(25 Nov. 1787-9 Nov. 1853), fur trader. He is said to have been born at River Beaudette, Lake St. Francis, in GC (Wallace & MDict), but the present town of River Beaudette is just outside GC. However, the actual river runs through GC. His parents had moved to Charlottenburgh Township by 1790 and remained there a year or two before moving on to New Johnstown [now Johnstown, Ont. near Prescott]. Parents: Alexander Campbell (Dundas County’s first MLA) and his wife Magdalena Van Sice, both U E Loyalists from Albany County, N. Y.. Colin Campbell was a fur trader mainly in the Athabaska district, first with the North West Company from 1804, and afterwards with the HBC. He retired 1853. He married Elizabeth McGillivray, the daughter by an Indian wife of of the Hon. John McGillivray. He was the brother of John Duncan Campbell. Apart from this marriage and his near local birth, he held a mortgage on his brother’s Cornwall property (which he forgave) and had his son educated there at Inverarden. Colin Campbell died at the Red River settlement.

Wallace, MDict * Campbell (1983), 440-443 * Johnson 180 * Armstrong 94 * Dictionary of Canadian Biography has minor references. only