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With the success of her 1909 book聽,听Agnes Cameron became the first celebrated BC-born author. She had been hired by the Western Canada Immigration Association to promote immigration to Western Canada, and the book was an account of a聽聽she and her niece took from Chicago to the Arctic Ocean. It was her only book, though聽聽many articles for magazines such as聽Pacific Monthly, The Canadian Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Educational Journal of Western Canada,听and聽The Coast.
Although Cameron was best known as an author, she began her working life as a teacher at the age of sixteen, first in Victoria, where she was born and lived most of her life, then Comox, and in 1882, in Granville Townsite, better known as Gastown. Cameron was ambitious and took life seriously, but a notice聽聽suggests she had a sense of humour: "Irate parents seen only after 3 p.m."
Agnes Cameron was聽, but聽聽that women's right to political equality was based on their superior morality. 鈥淎nyone with reason has a right to help in determining what laws shall govern him,鈥� she argued. 鈥淲omen have reason, and, therefore, should vote.鈥�
Cameron held equally strong views about education, preferring a broad, liberal education over vocational training, which put her at odds with groups that promoted subjects such as home economics and industrial arts as the main thrust of the school curriculum. 鈥淚f you are a parent or a teacher,"聽, "don鈥檛 strive to fashion your children into one stereotyped pattern. A child鈥檚 individuality is the divine spark in him. Let it burn.鈥�
After her teaching gig in Gastown, Cameron went back to Victoria where she became BC's first female high school principal. As an educator, she was well liked and respected in the community, but ruffled the feathers of the Victoria School Board, which twice attempted聽 and succeeded in having her teaching licence聽.聽Agnes Cameron never taught again, and instead focused on travelling and writing. She聽聽in Victoria in 1912.
Source: Photo ca. 1890 by Hannah H Maynard, City of 麻豆传媒映画Archives聽
