CANTON, a village of northern New York, U.S.A., on the Grasse river, 17m. S.E. of Ogdensburg; the county seat of St. Lawrence county. It is on Federal highway II, and is served by the New York Central railway. The population in 1930 was 2,822 Federal census. The village is in a prosperous dairy-farming region. It has a condensed-milk plant and several other manufac turing industries. For many years it was famous for its canoes, which went to all parts of the world. It is the seat of St. Law rence university (chartered 1856), which includes a State school of agriculture (established 1906), the Brooklyn law school and the Clinton Liberal Institute (founded at Clinton in 1832). There is a U.S. weather bureau station at the university. The first set tler, Daniel Harrington from Connecticut, came in 180o. The village was incorporated in 1845. From 1804 to 1807 it was called New Cairo. It was the home of Silas Wright, Frederic Reming ton, Irving Bacheller and A. B. Hepburn.