(1874-29 March 1951), educationist. (A. C. Campbell, Alexander C. Campbell) Born presumably in the 4th Concession, Roxbrough Township, where his parents farmed, but his father was a Glengarrian and the family was much associated with the nearby Maxville and Dominionville area of GC. Parents: Malcolm Campbell and his wife Mary Robertson. After primary school at Dominionville, high school at Alexandria, Cornwall, and Toronto (Harbord Collegiate), he attended the University of Toronto (B.A. 1900 in mathematics and physics). To Manitoba, his home for the remainder of his life, he came in 1901, and there, after attending the provincial normal school, he was a high school teacher, Manitoba school inspector (1906-1910), and principal of St. John’s Technical High School, Winnipeg, to 1925, and then principal of Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute, Winnipeg, till he retired in 1941. He received an honorary degree (L.L.D.) from the University of Manitoba in 1943. He was a nephew of Peter S. Campbell and a nephew of the Dr Donald Campbell who was on the 1883 American expedition to search for Lieut. Greely and his Artic explorers. A. C. Campbell married Minnie MacEwen of Stormont County. (two children) He died at his home in Winnipeg. He was a Baptist.

Manitoba Legislative Library, Biography Scrapbook, B4 p. 71, B10 p. 176 (Winnipeg Free Press obituary) * Maxville (1991) 482-486 * Campbell (1983) 275, 281 * obituary of his father, Cornwall Freeholder 9 Feb. 1912, and of his mother Standard Freeholder 30 April 1932 (her son described as “prominent in educational circles in Winnipeg”) * named principal, GN 7 Jan. 1910 * honorary degree, SFH 20 May 1943