Hotelier.
Born in Scotland on 2 February 1854, he was proprietor of the Mansion House Hotel (695-697 Main Street, Winnipeg).
He and wife Elizabeth Carmichael (1863-1949) had a son and seven daughters: Mabel Elizabeth Campbell (1886-1982, wife of William Garroway Cairns, daughter-in-law of Henry John Cairns), Ida Mary Campbell (1887-1985, wife of George Wallace Sharp), Beatrice Campbell (1889-?, wife of William Parker Fess), Lillian Annabel Campbell (1892-?, wife of John Cox Weston), Clara Adeline Campbell (1894-?), John Clifford Campbell (1896-?), Myra Eva Campbell (1898-?), and Blanche Victoria Campbell (1900-1985, wife of Leo Charles Degagne). The family lived at 65 West Gate and had a summer cottage at Whytewold Beach. At the time of his death, he was living in Suite 17 of the Florence Apartments.
He died at Winnipeg on 26 August 1938 and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Castle House (65 West Gate, Winnipeg)
Birth registrations [Mabel Campbell, Beatrice Campbell, Lillian Campbell, Clara Adeline Campbell, Blanche Victori Campbell, John Clifford Campbell, Myrel Eva Campbell], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Cairns - Campbell,” Winnipeg Tribune, 8 April 1918, page 6.
Death registration [John Fayden Campbell], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Funeral today,” Winnipeg Tribune, 29 August 1938, page 10.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 30 August 1938, page 17.
“William Fess, city pioneer, dies in Texas,” Winnipeg Tribune, 8 March 1944, page 3.
“Mrs. J. Campbell, long resident here dies in Texas at 87,” Winnipeg Tribune, 15 January 1949, page 2.
Death registration [Mabel Elizabeth Cairns], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Blanche Victoria Campbell], Winnipeg Free Press, 25 July 1985, page 45.
Private Leo Charles Degagne, Canadian Great War Project.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 November 2023
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