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"Cariboo" Cameron 1820-1888

Photo by Alan L Brown - June, 2005

Photo by contributors David & Kellie Clifford - April, 2009

Plaque Location

The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
The Township of South Glengarry
On the north side of Road 2
.2 km west of Road 27 (Summerstown Road)

Coordinates: N 45 03.364 W 74 34.059

Plaque Text

Born in this township, John Angus "Cariboo" Cameron married Margaret Sophia Groves in 1860. Accompanied by his wife and daughter, he went to British Columbia in 1862 to prospect in the Cariboo gold fields. That year at Williams Creek he struck a rich gold deposit. While there his wife died of typhoid fever and, in order to fulfil her dying wish to be buried at home, he transported her body in an alcohol-filled coffin some 13,840 km by sea via the Isthmus of Panama to Cornwall. She is buried in the nearby Salem Church cemetery. Cameron built this house, "Fairfield", in 1865, and in 1886 returned to the B.C. gold fields. He is buried near Barkerville, B.C.

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Posted January 9, 2011
I have done a lot of research for family history and have had the story of cameron told to me by a whitness who was at the graveyard when the casget was opened . She was a child then and has now passed. However the point I want to make is that in all research no where that I found was a daughter mentioned.

Posted March 31, 2010
My name is hannah cameron i am related to john. My grandma tells me staories about him all the time. It's nice to read an accual story about him. i would love to visit his home that is still standin and to visit his grave that is not far from where i live. As i live in cornwall.

Posted January 16, 2010
Cool! I just finished reading Pierre Burton's The Wild Frontier which tells the story of Cariboo Cameron. Unreal.

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