Photo Gallery of
Alexander Sebastian Cameron (1891-1978)

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1903

Alex's widowed mother, Georgina Sebastian, with her eleven surviving children.  Alex is at the far right, between the first and middle rows.

1904

The Gladstone (Manitoba) Crescent Baseball Team.  Alex is the second young man (from the left) seated in the middle row.

1906

These skates, which Alex purchased in Gladstone in 1904, and used by him for 60 years, were used in 1906 when he and a brother opened the first skating rink in Lloydminster, Alberta.  They are on display at the Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre, in Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan.

March 20, 1913

Medal awarded to Alex Cameron (mistakenly engraved as "A.C. Cameron," instead of "A.S. Cameron") after his being chosen one of the four best hockey players on the Lloydminster Hockey Team.

 

circa 1917

Canadian Royal Flying Corps mementos from Alex S. Cameron's tour of duty, which began sometime around 1916 and finished in mid 1917, when his wife passed away.

 

1920

The Cameron family home in the Livingstone District, near Gladstone.  The photo was taken years after the family had left and moved to Alberta.  The small log cabin in the rear is where Alex was born.  His father built the front plank addition in 1900.

1923

Alex and his first born child, Dorothy, near their home in Chicago.

January 3, 1928

Close up of Alex from a group photo of Cameron Surgical Specialty Company's officials and salesmen, gathered for their Annual Sales Convention.  To view the entire group photo, please click here.

January 6, 1928

Cameron's Surgical Specialty Company's banquet, during their Annual Sales Convention, at Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club.

1928

Alex, holding his son Alexander Wilnor Cameron, outside their new home in Park Ridge, Illinois.

August 1929

Alex and his son Alex, once again outside their Park Ridge home

January 6, 1930

Close up of Alex from a group photo of Cameron Surgical Specialty Company's officials and salesmen, gathered for their Annual Sales Convention.  To view the entire group photo, please click here.

July 1930

Alex and his two children, playing in the backyard at their Park Ridge home.

1930/31

Alex, in a formal photograph.

1930/31

Senior Faculty group photograph, featuring Alex, from the Northern Illinois College of Optometry, Chicago.

1930/31

Cartoon caricature of Alex, possibly by a student at the Northern Illinois College of Optometry. 

1930s

An artist's rendition of Cameron's Surgical Specialty Company, at 666 Division in Chicago.

January 4, 1937

Close up of Alex from a group photo of Cameron Surgical Specialty Company's officials and salesmen, gathered for their Annual Sales Convention.  To view the entire group photo, please click here.

1940s

Alex and a fellow physician, during medical trials in Utah.

1945

Alex, featuring one of his numerous pairs of glasses.

1950s

Cameron's Surgical Specialty Company, in its final years of operation.

1950s

Alex and his wife Grace, attending a formal dinner in Cuba.

1952

Alex, goofing around up at the Cameron Ranch, in Rivercourse (near Lloydminster), Alberta

1952

The Camerons, Alex & Grace.

December 1954

Alex and Grace, on New Year's Eve, 1954

June 1955

Alex and his son Alex (a.k.a. "Dad & Bud") in the backyard in Park Ridge.

 

September 1955

Alex and Grace in their Park Ridge backyard.

December 1955

Alex and Grace, hard at work, with the yearly accumulation of backyard leaves.

1961

Promotional advertisement for the Cameron Heartometer, in its updated case, produced by Alex's company.

March 4, 1962

Two invitations to a lecture by Alex at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto.  These lectures were provided to doctors and other medical professionals free of charge and were designed to inform, while promoting the Cameron Heartometer.

 

February 1965

A shocked Alex and a Hawaiian "hula girl," while visiting the Aloha State.

1965

Alex, his brother Bert (left) and Raymond Venance (right) duck hunting near Wainwright

August 1965

A familiar site to many within the medical trade show circuit for decades, Alex and a Cameron Heartometer.

1967

At another trade show, with the Heartometer.

October 1973

Alex, his siblings Georgina and Fred and other family members, at a Cameron Reunion in Canada

July 1978

Map of Chicago's Rosehill Cemetery, with directions to Alex & Grace's grave

2005

Guide to the Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre, with the location of Alex's old ice skates.