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G.I. Cameron fonds
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Transferred to film 1982 (originally created 1902, 1939-1962, 1991) (Creation)
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- Cameron, G.I., 1900-1996
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8 film reels and other material
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Biographical history
Gordon Irwin Cameron was born in Trois Rivières, Quebec on January 22, 1900. His family moved to Ottawa after his father's death in 1912. Cameron joined the Ottawa Capital Cadets in 1912, then the Canadian Army in 1916, but he was discovered as too young to be sent overseas in the First World War. After discharge from the army in 1919, he joined the Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) for a three year term. In 1922 he went to the California gold fields to work as a welder. A year later he returned to Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), serving in Regina, then Vancouver. In 1925 Cameron was posted to Keno City, and then Dawson City, communities in the Yukon. He met and married Martha Ballentine in 1928, having to 'purchase' his discharge from the RCMP because married men were not permitted to serve. They moved to Ottawa, then farmed in northern Alberta. Their daughter Ione was born and the Camerons moved to Vancouver where Cam, as he was known, re-joined the RCMP. In 1935 he was posted to Fort Selkirk, Yukon and served there until 1949 when he retired from the Force. They moved to Whitehorse where Cameron worked with the Department of Game, then as a health and liquor inspector with the Yukon Government. He was involved with a group working to establish a Yukon Territorial Employee's Association (YTEA). In 1972 Cameron became the Sergeant-at-Arms for the Yukon Territorial Council. The Camerons were named Mr. and Mrs. Yukon in 1975, and Cameron was named to the Order of Canada in 1980. Martha Cameron died in 1990, and G.I. Cameron died in Whitehorse on April 29, 1996, having enjoyed the celebrations of the Centennial of the RCMP in 1995.
Custodial history
The textual records were found when Miriam McTiernan was researching labour relations. Cameron donated them to Yukon Archives, via Kurt Koken, in 1984. It is assumed that these are Cameron's personal copies of the YTE Association's records. The photograph was found by Gus Gaushauer and donated by G.I. Cameron.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of copies of 8 home movies (82/540) taken by "Cam" Cameron of his family's life at Fort Selkirk, and in the Yukon. The films date from 1939 to 1962 and show Corporal Cameron on patrol, the residents of Fort Selkirk, community events and development, and Cameron's work as an official for the Game department. There is a voice over by Cameron on the 8 films, recorded in March 1991 (92/66). The photograph (80/56), taken by Larss & Duclos, depicts a team of horses pulling a load of freight. The fonds also includes a file of records created in the effort to form a territorial employees' association, including correspondence and a petition requesting greater employee benefits and the minutes of the 1953 organizational meeting to form a Yukon Territorial Government Employees' Association (84/38).
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Physical condition
Includes: 8 film reels, col., 16 mm; 2 videocassettes; 4 audio tape cassettes; 1 folder of textual records; 1 b&w photograph. The original films were 8 mm but were copied onto 16 mm by a Montreal film firm. Some splice correction was done on films 1-5.
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There are detailed shot listings for each of the films. Caption list is available for the photograph in accession 80/56.
Associated materials
There are circulating copies of the videocassettes available through the Audio/Visual Unit.