Businessman.
Born in Ontario on 22 March 1854, he arrived in Brandon in 1883 and became involved in grain buying. He was Secretary for the Brandon Board of Trade for many years and its President for two years, Chairman of the Board of License Commissioners (nine years), and a member of the Western Grain Standards Board (35 years) and was its Chairman for many years. He was an early proponent of the Brandon, Saskatchewan and Hudson’s Bay Railway.
He served as Brandon's Postmaster (1901-1912), a police magistrate (four years), manager of the Brandon branch of the Royal Bank of Canada (four years), Chairman of the Patriotic Fund Committee, President of the Winter Fair holding company, and manager of the 1919 Victory Loan campaign. He and wife Annie Margaret Preston (c1861-1900) had three children: Evelyn Clare Campbell (1889-?), Blanche Emaline Campbell (1892-?), and Kenneth Preston Campbell (1897-?).
He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia around 1923 and died there on 23 November 1938. He was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery.
Birth registrations [Evelyn Clare Campbell, Blanche Campbell, Kenneth Preston Campbell], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Annie Margaret Campbell], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
Death registration [Kenneth Campbell], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
“Kenneth Campbell pioneer citizen dies in Vancouver,” Brandon Sun, 26 November 1938, page 1.
Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 August 2024
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