Major-General Hardy Nelson Ganong CBE, VD, ED (April 18, 1890 - February 24, 1963) was a Canadian sportsman and a military commander who served in both World War I and II.

During peacetime, Ganong remained as a member of the militia, and, by the time World War II broke out, he had risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

[3] Stationed for a time at Prince George, British Columbia, in October 1943 he was placed in command of the 6th Canadian Infantry Division headquartered on Vancouver Island, where he was in charge of preparations for participation in the invasion of Japan.

[2] Ganong was awarded the Efficiency Decoration for his years of voluntary military service and in January 1944 was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

[4] In December of that year, with Canadian participation in the invasion of Japan cancelled and a Pacific coastal defence no longer deemed necessary, he was assigned to command the Allied troops in Newfoundland, where he remained until his retirement in 1945.

A St. Stephen town councilor for two years, Ganong was the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the 1949 Canadian federal election for the riding of New Brunswick Southwest.

Ganong and his wife died in February 1963 as a result of an auto accident during a winter snow storm on Route 1 in Charlotte County, New Brunswick while returning home from the city of Saint John.