CANTON, a town of Norfolk county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 14m. S. of Boston, on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The population in 1930 Federal census was 5,816. It has numerous and varied manufactures, including textiles, patent leather, fish-lines and fire-alarm systems. Canton has been a man ufacturing town since colonial days. It was the site of Paul Re vere's brass and bell foundry. In the shade of Blue hill, John Eliot began his missionary work among the Indians. The town was separated from Stoughton and incorporated in