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Campbell,
George
By
Emeline Campbell Miller
George
Campbell was born in Bruce County, Ontario, 1866, and was educated in
Ontario. He came of a large family and was of Scotch
descent. He came to Manitoba in the eighties, to Killarney, by
train. When he landed, he had only one dollar and twenty
cents. He told this story many times.
He
went
north of Killarney and worked for John Clark in Bellafield district for
a short time. Then he went out to the west coast, near Seattle,
and worked in a logging camp, but only stayed there about a year.
He returned to Manitoba, went back to work for Mr. John Cark and for
John Hannah.
In
1893
he married Mary Jane Russell. He moved south of Killarney, buying
land from the Rollins brothers, N.E. quarter 14-2-17. Later he
bought land from T. O. Foster, S.E. quarter 13-2-17. This he
farmed for a few years, then he bought the William Fielding farm, East
half 23-2-17.
He
had
four children: one daughter, Mrs. Andrew Miller, living in
Killarney; three sons, Russell Campbell who lives on the Joe Johnston
farm, S.W. quarter 14-2-17 and S.E. quarter 15-2-17, Dr. Wilfred
Campbell, M.D., who lives in Medicine Hat, and Guy Campbell who lives
in Killarney.
In
early life, George Campbell and John Hannah worked as partners in a
threshing machine. It was not the modern kind. They
threshed together for a few years and they had the only threshing
machine about for a few years. In his early days of farming, Dad
would go back to Turtle Mountain and haul out logs which he would sell
to buy a few things.
His
religion was Presbyterian, and he was an elder in the church for a
number of years. In politics, he was a staunch Liberal. He
was always interested in the work and progress of the community.
He
was
one of the men who first started the Killarney Southern Manitoba
Fair. Also, he was a member of the Highview school board for many
years.
A
number of years later, he sold shares for the Grain Growers’
Elevator. He drove many miles to do this, and he would often have
one of the men on the board with him. This was the beginning of
what it is today.
In
later years, also, he helped and was a leader in forming the Manitoba
Pool Elevator. He was a director of the Killarney Association for
a good many years.
The
plight of the farmer in growing and selling grain and livestock was
always his foremost thought. In later years, he was a drover of
shipping cattle and hogs.
He
passed away in October 19946, at the age of seventy-nine.
Russell
Campbell, on 14-2-17, bought by his father, Geo. Campbell after
1893. Concerning this, Eldon Hannah says that John
Hannah bought 14-2-17 from the CPR and then sold it to George
Campbell. John Hannah was not the original owner. Rollins
and T. O. Foster were. John Hannah bought N.E. 15-2-17.
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