Businessman. Educated at Harvard (A.B. 1914). In the 1920's Canaday was associated with the British-American Tobacco Company in China. As part of the company's advertising and promotion team, he traveled throughout China to represent the company to retailers in shops and at fairs. For further information see: Sherman Cochran's book, Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry (Harvard University Press, 1980).
Advertising and business executive of U.S. Advertising Corp. and Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., Toledo, Ohio; brother of Ward M. Canaday, Chairman of the Board, Willys-Overland Motors, Inc.