Duncan Cameron (fur trader)
Duncan Cameron ( * ca 1764 in Glen Moriston, Scotland, † May 15 1848 in Williamstown, Upper Canada, now part of South Glengarry, Ontario, Canada) was fur traders and politicians in the former British colony of Upper Canada.
Born in Scotland in 1773 emigrated with his parents to Cameron Tryon County in the then North American Province of New York. During the American Revolution, his father fought on the side of the royalists, and after their defeat in 1785, the family moved to Quebec. That same year, Cameron began work as a secretary free fur traders on Nipigonsee, where he made of the fur trade dominant Hudson 's Bay Company ( HBC) and competitors soon expanded its activities in the direction of Lake Winnipeg.
After the collapse of the fur trade company in which he was employed, he joined in 1795 as a partner of the North West Company ( NWC ) in and directed their activities at Nippigon to 1807, always in fierce competition to the merchants of the HBC. He then headed together with Alexander MacKay of the reasons on Lake Winnipeg from Fort Bas -de- la- Rivière, where he also married an Ojibwa; the area became increasingly unprofitable due to overhunting and competition, however. Between 1811 and 1814 he led the trade at Lac La Pluie.
From 1814 onward, Cameron worked at the Red River with Alexander Macdonell where he was involved in the Pemmican War against the HBC and the settlers of the Red River Colony. In 1815 he drove with the help of the resident there for a long time Cree and Métis 140 new settlers and took the administrator of the HBC, Miles Macdonell, caught. That same year, however, he was overpowered and taken prisoner with his men by Colin Robertson of the HBC. We spent him to England, where he was indicted for the operations on the Red River, but acquitted and compensated for the detention. In 1820 he returned to Canada and settled in Glengarry County. He married Margaret McLeod, with whom he had a daughter and three sons. From 1825 to 1828 he sat for Glengarry in the Canadian House of Commons. In 1848 he died in Williamstown.