(26 July 1862-3 March 1951), writer. He has been called a Glengarrian, but was in fact born in Trenton, Ont., the son of GC native John Cameron and his wife Agnes Emma Bleasdell, daughter of the Rev. W.M. Bleasdell an Anglican clergyman. William Bleasdell Cameron is remembered as the sole male survivor of the Frog Lake Massacre of 1885, in what is now Saskatchewan, and for the book in which he described this event, The War Trail of Big Bear (1926), later retitled Blood Red the Sun. A fifth edition was published by Hurtig in Edmonton in 1977 and includes a valuable sketch of Cameron’s life by Hugh A. Dempsey. Cameron also founded the first newspaper, The Vermilion Signal, at Vermilion, Alta, in 1907 and edited it for a few years. An ingenious man of varied occupations, among them authorship and editing, he was an active contributor to the American and British press. He died at Meadow Lake, Sask. He was an articulate and prominent “second-generation” Glengarrian of the Ralph Connor era. The Glengarry name seems to have “stuck” with him throughout life, and he may be guessed to have contributed to the widely communicated mystique of GC at this time.

Life in Morgan (1912) where an inattentive reading can lead to the belief that he was born in GC * MDict * Dempsey, as noted above * Vermilion Memories (1967?) for the connection with Vermilion of Cameron, “born in Glengarry County” * Bibliography of Glengarry 94 * Watters 32, 549, 660