Douglas Cameron (politician)

Sir Douglas Colin Cameron, KCMG ( born June 8, 1854 in Hawkesbury, Ontario, † November 27, 1921 in Toronto ) was a Canadian politician and businessman. From 1911 to 1916 he was vice- governor of the province of Manitoba.

Biography

After he finished school in 1871, Cameron worked as a farmer in Ontario. In 1880, he moved to Winnipeg and practiced various professions. In 1883 he founded in Rat Portage (now Kenora ) the wood processing company Cameron & Kennedy. This he sold in 1892 to the Council of Portage Lumber Company. He led this company as managing director and from 1894 as president. He also invested in the mining industry, opened a sawmill and founded a flour mill operation.

Cameron was in 1901 in the City Council by the Council Portage and later mayor of this municipality. As a candidate of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1902, he won in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the electoral district of Fort William and Lake of the Woods. He supported the next three years as a backbencher, the government of George William Ross. In 1905, he did not make the re-election and moved back to Winnipeg in order to devote himself entirely to his business activities. He also had no success in the general election 1908.

Because of its economic merits Cameron was raised to knighthood in 1913. Governor General Lord Grey sworn him on 1 August 1911 as Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. This representative office he held until August 3, 1916. In 1915 he had to intervene directly in the affairs of government, when he convened a commission of inquiry to investigate the allegations of corruption against Rodmond Roblin. The results of the study had the resignation of the government on the result.