John Donald Cameron (1858-1923)

Lawyer, MLA (1888-1892), MLA (1892-1895), MLA (1896-1899).

Born in Woodstock, Ontario, of Scottish ancestry, he was a brilliant student at the University of Toronto. Cameron came to Winnipeg in 1880. He was active in the Liberal Party and was MLA from South Winnipeg from 1892 to 1899. He served in the Greenway administration as provincial secretary and then as attorney general. He was appointed judge of the Court of King’s Bench in 1908 and judge of the Court of Appeal in 1909. He had a reputation as the province’s most literate judge. In 1919 he denied the first bail application of the eight leaders of the Winnipeg General Strike who were charged with seditious conspiracy.

He served as a Bencher for the Law Society of Manitoba and was, in 1905, a founding member of the St. Charles Country Club.

He died suddenly at St. Paul, Minnesota on 26 March 1923. He commemorated by the Rural Municipality of Cameron in Manitoba.

Sources:

“Free Press Necrology Files”, Winnipeg Elite Study, G. Friesen Fonds, Mss 154, Box 15, File 16, University of Manitoba Archives]

Profile revised: 28 August 2009

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