Notes:

"Margaret MacMillan(1832-1912) married Joseph Sutherland, born 1822 StRaphaels, Glengarry County, baptised St Raphaels R.C. Church. He was theson of George Sutherland(1792-1843) son of Joseph Sutherland(1735-1835)Lot 22-5 Lancaster Cty. Glengarry. George Sutherland married (May 29-1815by uncle) Catharine McDonell (1788-1874) daughter of Angus and MaryMcDonell; Angus was principle elder of St Raphaels. My GrandmotherCameron used to read the Catholic Bible to her grandmother (CatharineMcDonell). Joseph, Angus, and Isabella (my gt and his brother and sister)'went north' (Joseph went north after his father's death to visit hisCameron Rel. Lot 21-4 Finch ---his grandmother had been Marjory Cameron)and married into the same Presbyterian family of MacMillans (Lot 23-3Finch - Duncan Ban)."

From Margaret Cameron, Long Sault, Ontario

Family/Spouse: Margaret Macmillan. Margaret (daughter of Duncan Ban (of Glennevis & 23-3 Finch) Macmillan and Mary Macmillan) was born in 1832; died in 1912. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Margaret Cameron, Box 621, Long Sault, Ontario KOC 1PO

"I spent much time when I was a child with the older members of my familyand what I have listed for you is from family records. I have a copy of aletter which Somerled MacMillan wrote to my father's cousin, CassieMacMillan, outlining the MacMillan family history.

The last time I visited Cassie she was about ninety eight and my AuntMaggy MacLean with whom she lived was one hundred and one (Aunt Maggy'sdaughter had been married to Cassie's brother). These ladies were themost articulate women I have ever known outside of my two grandmothers.My Grandmother Cameron went out to vote when she was in her ninety sixthyear before she fell and broke her hip 'out at the farm'. My Grandmotherhad been a teacher but she and her sister spoke the Gaelic amongthemselves. My one cousin wrote a chart about Duncan Ban's family(GLenpean-glennevis) and published a family history. I grew up in thisatmosphere. My Dad was quite an historian. Unfortunately, i lost all hispapers when I was in Florida but I do have the typescripts. "

Family/Spouse: Donald (of 21-4 Finch) Cameron. Donald (son of Duncan (Big Clunes of 21-4 Finch) Cameron and Margaret Macmillan) was born in 1847; died in 1920; was buried in Macmillan Graveyard, Lot 19-1 Finch.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Archibald (of 21-4 Finch) Cameron. Archibald (son of Duncan (Big Clunes of 21-4 Finch) Cameron and Margaret Macmillan) was born in 1856; died in 1937. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Christopher Macrae. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Macintyre. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"My Uncle 'D.B.' as he was known( Duncan Cameron) was a Clerk of FinchTownship from 1911 until c 1926; he later moved to the States and had twodaughters.
"Uncle DB (as he was known) was driving his car at 90. "
From Margaret Cameron, of Long Sault, Ontario

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information from
Margaret Cameron, Box 621, Long Sault, Ontario KOC 1PO
margaret077@sympatico.ca

From the Ottawa Citizen, 1937
Outstanding Personalities Of the Ottawa District

The Cameron clan is as intimately associated with the township ofLochiel, in Glengarry, as it once was with the glens of Scotland,Dumbarton, or Stirling, where the clan bivouacked and fought underWallace.

The pioneer, Donald Cameron, (killed 1809) left the vicinity of (Partmissing here). Sumerstown 1808 to FinchR surrounded by dense forest andan acute form of nostalgia. He was a courageous soul. He had to beRRR..Inthe soil of FinchRR. He does not appeared to have tarried in Lochiel verylong. He went over to Finch township, and there, on concession four,about three miles from Finch village, the roots of this particular branchof the Cameron tree were planted deep and permanent in the soil of thisnew land.

Three generations were born on that 200 acre homestead, cleared by thepioneer and his son Duncan.

After Duncan came Donald Cameron, who is still remembered as a reave offoresight and ability and as a assessor and collector who continued inoffice over a period of thirty years. He married a comely Scottish miss,Catherine Sutherland of Roxburough township, a member of another familyof Highland pioneers, and born to them was a son whom they named Joseph.He is the subject of this brief sketch.

Born on Pioneer Farm
Joseph G Cameron was born on the homestead farm of his forbearers, andafter graduating from the primary school of the countryside and from highand model schools of Cornwall he taught for a year. That was probably tooprosaic an existence for one in whose fiber surged the restless activitythat history accords the Cameron Highlanders.

Thus in 1914 he graduated from Queen's as a Bachelor of Science in civilengineering and he's been building better roads almost ever since

From 1917 his life had been pretty much an open book in the unitedcounties of Dundas, Stormont and Glengarry; he has gone a long distancein his chosen sphere of activity, most of his waking hours appear to havebeen spent among blue prints, graphs and cumulative figures, but hepossesses the na?ve reticence and modesty of his Highland progenitors andaffects to envision nothing particularly singular or unusual about hisachievements or his importance in the community. That attitude mayprobably be ascribed to native Scottish modesty.

