Neil Cameron (Quebec politician)

Neil Cameron
MNA for Jacques-Cartier
In office 1989–1994
Preceded by	Joan Dougherty
Succeeded by	Geoffrey Kelley
Personal details
Born	Neil Murdo Cameron (1938-11-19)November 19, 1938 Queen's University
Profession	CEGEP history teacher

Neil Murdo Cameron (November 19, 1938 – December 19, 2019) was a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.

Background

Cameron was born in

, completing his degree, in mathematics with a minor in French Literature, in 1964.

He returned to university full-time in 1966–67, taking a qualifying year at Sir George Williams University in history and making the Dean's Honour List. He was admitted to graduate studies in history at McGill, taking his M.A. in history in 1969, and winning a McConnell Fellowship to continue Ph.D. studies in history. He carried out three years of Ph.D. research, including two years in England, a study of the British scientific elite in the first half of the 20th century, but never submitted his thesis, although publishing articles based on the research.

In 1973 he took a permanent position as a history teacher at

, in the history of science at Concordia Liberal Arts College and for McGill History Department.

From 1980, he began doing consulting work for Brendan Wood International, a financial research firm. In 1982 he became a freelance op-ed columnist and book reviewer, first for Montreal community newspapers, then for the Montreal Daily News, the Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Gazette. He also published a number of articles in the U. S. as well as Canada, and scholarly studies in three historical essay collections, Rutherford and Physics at the Turn of the Century (1979), Otto Hahn and the Birth of Nuclear Physics (1980) and Leadership and Responsibility (2005).

Cameron was married from 1970 to 1989 to Ruth Woodward. He has a stepson and stepdaughter. He died on December 19, 2019.^[1]

Provincial politics

In the

, and as a voting member of the Expert Committee on the Political Implications of Sovereignty. He prepared a minority report on the latter, Imagining Sovereignty/Souverainté d'Esprit, which was circulated to the major Canadian universities.

In 1993, he introduced Bill 199, a private member's bill which would have made English and French fully co-official languages in the province.^[2]

He continued to teach one course per year at John Abbott College throughout his term as an MNA.

Cameron was defeated by Liberal candidate Geoffrey Kelley in the 1994 provincial election.

References

External links

• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.