Colin Campbell (Ontario Politician)
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Colin Alexander "Collie" Campbell (17 January 1901 – 25 December 1978) was a
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mining engineer, politician and curling administrator. Campbell was the president of the International Curling Federation from 1968 to 1978 and served as a
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member of the
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. He was born in Shedden, Ontario.


Biography

Campbell attended school at Lawrence Station and high school in Dutton before further studies at Queen's University. His father was active in local politics for more than three decades. He was elected to Parliament at the Frontenac—Addington riding in a by-election on 24 September 1934 and re-elected in the 1935 federal election. Campbell resigned on 11 August 1937 before the end of the 18th Canadian Parliament to enter provincial politics at the 1937 Ontario election. He was defeated on election day in the provincial district of Addington, but subsequently contested a by-election in
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after newly elected member Richard McMeekin resigned. He served as Minister of Public Works under premier Mitchell Hepburn, but left provincial politics at the 1943 Ontario election. Campbell served with the Royal Canadian Engineers during
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and was awarded the
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in 1943 and the
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in 1945. Following his time in office, Campbell served as president of the Northern Ontario Curling Association, and then president of the
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from 1947 to 1948 and the International Curling Federation (now the World Curling Federation) from 1968 until his death in 1978. He was inducted into the
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in 1973, and the WCF Hall of Fame in 1990. The Collie Campbell Memorial Award for sportsmanship at the World Men's Curling Championship is named in his honour. On the ice, he played
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for Ontario at the 1951 Macdonald Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship.


Personal life

Campbell was married to Vera Smith and had five children. He died at the
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.


See also

* Canadian pipe mine


Notes


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External links

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