Campbell, Dr. Maurice

Year Inducted / Année Intronisé:

1976

Province / Province:

Quebec

Category / Catégorie:

Builder, President

Biography / Biographie:

Maurice Campbell was a Canadian curler from Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

Campbell was born November 28, 1919 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. Educated at the University of Montreal, he joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1943 and completed his medical degree in 1945 and was subsequently posted in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine and practiced in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec.

Dr. Campbell, a member of the Governor General’s Curling Club, served as CCA president for the 1970-71 curling season. In addition to his work as a builder of the sport of curling, he was an active participant, and threw lead rocks for the Quebec team skipped by Bob Lahaie at the 1958 Macdonald Brier in Victoria.

Dr. Campbell also was active in the Canadian Branch of the Royal Caledonian Club, and led the Canadian contingent on its 1970 Strathcona Cup tour of Scotland.

His efforts behind the scenes on behalf of curling in his home province of Quebec (including being instrumental in the establishment of the Quebec Curling Federation in the mid-1970s) were saluted in 2007 when he received the Prix Hommage Spécial (Special Homage Award) from Curling Quebec.

He was President of the Quebec Curling Association for the 1963-64 season. He served as president of the Canadian Curling Association for the 1970-71 season and was named to the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1976.

Campbell died in Trois-Rivières on July 4, 2014