(1866-1 Jan. 1957), housewife, author. (Kate Ferguson, Kate Cameron Ferguson, Katie A.B.C., Catherine A.B. Cameron Ferguson ) Born at Thurso, Que. Parents: Alex Cameron and his wife Annie Stewart. Kate Cameron, who was only 16 months old when her mother died, was raised by her Stewart grandparents at Stewarts Glen, GC. She became a schoolteacher in the GC area. She then married Gordon Ferguson (b. 1865), and she and her husband farmed two miles southwest of Dunvegan. Their daughter Edith Ferguson describes the busy, well-filled farmhouse (which included grandparents as well as children) of a music-loving family. Other children included Christena and Martin Ferguson and Mrs Elizabeth Blair. The family were not all fully grown when Gordon died on 8 July 1914 and Kate was a widow for more than 40 years. Kate was the author of two small books, Humorous Stories of Pioneer Life in Glengarry (n.d., 1945? 16 pp.) and Glengarry and Other Short Poems (n.d., 12 pp.) She wrote the words and her husband composed the music for the song, “The Twinkle of Love in Your Eyes,” which was published as a printed music sheet in 1937. She taught Gaelic to classes at Dunvegan in the 1950s. She died in Ottawa, on New Year’s Day, aged 90 (seven children, five surviving her) See also D. M. Macpherson.

Glengarry News 10 Jan. 1957 * Campbell (1990) 100-108 (with portrait) * gravestone Gordon Cemetery, St. Elmo * Kenyon Church Report 1914, 1957 for deaths of Mr & Mrs Gordon Ferguson * MacMaster 333 * Laing 8 (fine portrait) * Maxville (1991) 687 * Glengarry Life 1985 (incl. her poem “Glengarry”) * GHS, Newsletter, Oct. 1996 (includes her poem “The Man from Glengarry” on Ralph Connor) * to be teacher if Gaelic classes are begun, Dunvegan area, GN 21 Jan. 1944