(12 Dec. 1900-21 Dec. 1978), municipal officer. (Cameron Kennedy, L. C. Kennedy, L. Cameron Kennedy) Born in GC, at R. R, 1, Williamstown. Parents: William Kennedy and his wife Annabelle McKillop. Cameron Kennedy attended primary school S. S. 7 Charlottenburgh, and Cornwall Collegiate Institute, and became a farmer. In Charlottenburgh Twp, he was a councillor (1935-1940) and deputy reeve (1941), then was clerk (clerk-treasurer) of the township 1942-1949. From 1949 (Glengarry News 12 Aug. 1949) till his retirement in 1972, he was clerk (clerk-treasurer) of SDG. Cameron Kennedy held this office during the important period in which the St. Lawrence Seaway was built, and was an attendant at the meetings of the International Joint Commission for the seaway. A forceful man, deeply informed in municipal administration, Cameron Kennedy is said to have refused the offer of being made the province’s deputy minister of Municipal Affairs. To mention two of his roles in public affairs, he was at some stage a president of the Glengarry Progressive Conservative Association, and he was a member of the Board of Governors of St. Lawrence College of Applied Arts and Technology, Cornwall. Throughout his life, he was a resident on the family farm, near Williamstown. He died at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall. He was a Mason, and was an elder in St. Andrew’s United Church, Williamstown, and is buried there. He was married to Helen Welch and they had two sons, William and Bruce.

Glengarry News 4 Jan. 1979 * private inf. * parents: Stiles 136 (father’s farm), Fraser, Gravestones, I, 166 * Marin: index.