Charles Sandwith Campbell

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Charles Sandwith Campbell,

City of Montreal the Campbell Concerts and Campbell Parks. He was a Governor of McGill University
.

Early life and education

Campbell's childhood home in Ottawa

Born in 1858 at

Humphrey Sandwith
.

Campbell grew up in

Laval University, where he graduated avec grande distinction. In 1877, he continued his legal education in England at Trinity College, Cambridge, entering Lincoln's Inn the following year. He graduated B.A., LL.B. in 1881.[2][3]

Career

In 1884, Campbell returned to Canada and entered the Montreal law firm of William Badgley and John Abbott, becoming a senior partner in 1887. In 1889, he and two other former Laval students, Frederick Edmund Meredith and James Bryce Allan (1861–1945) K.C. (son of Andrew Allan and brother of Lady Meredith), took over from the old senior partners and formed the firm of Campbell, Meredith & Allan.

In 1901 the firm of

Sir Hugh Allan's Merchants Bank of Canada; Molson Bank; Montreal Street Railway; Montreal Trust and Deposit Co.; American Tobacco Company, of Canada; John De Kuyper & Son; Elder & Dempster Shipping; Hamburg American Packet Shipping Co.; Ocean Accident and the Guarantee Corporation. Today the firm is known as Borden Ladner Gervais
.

Campbell concerned himself mainly with corporate and commercial affairs, rarely entering into litigation. He served as an officer with the Montreal Garrison Artillery and was on the executive board of the Montreal Liberal-Conservatives Association.

Campbell served as a director of many client companies including the Montreal Terminal Railway, and he sat on the board of Governors of

Stanbridge East, Quebec in the Eastern Townships, where he continued his interest in scientific farming. For the remainder of his life he spent his summers in Montreal
. He is buried in the Stanbridge Ridge Cemetery in Stanbridge East.

Campbell Concerts and Parks

F.E. Meredith (right), presents the keys for the new Campbell playground (formerly Sohmer Park) in the East End working class area of Montreal to Mayor Médéric Martin (left) in 1926.

Charles Campbell was unmarried when he died in 1923, leaving an estate worth $2 million. The executor of the will was his former business partner and closest friend, F.E. Meredith. After provision had been made for the upkeep of Campbell's horse, Kodak, the remainder of the will was divided into five parts.

The first part of his estate went to the Montreal General Hospital; the second to the Kingston General Hospital and the third to various relatives and friends.[5] The remaining two parts, worth one million dollars, were left to the City of Montreal. One part was to purchase parkland "in congested parts of the City of Montreal to make playgrounds for young children not too far from their parents abodes" and the second part was to provide an income to be used "to encourage the playing on summer evenings of bands of music in the public places handy to the congested parts of the city".[6] In 1949, the Montreal Herald reported,

"Nobody has named a street nor a park for him. No bandsman has dedicated a composition, nor civic body erected a monument to him. But Charles Sandwith Campbell has left his own enduring monument, sounding forever in the ears of a million Montrealers, his heirs at large." Today there are three Campbell Parks in Montreal and concerts in his name are still given at no charge for the people of Montreal.

See also

References

  1. ^ Edgar Andrew Collard. "Those Campbell Band Concerts" - Montreal Gazette, July 23, 1977
  2. ^ "Campbell, Charles Sandwith (CMBL877CS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Doyle Klyn. "Legacy of Music: Thanks to an Unusual Bequest, these Montrealers enjoy outdoor concerts on Summer Evenings ". Ottawa Citizen, July 3, 1954.
  4. ^ "Montreal Races". Winnipeg Free Press, September 13, 1913 - Page 19. via Newspaper Archives
  5. ISBN 978-0-7735-9230-8
    .
  6. ^ "Campbell Concerts". Montreal Gazette, June 23, 1936.

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