell Gibson

In the USA

• Canton, an illustrative book on the town Canton, Massachusetts.
• "Canton (Illinois)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Canton (New York)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Canton (Ohio)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Other

• "Canton" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II (1771)
• "Canton (division)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

People

• John Canton in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• "Canton, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• Author:William Canton