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William Bleasdell Cameron fonds
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5 cm of textual records
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William Bleasdell Cameron, 1862-1951, was born in Trenton, Glengarry County, Ontario. In 1881 he travelled to Winnipeg and then to Battleford, Saskatchewan where he worked at Macdonald's trading post. By 1885 he was working in Frog Lake with the Hudson's Bay Company and survived the Frog Lake Massacre. During the 1890s he worked for various newspapers and magazines in the United States, including Field and Stream. In 1905 he moved to Vermilion, Alberta and started the town's first newspaper, The Vermilion Signal. In 1910 he moved to Bassano and started The Bassano News. He later opened a stationery and drug business in Derwent before moving to Athabasca. He then lived in Vancouver, British Columbia for a time and finally settled in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. For a few years in the early 1940s Cameron was curator of the RCMP Museum in Regina. He and his wife Mary Maud Wilson Atkins had two sons, Douglas and Owen Wister. For further information see Harry Prest's article "William Bleasdell Cameron" in Canadian Writers before 1890 / W.N. New, ed. -- Detroit : Gale, 1990, p. 58-62; and R. H. Macdonald's introduction to Eyewitness to History : William Bleasdell Cameron, Frontier Journalist / edited by R. H. Macdonald. -- Saskatoon : Western Producer, 1985, p. xii-xxvi; and William Bleasdell Cameron : A Life of Writing and Adventure / Robert W. Hendriks.-- Athabasca : Athabasca University Press, 2008.
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The fonds consists of William's letters, information on The Bassano News, autobiographical notes, and stories of Cree personalities. Includes a typescript draft of his book When Fur Was King, co-authored with Henry John Moberly.
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Gifts of Leonard D. Nesbitt, Dr. George F.G. Stanley, The Luxton Museum, and The American Museum of Natural History in New York, 1961-1990, and purchased from John Rush Books, 1988.
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Several manuscripts of Cameron's books and articles are held by Library and Archives Canada, Saskatchewan Archives Board and the University of Saskatchewan Library.
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Record No. M-176;M-2572;M-4366;M-7828;M-8123<br><br>
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