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Cameron, Duncan, 1764-1848
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1764-1848
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Duncan Cameron was born in 1764 in Glen Moriston, Scotland, and died in 1848 in Williamstown, Upper Canada. He was the son of Alexander Cameron and Margaret McDonell. Cameron moved to Quebec in 1785 and entered the fur trade as a clerk for Alexander Shaw and Gabriel Cotte in the Lake Nipigon region. Between 1807 and 1812, Cameron married an unknown Ojibwa woman connected to the loon clan in the Nipigon area (with probability that the marriage was “a la façon du pays”) sometime between 1807 and 1812, with whom he had a family. In 1820, he married Margaret McLeod, daughter of Captain McLeod of Hamen. They had one daughter and three sons, and one of the sons named Sir Roderick William became active in the shipping trade to Australia. Cameron Street in Winnipeg is named after Duncan Cameron.
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Revised on June 10, 2024, by Leah Louttit-Bunker