Located at John "Cariboo" Cameron's strike on Williams Creek at the outskirts of Barkerville. Labelled on Trutch's 1871 map of British Columbia and on Amos Bowman's 1885 & 1887 maps of the Cariboo Mining District and in his accompanying reports for Geological Survey of Canada. Long-since abandoned.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Cameron and his wife Sophia arrived at Victoria from Ontario in early March 1862; their small [infant ?] daughter died March 7, and was buried at Victoria's Quadra Street Burying Ground [now Pioneer Square Cemetery]. The Cameron's travelled to the Cariboo later that summer, where Sophia died of typhoid fever 23 October 1862, age 28. According to Robert Stevenson, Cameron's partner (and as recounted in Pioneeer Days in British Columbia, vol. 4), 90 miners attended Mrs. Cameron's funeral in Richfield. Cameron and Stevenson struck paydirt 2 months later at their claim on Williams Creek. Cameron eventually lost his fortune and had returned to Barkerville in the fall of 1888 hoping to locate another paying claim; died 7 November 1888 at Joe Mason's hotel in Barkerville; buried in the cemetery opposite his claim at Cameronton.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"Below this camp [Barkerville] is Cameronton, called so for a gentleman of that name who located the first claim there, in the winter of 1862, and which paid at the rate of about $1,000 a foot." (Cariboo Sentinel Supplement, 12 August 1865).

Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions