Cameron, Duncan

Cameron, Duncan

▪ Canadian fur trader
born 1764, Glen Moriston, Inverness, Scot.
died May 18, 1848, Williamstown, Canada West

      fur trader who became involved in a rivalry with the Hudson's Bay Company over the settlement of the Red River region of western Canada.

      As a child, Cameron emigrated with his family from Scotland to Tryon county, N.Y. In 1785 he entered the service of the North West Company, a fur-trading firm working in the Nipigon department north of Lake Superior. About 1800 he was elected a partner in the company, and until 1807 he headed its operations at Nipigon. He was in charge of the stations at Lake Winnipeg, 1807–11, and Rainy Lake, 1811–14. He then took over the Red River depot in what is now Manitoba, where he had to cope with a rival colony established by Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of Selkirk, who controlled the Hudson's Bay Company. He tried to eject the colonists; but in 1816, after attacking Ft. Gibraltar, Cameron was captured by officers of the Hudson's Bay Company and sent to England for trial. There he won acquittal and damages for false imprisonment. He returned to Canada about 1820 and settled at Williamstown; in 1824 he was elected to represent Glengarry in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada.

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