=Cameron, John Hillyard= (1817-1876). Solicitor-general, Upper Canada, 1846-1848; represented Cornwall in Legislative Assembly, 1846-1847 and 1848-1851; Toronto, 1854; Peel, 1861-1866. Represented Peel in first Dominion Parliament, 1867-1872; Cornwall, 1872-1874; and 1874-1876. =Index=: =E= Elected 1848, 50. =B= Opposes Confederation scheme, his motion for an appeal to the people defeated, 185. =BL= Defeated in elections of 1848, 279. =Bib.:= Dent, _Last Forty Years_. =Cameron, Malcolm= (1808-1876). Elected to Assembly of Upper Canada for Lanark, 1836. A persistent opponent of the Family Compact. Appointed inspector of revenue, under Bagot. Held various offices in the La Fontaine-Baldwin and Hincks administrations. In 1863 resigned his seat, to accept appointment as Queen's Printer. Represented South Lanark in Dominion House, 1874-1876. =Index: B= Opposes George Brown in Kent and Lambton, 1851, 40, 41; a Clear Grit, who had joined Hincks-Morin government, 40-41; defeated by Brown, 77. =BL= Opens discussion on responsible government, 1841, 90; assistant commissioner of public works, 1848, 284; a bitter opponent of Sir F.B. Head--held minor office under Bagot, radical in his sympathies, 284; his resignation, 337; a leader of the Radicals, 341. =E= Elected 1847, 50; becomes assistant commissioner of public works, in La Fontaine-Baldwin ministry, 53; a leading member of Clear Grits, 110; joins Hincks-Morin government, 112; president of the Executive Council, 113; becomes minister of new department of agriculture, 117; postmaster-general, 1853, 126; defeated in Lambton, 134; advocates complete secularization of Clergy Reserves, 163. =R= Opposes separate schools, 224. =Bib.=: Rose, _Cyc. Can. Biog._; Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Morgan, _Cel. Can._ =Cameron, Sir Matthew Crooks= (1822-1887). Born in Dundas, Ontario. Educated at the Home District Grammar School, Toronto, and at Upper Canada College; studied law and called to the bar of Upper Canada, 1849. Sat in the Assembly for North Ontario, 1861-1863 and 1864-1867. Defeated in North Ontario for election to the House of Commons, 1867. Elected to the Ontario Assembly for East Toronto; provincial secretary, 1867-1871; commissioner of crown lands, 1871-1872; leader of the opposition in the Assembly, 1872-1876. Appointed judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, 1878; chief-justice of the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice, 1884. =Index: B= Seconds motion to submit Confederation scheme to the people, 185. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._; Rattray, _The Scot in British North America_; Read, _Lives of the Judges_. =Cameronians.= =Bk= 26th Regiment, stationed at Fort Niagara, 57. =Camosun. D= Indian village on site of Victoria, B.C., 175; meaning of name, 175. =Campbell, Captain. Dr= Accused in connection with Walker affair, 36; tried and acquitted, 38. =Campbell, General. Dr= Commissioner for exchange of prisoners, 207.