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Duncan Cameron Fonds
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CA RBD MSG 1025
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February 25, 1827 (Creation)
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- Cameron, Duncan, 1764-1848
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1 page
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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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A partially printed document dated February 25, 1827, and signed by Duncan Cameron, elder brother and heir at law of Ranald Cameron, a partner in the North West Company, appointing Thomas Blackwood his power of attorney as a creditor of McTavish, McGillivrays, and Company, McGillivrays, Thain, and Company, and William H. McGillivray and Simon McGillivray.
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- McTavish, McGillivrays & Company. (Subject)
- McGillivrays, Thain and Co. (Subject)
- McGillivray, Simon, 1783-1840 (Subject)
- McGillivray, William, 1764-1825. (Subject)
- Cameron, Duncan, 1764-1848 (Subject)
- Blackwood, Thomas, 1773-1842 (Subject)
- North West Company (Subject)