Lawyer, municipal official.
Born at Argyle on 9 March 1898, son of Alexander M. Campbell and Mary McNabb, he attended Brant School and Stonewall School. While studying law he articled to the firm of Munson, Allan, Laird, and Davis. He graduated from the Manitoba Law School in 1923 and, after three years practicing law in Winnipeg, he moved to Teulon in 1926. He was made a Queen’s Counsel in 1953. He retired in 1968. He served on the Teulon municipal council, including two terms as Mayor (1932-1933, 1937-1938), and on the Teulon Hospital Board. He was a Conservative candidate for the Rockwood constituency in the 1941 provincial general election. On 14 July 1928, he married Mary Gertrude Burrow (?-1975) at Stonewall. They had no children. He was a member of the Teulon United Church. He died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 19 May 1985 and was buried in the Argyle Cemetery.
Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“City woman first QC in Manitoba,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 January 1953.
Obituary [Mary Gertrude Campbell], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 September 1975, page 33.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 21 May 1985, page 50.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 November 2022
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