John met Judy when they were both employed by Ontario Hydro, (then the Provincial Electric power authority). John is a licensed machinist and instrument maker and has long used these skills to turn his hobby of sailing and boating into a lucrative part-time business of repairing boats and/or building accessories for them. (He built and sold his first catamaran, then took up sail making and the manufacture of custom boat parts and the refurbishing of various other boating components). For several years, John was also an assistant leader in the Boy Scout movement in the Brampton area and was also a successful boys' soccer coach.
John has long demonstrated he is an 'idea' man with amazing design and problem solving capabilities. He has the uncanny skill to mentally visualize and design complex mechanical parts needed to solve a problem, the ability to translate this 'vision' into a computerized drawing -- and then -- use his machinist and mechanical skills to actually make the part or adjustment he has just mentally designed. As a result, his (former) employer now holds patent rights on several tools and procedures John designed and built over the years and which are presently being used throughout Canada and the USA in the refurbishing of nuclear power plants. These specialized skills won him wide-spread recognition by his then employer, and more importantly, a well-earned job promotion at that time.
John had long yearned to work for himself in his own business, and in early 2010 he got his chance. After some 32 years of employment with Ontario Hydro and its successor company Kinectrics, he took early retirement to enter into a joint-partnership business with a long-time friend and former co-worker. Together they have set up their own registered company where they design and manufacture a variety of custom parts and accessories for wheelchairs and other medical items which are then sold to individuals, hospitals and other institutions across Canada and internationally.
In the family tradition, Judy also became a leader in the Girl Guide movement until marriage and family commitments intervened. Later, when her own daughters were of an age to join, she went back as a leader for several more years. (She was sworn in as a leader for the second time on the evening following her mother's funeral, and as it was very meaningful to her, she wore her mother's leader's pin then and throughout the remainder of her second stay in the Girl Guide movement). Judy worked in full time employment as an administrative assistant in the former Supply Division of Ontario Hydro for fifteen years and this was where she met her future husband John. She retired to assist her mother during her last few months and also to care for her then young family in Brampton where the family resides. At the same time, for the next four years Judy also provided home daycare for several families while continuing volunteer work both with the Girl Guides and her children's schools, while also taking part in their activities.
Judy then took on part-time work for the Peel District School Board and within three years became full time and soon afterwards moved up to Office Manager at one of the largest Elementary Schools in Brampton. Her hard work and dedication was rewarded in 2012 when she won the "Excellence in Education" award for the Peel Region School Board which was presented to her by the Premier of Ontario. The family also fostered puppies for The Lion's Club "Seeing Eye" program and worked with 10 dogs in succession. However, when their 5th dog was later retired from his "Canine Vision" service and needed a permanent placement, they ended the puppy fostering part of the program to adopt dog #5 and supply him with a retirement home location. It has also been gratifying for the family to see the dogs which 'graduated' being successfully placed with needy handicapped recipients and they have kept in touch with many of them. As she looks forward to future retirement from the School Board, Judy is working towards a new career as a part-time travel consultant and has become accredited with several cruise lines as she currently builds up her client list.
Like her older siblings, Amanda also maintained high scholastic averages throughout all her elementary school years. She achieved letters of recognition for Honours from Grade 6 through Grade 12. Amanda also joined the Girl Guides and still remains an active member with her Brampton Ranger Unit. Like her sister, she has also traveled extensively with Guiding groups and has also been awarded her Canada Cord. During middle and high school years, Amanda always enjoyed her music and played the Flute in the school band. She also became very interested in Theatre arts during this time and had the second lead in the "Wizard of Oz" and was also in the school production of "Grease".
Amanda is also a serious competitor in team sports and was on both the Girls Wrestling and Lacrosse Teams for all four years of high school. During high school she also held a part-time job for 3 years at a local Veterinary Hospital and in her final year also taught swimming lessons for the City of Brampton. She graduated from High School in June, 2009 with a scholarship to Brock University to study concurrent education. Amanda maintained her high academic average and was successful in receiving a second scholarship for year two. She also worked part-time jobs at an Animal Emergency Hospital as well as a local veterninary clinic to help pay for her schooling. In June of 2014, Amanda graduated from Brock University with a Bach. of Arts Degree, (Honours), and a Bach. of Education Degree, (with First Class Standing).
Norm was employed by the same medical supply and hospital equipment company for his entire working life. Starting in the stock room right out of school, he first learned the business, then later demonstrated and sold medical equipment and supplies to Toronto area hospitals. In retirement, Norm enjoys his wood-working projects.
Cathy died at home of a massive heart attack. After cremation, a private family memorial service was held on 21 July 2001. Her ashes were later scattered at the family cottage.
