Reverend Canon

[Anomaly]

What exactly is a priest referred to as a Canon or the Canon at a Latin Mass parish near me?

[Didacus]

In latin mass I believe that is the priest's title.  But I usually attend mass in French... so maybe someone else has better insight than I do.

[Anomaly]

Hmm.   It is the title for the priest at a small Latin Mass parish the local bishop has fostered.  It’s not something I’ve ever heard before, and I’m old enough to remember pre V2.  (Keep in mind it took years for change to actually occur in small parishes).   At first I thought it was some schism thing.     But possibly not. 

[Luigi]

It means the same thing as "associate pastor" or "parish priest" or "cleric." HOWEVER, there is also a possibility that the priests at this particular parish also meet to pray (some of) the hours of the divine office together. If they do that, then the canon is one of the priests who meets to pray the divine office; he's stationed at that parish and probably will be for a long time, as opposed to being transferred to a new parish every 6 - 8 years, which was the norm in the 20th century. 

St. Dominic Guzman started out as a canon at a church in Spain, so the term goes back at least that far. More recently, The Canons Regular of St. John Cantius is a religious order founded in 1998 in Chicago, and their goal is to "restore the sacred." This definition is from their website: "Canons, originally groups of clerics gathered around a local bishop, were an ancient phenomenon and theirs is the oldest form of clerical religious life in the West. St. Augustine was the first to do this, and in order to help his clergy, who lived the common life together with him, he wrote a Rule of Life for them to follow."