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| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds |
| No.: | PR1965 |
| TITLE: | Donald Roderick Cameron fonds |
| CREATOR: | Donald Roderick Cameron |
| DATE RANGE: | 1864-[187-] |
| EXTENT: | 0.02 m of textual records -- 11 photographs. |
| ADMINISTRATIVE |
| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Captain Donald Roderick Cameron was born in Scotland. Upon the recommendation of Sir John A. Macdonald, Donald was appointed British Boundary Commissioner by the British Foreign Office; he held this position for most of the 1870s, overseeing the International Boundary Survey from 1872 to 1876.
Donald Cameron became a Major-General and a Commandant of the Royal Military College in Kingston from 1888 until 1896. He was also made a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George by Queen Victoria for his service to the British Commission. Cameron Falls and Cameron Lake in the vicinity of Waterton Lakes National Park are named after him. Donald Cameron married the daughter of Sir Charles Tupper.
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| CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Ruth and Leo Hamson donated the records to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1992 and 1993. The Hamsons likely received the records from Chris Cameron, great-grandson of Donald Roderick Cameron. |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of a diary, a photograph of Captain Donald Roderick Cameron and photographs of the International Boundary Commission. |
| RELATED RECORDS: | Please also see the Ruth and Leo Hamson fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. |
| GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from "The 49th Parallel" by Don W. Thomson in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 134, No. 2 (June 1968) and from the records.
The images can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.9150 through A.9156.
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