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[ca. 1886 - [19-?] ] (Creation)
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- Campbell, William Wilfred, 1861-1918
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3 cm of textual records
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William W. Campbell was born at Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario, June 1, 1861. Educated at The University of Toronto and at Cambridge, Mass., he was ordained to the Church of England ministry in 1885 and soon afterwards was appointed to a parish in New England. Returning to Canada in 1888, he became Rector of St. Stephen, N.B. In 1891 he retired from the Church and moved to Ottawa, where he began to write short poems in a village paper, after which he became a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, the Century and Harper's. He had a number of volumes of his poems published. He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada and died in 1918.
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Undated documents and published poems written by William Wilfred Campbell; s letter by J.S. McCuaig, dated May 17, 1886, about a request for the Crown's recognition of John A. Macdonald; resolutions about a meeting of the Liberal Conservative Association at Town Hall Cherry Valley in 1886; photocopy of an undated pamphlet titled “The Dominion Campaign! Sir John Macdonald on the Questions at Issue Before the People: The Premier's Great Speech Before the Workingmen of Toronto”.
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Acquired by the Library as part of the McLaughlin Collection in 1970.
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- English
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