Fonds AFC63 - Donald MacKenzie Cameron fonds

Donald MacKenzie Cameron was born in Dingwall, Scotland on November 11, 1843. Moving to Canada in 1859, Cameron married Victoria Gooderham (b. 2 April 1846). In addition to Lillian (b. 1874), Victoria's daughter from her previous marriage to Robert Wilson, the couple had four children:
Victoria Cameron Routledge (b. 27 Feb. 1876)
Kenneth Cameron (b. 1 Nov. 1880)
Norman Cameron (b. 7 Jan. 1882)
Evan Cameron (b. 18 May 1885)

After working as a reporter for the London, Ontario Prototype and the Toronto Globe newspapers, Donald Cameron took over his father's Strathroy, Ontario shoe store in the 1860s. He served as Deputy Reeve and Reeve of Strathroy between 1878 and 1883, and was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for West Middlesex in an 1883 by-election. Cameron was defeated in the federal election of 1887.

Cameron left his family shoe store, Cameron and Son, in 1894 and the family moved to London, Ontario. He was appointed Sheriff of Middlesex County in 1894 - a position he would hold for 27 years. Beginning in 1897, he served for 20 years as President of the London and Middlesex County Children's Aid Society. Cameron was also active in lobbying railway companies to extend routes through rural South-western Ontario towns.

After Victoria Gooderham Cameron died in December, 1922, Sheriff Cameron remained at the family home in London until 1926. He then moved in with his son Kenneth in Ottawa, where he lived until his death on May 12, 1936. Donald MacKenzie Cameron and his wife are interred in the mausoleum at London's Woodland Cemetery.