George Frederick Cameron

[1] He was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of James Grant Cameron and Jessie Sutherland.

[4] In fall 1882 he enrolled in Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario, where he won a poetry prize in 1883 for "Adelphi".

Cameron's poem "On Leaving the Coast of Nova Scotia" was included in the 1889 anthology Songs of the Great Dominion.

A bronze plaque was affixed to the New Glasgow post office (since moved to the town's Dominion Building) by Historic Sites and Monuments of Canada which reads: "George Frederick Cameron, Poet and Journalist, Author of Lyrics of Freedom, Love and Death.

"[6] The George F. Cameron fonds at the University of British Columbia consists of manuscript notebooks as well as handwritten and typewritten copies of his poetry.