Marjorie Wilkins Campbell
Marjorie Elliott Wilkins Campbell (1901 – November 23, 1986) was a Canadian writer of history and historical fiction. She won two Governor General's Literary Awards for the best works of the year, one of the two 1950 non-fiction awards for The Saskatchewan and the Governor General's Award for Juvenile Fiction in 1954 for The Nor'Westers.[1]
Life
Marjorie Elliott Wilkins was born in London, England, to Mary Eleanor Elliott and William Herbert Wilkins.[2] They emigrated to the Qu'Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan in 1904.[3] Marjorie was educated in Swift Current and Toronto.[4] She married Angus Campbell, a surgeon, in 1931 and continued to work as a writer and editor.
Marjorie Wilkins Campbell began writing in high school for the Swift Current Collegiate Clarion. Prior to publishing novels and biographies focused on Canadian history and exploration, Campbell spent many years as a freelancer and eventually became the editor of Magazine Digest in Montreal and Women's editor of Canadian Magazine.[5] In addition, Campbell published numerous articles in Chatelaine, Saturday Night, and Maclean's.[3]
In 1966, Wilkins Campbell spent nearly four months conducting research in B.C. where she was familiarizing herself with the Fraser River and its surrounding areas, preparing to write a book on explorer; Simon Fraser.[6][7]
In previous years, Wilkins Campbell traveled to various cities throughout North America, Europe and the U.K. researching material for her book, No Compromise, which was published in 1965.[8]
Campbell won multiple awards including a $1000 Canada Council grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1959) [3] in the amount of $4500 towards research for a book on fur trader William McGillivray.[5][9]
She served as a consultant for the Ontario Government regarding the restoration of Fort William between 1971 and 1976.[10] Campbell was also a named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1978.[3][10]
Campbell's final book, a recollection of her mother titled The Silent Song of Mary Eleanor, was published in 1983.[10] She died in Toronto at the Grace Hospital on November 22, 1986 of lung cancer.[10]
Works
- The Soil Is Not Enough (1938)
- The Saskatchewan (1950)
- Ontario (1953)
- The Nor' Westers: The Fight for the Fur Trade (1954)
- The North West Company (Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1957)
- The Face of Canada (1959)
- McGillivray Lord of the Northwest (Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1962)
- No Compromise: The Story of Colonel Baker and the CNIB (1965)
- Push for the Pacific (1968)
- The Savage River: Seventy One Days with Simon Fraser (1968)
- The Fur Trade (1968)
- 54-40 or Fight! (1973)
- Northwest to the Sea: A Biography of William McGillivray (Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1975). This is a revised version of her biography of McGillivray published in 1962.
- The Silent Song of Mary Eleanor (1983)
References
- ^ "Governor General's Literary Awards" [table of winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ^ "CAMPBELL (MARJORIE WILKINS) PAPERS" (PDF). Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Marjorie Wilkins Campbell". Marylynn Scott. The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Marjorie Wilkins Campbell fonds (P128)". McCord Museum (mccord-museum.qc.ca).
- ^ a b "Wins Fellowship". Canadian Women's Press Club. p. 7.
- ^ Gunn, Cynthia (30 September 1966). "Toronto Author Takes To Canoe To Research Simon Fraser Book". Winnipeg Free Press.
- ^ Gunn, Cynthia. "Toronto Author Takes To Canoe To Research Simon Fraser Book" (September 30, 1966) [Textual record]. Dana Porter Library Archives and Special Collection, Series: 4:Biographies of Women, File: Campbell, Marjorie Wilkins, ID: File 140. Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo.
- ^ Gunn, Cynthia. "Toronto Author Takes To Canoe To Research Simon Fraser Book" (September 30, 1966) [Textual record]. Dana Porter Library Archives and Special Collection, Series: 4:Biographies of Women, File: Campbell, Marjorie Wilkins, ID: File 140. Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo.
- ^ "Wins Fellowship" [Textual record]. Dana Porter Library Archives and Special Collection, Series: 4: Biographies of Women, File: Campbell, Marjorie Wilkins, ID: File 140, p. 7. Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo.
- ^ a b c d "Author's books told story of fur trading in Canada". Globe and Mail. Toronto. November 26, 1986. p. A21.
External links
- Campbell, Marjorie Wilkins, 1902–1986 at Library of Congress, with 18 library catalogue records
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- Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West (1937)
- John Murray Gibbon, Canadian Mosaic (1938)
- Laura Salverson, Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter (1939)
- J. F. C. Wright, Slava Bohu (1940)
- Emily Carr, Klee Wyck (1941)
- Bruce Hutchison, The Unknown Country (1942)
- Edgar McInnis, The Unguarded Frontier (1942)
- E. K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry (1943)
- John Robins, The Incomplete Anglers (1943)
- Dorothy Duncan, Partner in Three Worlds (1944)
- Edgar McInnis, The War: Fourth Year (1944)
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- C. P. Stacey, The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 (1948)
- Hugh MacLennan, Cross-country (1949)
- Robert MacGregor Dawson, Democratic Government in Canada (1949)
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- W. L. Morton, The Progressive Party in Canada (1950)
- Frank MacKinnon, The Progressive Party in Canada (1951)
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- Bruce Hutchison, The Incredible Canadian (1952)
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- N. J. Berrill, Sex and the Nature of Things (1953)
- Hugh MacLennan, Thirty and Three (1954)
- Arthur R. M. Lower, This Most Famous Stream (1954)
- N. J. Berrill, Man's Emerging Mind (1955)
- Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain (1955)
- Pierre Berton, The Mysterious North (1956)
- Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict (1956)
- Thomas H. Raddall, The Path of Destiny (1957)
- Bruce Hutchison, Canada: Tomorrow's Giant (1957)
- Pierre Berton, Klondike (1958)
- Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney (1958)
- [No award] (1959)
- Frank Underhill, In Search of Canadian Liberalism (1960)
- T. A. Goudge, The Ascent of Life (1961)
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- Phyllis Grosskurth, John Addington Symonds (1964)
- James Eayrs, In Defence of Canada (1965)
- George Woodcock, The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell (1966)
- Norah Story, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature (1967)
- Mordecai Richler, Hunting Tigers Under Glass (1968)
- [No award] (1969)
- [No award] (1970)
- Pierre Berton, The Last Spike (1971)
- [No award] (1972)
- Michael Bell, Painters in a New Land (1973)
- Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years (1974)
- Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson, Hallowed Walls (1975)
- Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History (1976)
- F. R. Scott, Essays on the Constitution (1977)
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- Maria Tippett, Emily Carr (1979)
- Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn, C.D. Howe (1979)
- Larry Pratt and John Richards, Prairie Capitalism (1979)
- Jeffrey Simpson, Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration (1980)
- George Calef, Caribou and the Barren-Land (1981)
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- Sandra Gwyn, The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1984)
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- Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm (1992)
- Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon (1993)
- John Livingston, Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication (1994)
- Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen (1995)
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- Marq de Villiers, Water (1999)
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- Christie Blatchford, Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army (2008)
- M. G. Vassanji, A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2009)
- Allan Casey, Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada (2010)
- Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life and Times (2011)
- Ross King, Leonardo and the Last Supper (2012)
- Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (2013)
- Michael John Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (2014)
- Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive (2015)
- Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (2016)
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