Born in the Oakville-Trafalgar Hospital
Ralph was a Flying Instructor with the RCAF during WW II. After the war, he went back to school and became an Optometrist. He set up practice in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba where he operated his own business for many years. Ralph was an active member of the local Rotary Club as well as a School Trustee in Portage. After selling his business he retired to White Rock, B.C.
Maree was born in her mother's family home in Gairloch, Scotland during a visit home by her mother. Her mother had long been enchanted with the natural beauty of the area around "Loch Maree" in Scotland, hence the name, so the spelling of "Maree" is correct and not a "typo". (That said, Maree was never too pleased with her mother's choice of "Euphemia" for her second name). Maree is a dedicated duplicate bridge player who now holds "Life Master" status and was willing to travel almost anywhere at any time to participate in a tournament. She now resides in a nursing home in Surrey, BC.
TWIN: sister of Elaine. Janice was by far the smaller of the two, born very prematurely and not expected to survive. Her birth weight was less than two pounds and she remained in hospital for close to six months.
Originally a tool and die maker, Ron went back to school, acquired a teaching certificate and became a "shop" teacher in local area high schools until his retirement. After the death of his wife Elaine, Ron had the family surname legally changed to Wilson. This was the name used by their daughter Sandra until her marriage. Ron later remarried -- this time to a divorcee with no less than five daughters!
Elaine took her own life in her home in Kitchener, Ontario just before Christmas in 1968. She had been on a number of medications for a serious kidney infection for some time and it is believed some sort of drug misadventure or overdose was the root cause of her action.
David was born in the Oakville-Trafalgar Hospital. He and his wife Joanne enjoyed a "fantasy honeymoon". They eloped and were married in Juneau while on an Alaskan cruise onboard the S.S. Rotterdam.
He is listed on the 1861 census at Achourk farm with his wife and four children then born. Donald and Isabella had a family of 5 daughters and 4 sons. They lived at "Achourk" in one of the three or four croft houses which earlier was part of a small farm on a hill at the eastern end of Loch Ascog. Donald worked at the gunpowder mill at Millhouse and is listed as a "gunpowder maker" on the 1881 census taken at "Achourk Farm." This small village housed the work force for the powder works built in 1836, which supplied some of the munitions for the Crimean and the Boer wars. A dam on Loch Ascog at that time supplied the water power to operate the mill. Birth record LDS Batch #C100051.
Birth record: LDS C115515.
Birth record LDS Batch Number: 7626418.
Reportedly died at an "early age". Birth record C115181.
Birth record C: 115181.
A retired Metropolitan Toronto Police Officer. His granddaughter, and her husband, are now also with the Metropolitan Toronto Police. John and his brother Robert both married MacKenzie sisters. Marriage25.
Both her Christening & Birth Certificates confirm "Maggie" was her given name. However, it was a name she apparently didn't like as she chose to use and was known publicly, as Margaret, or the nickname Peggy. She immigrated to Canada in 1925 with her sister Isabella (Isa) when Isa was coming to Canada to marry Robert Campbell. It was at this time Peggy was introduced to and eventually married, Robert's brother John.
For many years, Norma worked in Washington, DC, as a secretary in the World Bank, (a financial subsidiary of the United Nations). Norma returned to Canada after her retirement where she purchased her mother's former home in east-end Toronto.
Birth record LDS Film #104465. Marriage record LDS: M137921.
Birth record LDS Batch: #P010516.
Birth record LDS: C137921.
Birth record LDS: C146341
Birth record LDS: C146341.
Birth record LDS: C146342.
Birth record LDS: C146342.
Birth record LDS: C146342.
There is no known relationship, except this marriage, between what are otherwise, two separate "Campbell" families.
Flora was her Christening name, but she was known as "Flossie". Her maiden surname was "Campbell" before her marriage to George Campbell, although there is no known family connection between what are apparently otherwise two separate Campbell families. Flora's cremation ashes were scattered near the family homestead close by the ruins of Ascog castle.
After the death of his first wife Janet, due to childbirth complications, Archibald left his daughter Marion with his mother who raised her as her own. Archibald later immigrated to Canada where he married Bertha and started a second family. (See notes for Janet and his son Kenneth).
She died from the effects of giving birth to her first-born, a daughter Marion. Janet's parents had not forgiven Archibald for their daughter's pregnancy before their marriage and they refused to give shelter to their new-born granddaughter Marion. Archibald now took his new-born daughter by boat to his mother's house. His mother was then in the final stages of pregnancy with her 14th child, (Archibald's youngest brother Dugal was born shortly afterwards). Archibald mother then raised Marion as her own. Later, Archibald immigrated to Canada and remarried where he raised a son, Kenneth Campbell. It is reported that the first (and as far as is known the only time), Kenneth went to Scotland, he met his 1/2 sister, (whom he previously didn't know he had), until the relationship was explained to him by his aunt Flora Campbell.