• Age: 16
• Grade: 11

Bright and promising as a student, George Cameron was sent to live with his sister in Boston while he attended a prestigious Latin school and later the Boston School of Law. That was what his mother wanted for him and his brother, Charley. It was what any well-bred family would want for an intelligent son destined for greater things than his humble New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, upbringing. On his journey to find his voice among the great poets of the 19th century, George had to leave behind his first love, a muse who haunted his thoughts and fuelled his passion for poetry throughout his life.

Law clerk, journalist, poet, George’s life often seemed to fall short of the dreams of fame he secreted in his private journals, yet his poetry remained ever-present in a mind churning with words and feeling.

George Cameron teamed up with Oscar Telgmann to write the longest-running Canadian opera, Leo: The Royal Cadet. It was his steadfast brother Charley who shared George’s work in the posthumous publication of Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death (1887).

Tracey Rombough is an award-winning educator (retired) and writer from Kingston, Ontario. Tracey won the Royal Reel Award at the Canadian International Film Festival (2014) for a screenplay based on Immortal Air.

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