Dr. Campbell was a member of the volunteer militia from 1854 and
in 1860 was appointed assistant surgeon of the First Battalion,
Volunteer Rifles of Canada, now the First Battalion. He served
with his regiment on the eastern frontier, being at Hemingford
and at Durham during the Fenian raid in 1866. In the fall of that
year he was promoted to the rank of surgeon of the regiment and
again during the brief Fenian raid of 1871 was with his command
at Pigeon Hill, at St. Armands and St. Johns. After being for a
great many years surgeon of the Prince of Wales Rifles he was
appointed, on the formation of the Regular Canadian Militia, to
the office of surgeon of the Infantry School Corps at St. Johns,
Province of Quebec, and held the position for nineteen years,
being then retired at the age limit with the rank of surgeon
lieutenant colonel. At that time the regiments were known and
still are as the Royal Regiments Canadian Infantry. In 1894 he
established the V. R. I. Magazine and became its first editor.
Lennoxville conferred upon him the honorary degree of D. C. L. in
1895. Two years later his son, Dr. Rollo Campbell, was appointed
demonstrator of anatomy in Bishop’s College. Another matter of
interest and importance in the life record of Dr. Campbell was
that he held for forty-three years the position of chief medical
examiner for the New York Life Insurance Company at Montreal and
his son, Dr. Rollo Campbell, was his assistant. He was honorary
president of the Military Institute for several years and was
one of the founders of the Western Hospital of Montreal. He was
called the father of that institution and two years ago the
hospital placed a very handsome bronze tablet to his memory in
the institution. At the time of his death he was dean of the
medical faculty of Bishop’s College at Montreal. His degrees were
M. A., M. D. and L. R. C. P. of London. Honor and distinction
came to him in many ways, and at all times he bore his honors
with becoming modesty.
Dr. Campbell was a liberal conservative in politics. He belonged
to the Montreal Military Institute and was a past master of the
Victoria Lodge of Masons. Of scholarly attainments, finding keen
pleasure in scientific research and actuated, too, by a broad
humanitarian spirit, his professional service as practitioner,
educator and writer was of marked value to the public and
constituted a notable contribution to the world’s work in the
field of medical and surgical progress.
CLEOPHAS EDWARD LECLERC.
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