(died 4 Feb. 1933 in her 89th year), personality. Born Sarah Wood. Parents: William Dixon Wood and his wife Harriet Wagoner. Mrs Cameron’s grandfather William Wood built the stone house later used as the United Counties Museum in Cornwall and her brother Corydon Wood (who used the name Gordon Wood) was co-owner with his uncle of a woollen mill at Moulinette west of Cornwall. Sarah Wood married Alexander Cameron (known as Sandy Cameron), the brother of the celebrated John A. (“Cariboo”) Cameron, who himself married one of her Wood relatives.

     Alexander Cameron operated a grocery business at Lancaster in a building formerly used by the businessmen James Alexander and D.A. Macpherson. In a letter written in 1935, A.M. Sutherland, who remembered the excitement caused by the return of Cariboo Cameron from the gold fields, observed that Cariboo Cameron “must have been good hearted as he purchased the farm known as the Grand Trunk Farm and gave it to his Brother Sandy.” It was at Alexander’s home, St. Lawrence Lodge, South Lancaster, that his mother died, 21 April 1887. (DTL, Standard Freeholder 22 April 1961 based on Cornwall Freeholder 22 April 1887)

     From Mrs Cameron’s obituaries it is evident that she was considered a person of considerable importance. The reason for the importance is not indicated but her exceptional family and other connections were alone enough to make her significant, and she undoubtedly also had gifts of character and personality, and appears to have been of noted hospitality. The Cornwall obituary states “Two years ago a splendid portrait of Mrs. Cameron, painted by the American artist Weyman Adams [sic–correctly Wayman Adams], was exhibited at the gallery of the Art Association in Montreal.” Wayman Adams (1883-1959) also painted Mrs Archibald Browne. Mrs Cameron entertained Mr and Mrs Donald (later Sir Donald) MacMaster at her home, St. Lawrence Lodge, in South Lancaster, GC. (20 Years Ago column, CF 21 Oct. 1926) Among the relatives and friends named as attending her funeral were Dr W.L. McDougald and Col. A.G.F. Macdonald. She was buried at Salem cemetery, Summerstown. She was survived by her daughters Mrs David Fraser and Miss Helen Cameron, and by a son Dr Barton Cameron of Edmonton. Another son, Major Douglas Cameron, was killed at Passchendaele.

Standard Freeholder 8 Feb. 1933, Glengarry News 10 Feb. 1933 * Elizabeth Hoople and the Wood Research Team, Jonas Wood U.E.L. (1984?) 15 * Alexander Cameron: Fraser (1959) 236; Ménard 46-48 (Sutherland letter) * Wayman Adams: Who Was Who in America, vol. III: 1951-1960 p. 15; “New Exhibits Planned at the Museum,” on United Counties Museum, SFH 13 June 1959 (mentions Mrs Cameron and a photograph of the painting); Russell Harper on Archibald Browne, Glengarry Life 1977