(fl. 1820 & 30s), emigration leader. He was a half-pay officer from Scotland who is said to have brought Scottish settlers to GC and to Lower Canada. Cameron later obtained land grants in Eldon and Thorah Tps (i.e., in Victoria and Ontario Counties, east of Toronto) in the 1820s with a view to settling Highlanders on them including some from GC. His project was unsuccessful and involved him in legal disputes and disputes with the Crown and with the settlers which lasted some twenty years. In the late 1830s he was involved in building a colonization road (once called “The Cameron Road”) from Thorah to Whitby. In 1834 people from Lancaster and Lochiel Tps in GC petitioned the government on behalf of Cameron. He is buried at Beaverton, Ont.

Cameron does not appear even in the cumulative name index of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and he is not mentioned in McLean, The People of Glengarry. See, however, Rae Fleming, Eldon Connections: Portrait of a Township (1975), for this elusive but not unimportant historical figure * Whyte, i, 38 * petition, l834: NAC, G Series, G75 p. 358 * Ross, Lancaster, 71 * Rose, ii, 202 (a Glengarrian in Thorah, Kenneth Campbell, mentioned)