I was born on October 4th in Olivos, a suburb of Buenos Aires, and spent my childhood on a farm in the province of Sta. Fe. Until I was 11 years old I had English governess.
Then I wass sent a a boarder to St. Hilda's College, a school on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where English was taught up to secondary level.
I finished at St. Hilda's in 1939 and went to train as a nurse at The British Hospital, Buenos Aires. In 1942 I married Allan Cameron, an Argentine volunteer with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was killed when his plane crashed in 1943.
In 1954 I married Charlie Mackinnon the Australian manager of a property in Patagonia owned by the Argentina Sourthern Land Company. We had three daughters, Moira, Joan, and Flora.
When he retired, in 1980, we went to live in Esquel. Charlie died in 1996, and a year or two later I moved to Buenos Aires to be near our daughters.
Nora Mackinnon
