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D. Ewen Cameron was born in Scotland and received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow in 1924. He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary. In 1929, Cameron came to Canada to work in the Brandon Mental Hospital. In 1936, he became Director of Research at Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, and in 1938 was appointed Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Albany State Medical School. At Albany, Cameron was known for research on sensory deprivation, memory and aging. In 1943, he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry at McGill and director of the newly-created Allan Memorial Institute. On the clinical side, he established in-patient and out-patient services and introduced the practice of a day hospital. He developed laboratories for psychiatric research and established psychiatric training in undergraduate curricula and teaching hospital programmes. In 1945, Cameron was appointed to the American panel to examine Rudolf Hess at the Nuremberg trials. Cameron’s time at the Allen Memorial Institution is today widely recognized for the unethical medical experimentation that Cameron oversaw, as well as the development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the US Central Intelligence Agency, known as the “Montreal experiments.” After retiring from the Allan Memorial Institute in 1964, Cameron returned to Albany as Research Professor at the Albany Medical School and Director of the Laboratory for Research in Psychiatry and Aging at the Veterans' Administration Hospital.

Duncan Cameron was born in 1764 in Glen Moriston, Scotland, and died in 1848 in Williamstown, Upper Canada. He was the son of Alexander Cameron and Margaret McDonell. Cameron moved to Quebec in 1785 and entered the fur trade as a clerk for Alexander Shaw and Gabriel Cotte in the Lake Nipigon region. Between 1807 and 1812, Cameron married an unknown Ojibwa woman connected to the loon clan in the Nipigon area (with probability that the marriage was “a la façon du pays”) sometime between 1807 and 1812, with whom he had a family. In 1820, he married Margaret McLeod, daughter of Captain McLeod of Hamen. They had one daughter and three sons, and one of the sons named Sir Roderick William became active in the shipping trade to Australia. Cameron Street in Winnipeg is named after Duncan Cameron.

Hugh Cameron was born in Breadalbane, Scotland in 1786. He was a mill wright and farmer who lived in the townships of Hinchinbrooke and Huntington, Quebec.