Matilda Francis Wright

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• Name: Matilda Francis Campbell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-145660

Matilda — Rev. Thomas S. Campbell. Thomas was born 1831, Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario, Canada; died 22 Feb 1917, Wiarton, Amabel Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 123 King St. E., Kitchener, Waterloo Region
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-136538
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

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

Residence:
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.