| Name |
Walter Graham "Wattie" Cameron |
| Nickname |
Wattie |
| Birth |
6 Jun 1840 |
Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FindaGrave Memorial ID |
81155699 |
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| Travel - Arrival |
Colorado gold rush |
| Occupation |
became a lumber camp/ log drive foreman in his 20's |
- Wattie worked eleven drives and often told of their fear of the whirlpool at Lake St. Peter.
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| Occupation |
Lachute, Laurentides Region, Quebec, Canada |
| blacksmith - built ploughs and harrows |
| Occupation |
Fallbrook, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
| Farmer's hotel |
| Occupation |
first year in shantiy the year he was thirteen |
- His mother knit him underwear, toque, mitts, and socks; made him jacket and pants from their own wool, woven in the Ayrs Mills in Lachute. His father made him beefskin moccasins.
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| _UID |
F0F08A1CB9094B5DA50C3EC7FB8DE6C7DB43 |
| Death |
24 Oct 1913 |
Fallbrook, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
- Walter was the second of nine children born to farmer John Cameron from Scotland and Joan Graham of Scottish parents.
Obit published Wednesday, November 5, 1913
PERTH/FALLBROOK, on Friday last, Walter Graham Cameron, aged 73 years. Born in Cote du Midi, Argenteuil county, Quebec, June 6, 1940, he left home at the age of 16 for Bytown.
He worked with many of the lumber farms of the time, McFarlanes, of Madawaska, Gillies & McLaren, on the Mississippi. He made 17 trips to Quebec on the rafts of square timber, being wrecked many times on Lake St. Peter.
He located at Fallbrook in 1874, buying out the business of the late Wm. Smith. He was for 34 years the Postmaster at Fallbrook. From 1892 thru 1894, he was on the Bathurst Council and from 1898 to 1904 he was a commissioner on the old County Councils Constitution.
On July 1, 1874, he married Margery Anna MacMartin, also of Cote du Midi, who survives him.
Three brothers and two sisters also survive; James, of Fallbrook; Alex, in Cresent City, BC; John at Cote du Midi; Mrs. John Barclay, and Miss Annie Cameron. Burial near Carillon, Quebec.
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| Burial |
St Andrews Protestant Cemetery, Saint-Andre-d'Argenteuil, Laurentides Region, Quebec, Canada |
| Person ID |
I30774 |
Lanark County Origins |
| Last Modified |
29 Jun 2021 |
1840 - 1913 (73 years)
