Mrs. Hannah McCann of Ottawa, Ontario, was the 1952 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 1952, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all Canadian women who have lost a loved one in military service to Canada.

On March 24, 1944, her son, Pilot Officer Leonard Myles McCann, was killed in action while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.