Charles I. Cameron

Born: 1837, Kil­mall­ie (near Fort Will­iam), Scot­land.
Died: March 3, 1879, New Ed­in­burgh, Ot­ta­wa, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da.
Buried: Ca­tar­a­qui Cem­e­tery, Kings­ton, On­ta­rio, Ca­na­da.

Emigrating to Ca­na­da in 1858, Cam­er­on at­tend­ed Queen’s Coll­ege, Kings­ton, where he grad­u­at­ed, then stu­died for three years at the The­o­lo­gi­cal Hall and in Glas­gow. Or­dained in 1865, he went to In­dia as a miss­ion­ary for the Church of Scot­land, but lat­er was com­pelled to leave due to ill health. He tried to work in Aus­tral­ia for a time, but re­turned to Ca­na­da in 1875 and took charge of a con­gre­ga­tion at New Edin­burgh, in the Pres­by­te­ry of Ot­ta­wa. In a brief time his health again gave way, and he had to re­sign his work, dy­ing short­ly af­ter­wards. He wrote a num­ber of po­ems which were pub­lished in a small vol­ume af­ter his death.

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