(21 July 1839-2 Dec. 1944), fisherman, farmer, centenarian. Born on Isle of Skye, Scotland. Parents: John Campbell and his wife Christina Nicholson. Alexander worked in his youth on his father’s fishing boat and on boats out of Glasgow harbour, then at the age of 19 came to Canada with his family, who settled at DeSalabery, just north of Harrington Township in the County of Argenteuil, Que. At this early stage of his life for some years Alexander Campbell worked for the Hamilton Lumber Company. He farmed at Harrington, Que. and afterwards at Baltics Corners in GC. He retired to Maxville in 1920. He was a Gaelic speaker. Presbyterian. He married (1) Catherine Dewar (d.1899), and (2) Jane Urquhart (d. 1924). Campbell is said to have been known in Maxville as “Maxville’s Grand Old Man.” His longevity seems to have made him something of a celebrity in the GC area of Eastern Ontario in his later years. At a time when family recollections had faded and most Glengarrians, apart from what they read in the Canadian press, had only a sketchy awareness of the old life in Scotland and on its stormy waters and rocky coasts, Campbell, who lived to be 105, must have seemed a fascinating figure from their own romantic past. Two of his sisters are said to have lived to be over one hundred.

Standard Freeholder 4 & 5 Dec. 1944, Glengarry News 8 Dec. 1944 * SFH 21 July 1937, 21 July 1939, 21 July 1941, 21 July 1942, on his 98th, 100th, 102nd, 103rd birthday, with biog., data, portrait * “Alex. J. Campbell Pioneer Glengarrian Reaches 100,” GN 28 July 1939 (interview, biog. data) repr. from Ottawa Citizen * Maxville (1991) 321, 855-857 (includes data on descendants, also photograph) * Campbell (1983) 261-273 (biography, brother, descendants). And p. 261 for useful notes on location and geography of DeSalabery and Harrington County * Campbell remembered, Gordon Winter’s column, GN 14 Dec. 1994, 27 Dec. 1995 * For the failure noted in this entry of Glengarrians to retain links with Scotland, see also MacMillan, Kirk 56, and Royce MacGillivray, The Slopes of the Andes (1990) 62.