Lawyer, judge, satirist.
Born at East Kildonan on 15 July 1892, son of Neil Campbell and Barbara Fraser (1848-1930), he graduated in Arts at the University of Manitoba in 1918 and received a law degree while serving overseas with the 76th Battery of Canadian Field Artillery.
Called to the Manitoba Bar in 1920, he was elected President of the Manitoba Bar Association in 1942 and became a judge of Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench in September 1947. He served as a Bencher for the Law Society of Manitoba (1944-1947) and was made a King’s Counsel in 1942.
On 26 December 1917, he married Petrina Flora Isabel Wilson (1892-1974) at Winnipeg. They had three children: Andrew Lorne Campbell, Allan Barrie Campbell, and Barbara Campbell (wife of John L. Carpenter). He was a President of the Blackstone Club and Lord Selkirk Association of Rupert’s Land. He was one of the creators of “The Diary of Harold Lex,” a fictitious journal that ran in the Winnipeg newspapers for several years during the 1940s.
He died during surgery on 13 February 1963 and was buried in the Old Kildonan Cemetery.
Birth registration [Arnold Munro Campbell], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
“New Year’s honors,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 January 1942, page 4.
“Dysart to Appeal Court; A. M. Campbell new judge,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 September 1947, page 1.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 14 February 1963.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 August 2024
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