Agnes Deans Cameron (20 December 1863 – 13 May 1912) was a Canadian educator, travel writer, journalist, lecturer, and adventurer.

Accompanied by her niece Jessie Brown, and taking her ever-present typewriter and Kodak camera,[2] they began a 10,000-mile round trip to the Arctic Ocean, the first white women to do so.

On their return journey with a slightly different route to include the Peace River (where Agnes shot a moose) and a steamboat's first voyage on the Slave Lake.

"While the Count was unsuccessful drilling for "elephant pools of oil," Cameron's book and its images became a best seller and made her a media celebrity.

An earth-movement here has created a line of fault clearly visible for seventy or eighty miles along the river-bank, out of which oil oozes at frequent intervals.