Becomes County Engineer

In 1917, just when Ontario's present improves system of county andprovincial highway construction was in a chrysalis stage, Mr. Cameronbecame the united counties engineer in charge of the highwaysconstruction. In the intervening score of years vast changes have takenplace in the system of making and maintaining roads and he watched itclosely and studied it assiduously. Now, despite of his inherent modestlyabout it all, he is pretty generally recognized throughout Ontario as anauthority on the subject and is presently first vice-president of thatinfluential, quasi-governmental institution - the Ontario Good RoadsAssociation.

Much Willing Service
Mr. Cameron is recognized as more than just a capable engineer. He isalso a useful citizen in those spheres pertaining to some of Cornwall'shigh attainments. For years he has been a member of the trustee boardwhich administers the affairs of that town's public school, admittedlyone of the foremost in the province. He was chairman of the board for oneterm. He is a member of the board of the managers for the Presbyterianchurch, is a member of the Cornwall golf club who knows intimately allthe bunkers and traps on the course. He is credited with talents as anafter diner speaker and finds relaxation in perusing the classics andworks on science and mechanics, but his greatest enjoyment is found amongthe cultural atmosphere of his own home where he may impress his youngson with Mark Twain philosophy that "all people were born equal with theScotch a little more so". He doesn't any use for shams for shibboleths,he is obviously sincere in his friendships, and one could well imaginehim in complete agreement with the cult of Robert Burns
"Frien'ship makes us mair happy.
Frien'ship ies us delight.
Frien'ship brings us here tonight."

R.A.J.

Joseph G. Cameron
Mr. Cameron was born m Finch Township in May 1890. He was the son ofDonald Cameron and the grandson of Duncan Cameron, who was the firstmale white child born in Finch Township. Mr. Cameron attended high schoolin Cornwall, and then attended Normal School. He taught for one year, andwent to Queen's University where he received his Bachelor of Science. Hewas appointed Counties' Engineer in 1917, and held this position for manyyears. Many of the fine roads in the county's road system can beattributed to the engineering skills of Mr. Cameron. He died March 8 1968.

From Finch Booklet by A Empey 2001 (page 91) Chapter Eight. PROMINENTCITIZENS (Sent by Margaret Cameron)

Family/Spouse: Hope Janet Maclean. Hope (daughter of George Lachlan Maclean and Janet Robina Johnstone) was born in 1891 in Goldsfield (Camerontown), Finch Township, Stormont County, Ontario; died in 1978. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lilas Ross. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Stanley Clark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"...email shows how emmeshed these Cameron families were within theTownships of Finch and Roxborough(adjacent to Finch Township on easternborder) The Boundary Road (between Finch and Roxborough is straighteast of the village of Berwick (a few miles), and the Blair familyhomestead is just within the border of Roxborough Township on the sixthconcession(from Finch Township). Mr. Art Blair's son, Peter Blair, nowlives on the homestead Blair farm. It does make it difficult for thelocal gen. My cousin, Chrissie MacIntyre Blair(the granddaughter of myGrandmother Cameron's sister, Christian(Aunt Christy Ann) SutherlandMacintyre(now deceased). married James Blair(cousin to Mr. Art Blair).It was Mr. Art Blair who told me about his relationship to D.D. Cameronwho lived on the fourth concession of Roxborough Township( Unrelated tomy Camerons). There was another Donald Cameron who settled on the fourthConcession of Roxborough Township a few miles east of the DD Cameron (NOTmy grandfather) who had 'come in' from Kenyon in the 1800s, and he wasthe ancestor of another one of my neighbours at one time. The farmacross the road from this particular Cameron farm had descendants of myDonald!. Kenyon Township is the township on the eastern border ofRoxborough Township.
Berwick is about three miles north of Finch Village (I used to bike backto Berwick as a child), and the boundary(north and south) road is aboutsix miles east of Berwick on the 6th.(The Blair farm is not too far fromthe Boundary Road)." From Margaret Cameron of Long Sault, 1st Oct 2003

Family/Spouse: James Blair. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: M Taylor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

THE FREE SPIRIT OF THE PIONEER WOMAN
By Margaret Cameron

One doesn't have to visit Upper Canada Village to experience the culturalshock of stepping back in time, using kerosene lamps and cooking bywoodstove. Ever since I decided to leave the city ten years ago to returnto my 'roots' I never regretted my decision.

Every family is knit into history by the strong strands of familyreminiscences, and, in my case, it is easy to see why so many of mygrand-aunts and grand-uncles lived well into their nineties as healthy,useful citizens.

Nancy Cameron from Summerstown married Donald Cameron and they settled inFinch Township in 1808, where a small clearing was made and a log cabinbuilt.

During the early spring time of 1809, Nancy Cameron hiked down a blazedIndian trail to the 'front' where at Summerstown she visited relatives.On her return home she was to carry supplies, but when she was away herhusband was killed by a falling tree.

