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| Photo from Tiny Lands |
Old
folks of Canlaon mention of a pair of ill-starred lovers Princess Laon
and Kang who were forced to elope to keep their warring chieftain
fathers from breaking them apart. Unfortunately, the lovers were
captured and doomed to die amidst the harsh conditions of the
wilderness.
From
their deathbed rose Malaspina, a fabled volcano intermittently spewing
lava. It was later called Canlaon, considered one of the highest peaks
in the Philippines, rising at 8,000 feet above sea level.
In
the olden times, Canlaon was known as Sitio “Mabigo” of Barrio
Panubigan,which was then under the Municipality of Vallehermoso, a place
where bigo trees abound. This wilderness area was ruled by a native
chieftain called “Saniko.”
Later
on , Mabigo became part of the sprawling property of Don Diego de la
Viña in Vallehermoso. The area soon gained prominence as a hub of
commerce and agriculture as migrants from Cebu, Bohol and Panay settled
in the area. In 1941, an Ilocano geodetic engineer, Isidro Bautista Sr.,
who married a dela Viña girl, Natividad, along with Mabigo residents
filed a petition urging the national government for Mabigo’s conversion
into a municipality. However, war in the Pacific broke out and dimmed
all hopes for the township.
October
11, 1946 saw the creation of the Municipality of Canlaon, when then
President Manuel Roxas issued Executive Order No. 19 declaring the
separation of Mabigo and its surrounding sitios from Vallehermoso.
Isidro Bautista Sr., became the first mayor of the municipality of
Canlaon.
Republic Act No. 3445 created the Chartered City of Canlaon on June 18, 1961.
Its inauguration as a city came by virtue of Executive Order No. 193 issued by then President Ferdinand Marcos on July 2, 1967.
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