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Elizabeth Cameron (editor)
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Elizabeth Cameron (1851–1929) was a Canadian magazine editor.[1]
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Early life and education
Elizabeth Millar was born in Niagara, Ontario, Canada, 8 March 1851. Her early years were passed in Montreal and Kingston, and afterwards in London, Ontario.[1]
Educated in private and public schools, Cameron was an insatiable reader.[1]
Career
She established several reading clubs for women.[1]
She was strongly interested in temperance work. Cameron served as superintendent of the franchise department of the London Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and was of the opinion that intemperance would never be overthrown permanently till women were allowed to vote.[1]
Between 1890 and 1892, Cameron conducted a monthly paper, Wives and Daughters, a monthly supplement to the London Advertiser. Ethelwyn Wetherald served as assistant editor. It had a large circulation in the U.S. as well as in Canada. A call for articles -compositions for and about wives and daughters- was recorded in The Canadian Magazine of Science and the Industrial Arts, Patent Office Record.[2] As editor of that journal, Cameron's mission was to stimulate women to become, not only housekeepers, but to be better furnished mentally by systematic good reading, more intelligent as mothers, well informed concerning the chief wants of the day, and thoroughly equipped intellectually and spiritually for all the duties of woman of that era.[1][3]
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Personal life
On 30 September 1869, in London, Ontario, she married John Cameron, founder and conductor of the London Ontario Advertiser.[1]
In 1927, Elizabeth Cameron relocated to Evanston, Illinois where she died 17 November 1929. Interment was at Graceland Cemetery.[4][5]
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