Agnes Deans Cameron travels to the Arctic Ocean
Agnes Deans Cameron, about 1911. BC Archives, Item A-05682
1908
After a 25 year teaching career, Agnes Deans Cameron, along with her niece Jessie Brown, travelled to the Arctic Ocean in 1908. Cameron was a teacher, writer, lecturer and adventurer. Her book — The New North — vividly described her trip, and her lecture tour allowed many to hear about her northern adventures. Cameron also supported numerous gender equality causes, including pay equity and suffrage, or voting rights, for women, and was a dedicated educational reformer and immigration “booster.”
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