According to family records "Rthe men carried the body down the trailfrom Finch to Lot 6 Concession 4, Cornwall from Lot 21 Concession 4Finch. Fires had to be made when they stopped at night to keep the wolvesaway from the body. The younger men or boys kept a large fire going inthe cemetery on the hill off South Branch Road to get the frost out ofthe ground, so a grave could be dug for the burial.'

Donald Cameron's wife became known as "The Red Widow Cameron" because ofthe color of her hair. She was left not only to cope with the wildernessbut also with four young children, the youngest being a not a year old.Duncan grew into a man of six feet five, and the family was referred toas "the Donald Big Duncans'. Eventually, land from the farm was donatedfor a school, the Cameron Schoolhouse.

Among pioneer families the women always took risks and did hard workalongside the men in a wilderness beset with frigid winters, the wolvesand other wild animals being a constant threat to the pioneers.

When I was a child I played in the log cabin Donald built, and I saw thetree which had grown from the stump of the one which fell on him, and Iwondered how his wife ever survived in such a lonely spot. Hardship?Living by kerosene lamp and eating food cooked on a woodstove is adelight in this year of bicentennial when one considers the number ofpeople who go camping and eat food cooked on open barbecues, while modernconveniences overflow in ultra modern country kitchens.

My great-great-grandfather, Donald Cameron, did not survive in thewilderness although his widow along wither four children lived longenough to see the forest retreat..

By simple enduring day to day like our pioneer ancestors did, searchingout the answers to the dilemma which is life itselfR the free spirit ofthe pioneer woman still exist in her descendents.

"The South Branch Road is really the 4th Conc. road. The original farmwas at the corner of McConnell Avenue(Cornwall, Ontario) and the SouthBranch Road(4th), at the extreme northeast corner of the town.. "
From Margaret Cameron, Box 621, Long Sault, Ontario KOC 1PO (23 February2003)


One of the reasons for making this information available "on line" is tohelp to set the record straight about this Cameron and other relatedlines (such as the connected Macmillan and Maclean lines). It seems thatover the years a number of well meaning, but inaccurate, versions haveappeared (particularly with regard to the descendents of Donald (Clunesof 21-4 Finch) Cameron who was killed in 1809). Some of these versionshave been published in book and other, apparently authoritative, forms,and so unwittingly led to misunderstandings. The information I presenthere is from Margaret Cameron, the gt. gt. granddaughter of the abovementioned Donald Cameron. Margaret Cameron grew up knowing much of thisinformation, as it was past on to her by her father, Joseph GeorgeCameron, who was very proud, and knowledgeable, of his ancestry, andseems to have made sure that it was accurately past on. This has beenadded to and further back up over many years and from many sources, suchas family papers, gravestones, the Registry Office, various olderhistorical records, etc. So, thanks to her efforts, I believe that thisis an accurate record of these family's ancestors and descendents (as fardown the line as those are shown).

Notes:

From The Toronto Star. Wednesday, September 18, 1991
OBITUARIES

TV's Don Cameron was a 'real newsman'

When people turn on the television news, they may not realize it but theyare watching a testimony to Don Cameron's life.

Hailed as dean of Canadian television journalist, a mentor and lighteningrod who attracted some of the greatest names in TV news to his side, Mr.Cameron died yesterday at the age of 66, after a lengthy battle withcancer.

"There are very few real newsmen," CTV's Sandie Rinaldo said. Don Cameronwas a real newsman.

Rinaldo who got her foot in the door at CTV as Mr. Cameron's secretary,described him as "dean of Canadian television journalist".

The Cornwall native graduated from the University of Toronto beforeheading back home to work for the Standard Freeholder and begin a careerthat would take him around the world.
He worked at a series of newspapers before his five years at NBC News inNew York.

He returned to Canada in 1959 as a CBC reporter, where during the next 13years he helped turn CBC into a formidable news gathering operation, hisefforts highlighted by shows like Newsmagazine.

As a correspondent and producer he covered the height of the Vietnam war,the US civil rights movement and conflicts in the Middle East.

Mr. Cameron headed to CTV to produce the network's flagship publicaffairs program W-5 in 1972. Within four years he was namedvice-president of CTV's network news and current affairs program, afterhelping create Canada AM.

"He invented many of the news-covering techniques we still use today andhelped to develop some of this country's finest reporters andcorrespondents," Tim Kotcheff, Mr Cameron's successor at CTV, said in astatement.
"He was a source of inspiration. A mentor and guiding light to many ofus."

He was swashbuckler," ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, a Canadian, saidfrom New York. "I think what I admired about him most was hisdetermination."

There's perhaps no better example of that determination than in 1983,when Mr. Cameron, then CTV's vice-president and recovering from a heartattack, ventured into war-torn Lebanon to find missing correspondentClark Todd.

Todd was found dead, and Mr. Cameron was admitted to hospital to recoverfrom exhaustion on his return to London, England.

Mr. Cameron showed the same courage as he battled cancerRRRR.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]