William Wilfred Campbell

1861 - 1918  (57 years)

• Name	William Wilfred Campbell
  Born	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1 Jan 1918	Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Cause: pneumonia? 1 week and heart failure
  Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region	Bef 2012	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Residence	123 King St. E., Kitchener, Waterloo Region
  	Miss Dunham, chief librarian of the local public library, gives a biography of the poet Wilfred Campbell, who was born here while his father, Rev. Thomas S. Campbell was incumbent of the Episcopal Church of the village, in 1861. This Church was then in a building on lower King St. which had formerly been the printing office of Henry Eby, publisher of the "Deutsche Canadier" newspaper, and of various Mennonite devotional books, etc. Many of you will remember the building, which stood until comparatively recently when it was replaced by the brick dwelling known as No. 123 King Street East.. Where was the parsonage, rented, as was also the church'97the first Episcopal church on Water Street, on the site of the present one, was built in 1862'97and consequently where the probable birth place of the poet, remains for the present a fact lost to history.
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-136538
  Person ID	I136538	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Rev. Thomas S. Campbell,   b. 1831, Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 22 Feb 1917, Wiarton, Amabel Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Matilda Francis Wright,   b. 10 Sep 1837, , England ,   d. 3 Jun 1923, Hepworth, Bruce Co., Ontario  (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F41697	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  William Wilfred Campbell, whose father was the rector of the Anglican Church at Berlin, where William was born, became one of Canada's most famous poets, and was recognized as the leader of the Ontario poets of his generation. He attended the University of Toronto and the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was ordained as a minister in the Church of England in 1886. He had a parish in New Hampshire and in 1988 became rector at St. Stephen, New Brunswick. He left the ministry in 1891 and entered the civil service. His first volume of verse, Lake Lyrics, was published in 1889. He published five other books of poetry; four verse-plays; three novels and a descriptive work, The Canadian Lake Region, and edited the Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. Campbell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1893. One of his best-known poems was Indian Summer. Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

  
  

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  [S713] Vit - ON - Death Registration, death certificate 47122 (1918), William Wilfrid Campbell. William Wilfrid Campbell d. 1 Jan 1918 City View, aged 56, occupation civil servant, s/o Thomas S. Campbell and Matilda F. Wright, cause: pneumonia? 1 week and heart failure [S220] Waterloo Region Hall of Fame Waterloo Region Hall of Fame.

  
  

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  Born - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: pneumonia? 1 week and heart failure - 1 Jan 1918 - Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region - Bef 2012 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - - 123 King St. E., Kitchener, Waterloo Region  = Link to Google Earth