(12 July 1879-6 May1969), missionary. Born probably in Fassifern area, GC. Parents: Donald C. Cameron and his wife Margery MacPhee. She attended Alexandria High School and Cornwall Normal School, then taught for nine years in GC area schools, before training as a nurse at Allegheny General Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, and studying at the Presbyterian Deaconess College, Toronto. In Sept. 1911, she was designated by Glengarry Presbytery with the support of her home church at Kirk Hill to be a missionary to Central India, and she sailed for India in Oct. of that year. Thereafter, she was a missionary nurse for 32 years in India. She was a superintendent of nurses in Namuch, Indore, Banswara, Mhow, Dhar and Raltam in India. She translated a book on midwifery and obstetrics by Dr Henry Gellett into Hindi. She retired in 1943, and in May of 1944 she was in Cornwall, Ont., with plans to retire in Montreal. (Glengarry News 19 May 1944) She lived in Montreal in her later years, and died there, and is buried in the United Church Cemetery (West Church) Kirk Hill. A plaque in her memory was unveiled at the West Church,1982. She was unmarried but had two adopted daughters. She was the aunt of Brigadier Donald C. Cameron.

Glengarry News 15 & 22 Sept. & 13 Oct. 1911, 21 Sept. 1928 (feted at Lochiel), 5 April 1935 (home on furlough from India), 8 May 1969 * MacMillan, Kirk, 143, 149 (portrait) * GN 1 Sept. 1982, article (portrait) on Margaret Cameron and the unveiling of plaque * Butternuts and Maple Sugar 220-222 for family background, geneal., portrait, reprint of an obituary * Ruth Compton Brouwer, New Women for God: Canadian Presbyterian Women and India Missions, 1876-1914 (1990) 202