Cameron Hills
Hill
84 N
Approximately 400 km north-west of Fort Chipewyan.
These hills were officially named in 1921 for Maxwell George Cameron, an assistant on a survey crew. He later became chief cartographer of the Surveys and Mapping Branch, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys in Ottawa, 1948-1951. In 1915 J.R. Akins, DLS,
had recorded Cutknife Hills as the translation of a name supplied by a group of Behcho
Widen-or-chad-Aden Slavey living at Bistcho Lake, whom he met while surveying. In the early 1950s, the Alberta and Northwest Territories Boundary Commission mentioned it was formerly known as Eagle Mountain. Today, the west side of the hills is referred to by some trappers in the vicinity of Bistcho Lake as Bistcho Hills. The east side is called D-agah Zahih by residents at Indian Cabins and Meander River. This is a descriptive Slavey name that translates as "Hills you can see a long ways from."