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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
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1904
The Gladstone (Manitoba) Crescent Baseball Team. Alex is
the second young man (from the left) seated in the middle row. |
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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1923
Alex and his first born child, Dorothy, near their home in
Chicago. |
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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. |
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January
6, 1928
Cameron's Surgical Specialty
Company's banquet, during their Annual Sales Convention, at
Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club. |
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1928
Alex, holding his son Alexander
Wilnor Cameron, outside their new home in Park Ridge, Illinois. |
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August 1929
Alex and his son Alex, once again outside their Park Ridge home |
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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. |
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July 1930
Alex and his two children,
playing in the backyard at their Park Ridge home. |
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1930/31
Alex, in a formal photograph. |
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1930/31
Senior Faculty group photograph,
featuring Alex, from the Northern Illinois College of Optometry,
Chicago. |
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1930/31
Cartoon caricature of Alex,
possibly by a student at the Northern Illinois College of
Optometry. |
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1930s
An artist's rendition of Cameron's Surgical Specialty Company,
at 666 Division in Chicago. |
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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. |
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1940s
Alex and a fellow physician, during medical
trials in Utah. |
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1945
Alex, featuring one of his numerous pairs of glasses. |
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1950s
Cameron's Surgical Specialty Company, in its final years of
operation. |
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1950s
Alex and his wife Grace, attending a formal dinner in Cuba. |
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1952
Alex, goofing around up at the Cameron Ranch, in Rivercourse
(near Lloydminster), Alberta |
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1952
The Camerons, Alex & Grace. |
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December
1954
Alex and Grace, on New Year's
Eve, 1954 |
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June 1955
Alex and his son Alex (a.k.a.
"Dad & Bud") in the backyard
in Park Ridge.
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September 1955
Alex and Grace in their Park Ridge backyard. |
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December 1955
Alex and Grace, hard at work, with the yearly accumulation of
backyard leaves. |
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1961
Promotional advertisement for
the Cameron Heartometer, in its updated case, produced by Alex's
company. |
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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.
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February
1965
A shocked Alex and a Hawaiian "hula girl," while
visiting the Aloha State. |
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1965
Alex, his brother Bert (left)
and Raymond Venance (right) duck hunting near Wainwright |
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August
1965
A familiar site to many within the medical trade show circuit
for decades, Alex and a Cameron Heartometer. |
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1967
At another trade show, with the
Heartometer. |
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October
1973
Alex, his siblings Georgina and
Fred and other family members, at a Cameron Reunion in Canada |
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July
1978
Map of Chicago's Rosehill
Cemetery, with directions to Alex & Grace's grave |
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2005
Guide to the Barr Colony
Heritage Cultural Centre, with the location of Alex's old ice
skates. |
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