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11 February 2025

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Annie M Campbell was born on 29 November 1877 in Brant, Ontario to James Campbell (1852-1883) & Sarah C Taylor (b 1857). Annie had one sister, Margaret (Maggie) Maud (b 1880).

Annie married Herbert Hamilton Smith on 3 August 1904 in Brant, Ontario. Herbert was born on 18 November 1873 in Scotland, Oakland, Brant Co, Ontario to James Hamilton Smith (1815-1895) & Sarah Malcolm (1831-1910). Herbert grew up in Oakland, Ontario but the couple moved to Saskatoon after their marriage. Herbert was an inspector, later superintendent, of public schools for Saskatoon. They lived at 620 Spadina Crescent around 1916 and then 803 Temperance St. They left Saskatoon about 1924 for Vancouver, British Columbia where they remained until their deaths. Herbert died on 9 January 1940 and Annie died on 19 August 1954.

David Deloss Campbell was born on 8 August 1882 in Mount Pleasant, Norfolk, Ontario to James Campbell (1852-1883) & Sarah C Taylor (b 1857).

 In the acquirement of his education David D. Campbell attended the rural schools in the vicinity of the home farm and was a student in the public schools of Mount Pleasant, Ontario, later graduating from high-school at Brantford. Upon the completion of his preliminary education he took up the study of salesmanship and afterward was in the brokerage business in Toronto for a year. For five years he was in the life insurance business in Ontario, and in September, 1908, he came to Saskatoon and became associated with the Monarch Life Assurance Company as a salesman. In 1913 he was made manager for northern Saskatchewan. The territory has recently been divided and he is now manager of the Central Division of the Monarch Life Assurance Company. There is no phase of the business with which he is not familiar and he is discharging the many important duties of his office with efficiency. He has nine men under his supervision and every detail of the business receives his personal attention. Mr. Campbell is ambitious, resolute and energetic and whatever he undertakes, whether in business or other connections, is carried forward to successful completion. For some time he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1913 he operated four hundred and eighty acres of well improved land and made a specialty of breeding and raising pure bred Holstein cattle. He received a diploma for the best pure-bred dairy animal, which was awarded by the Saskatchewan Cattle Breeders Association. In the fall of 1913 Mr. Campbell disposed of his land and has since devoted his entire time and attention to the insurance business.

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David married Elizabeth (Betty) Gertrude Houlding on 14 June 1905/6 (there are two records) at Brant, Ontario. Betty was born on 19 November 1883 in Brantford, Ontario to William Houlding (1843-1914) & Mary Jane Fawcett (1850-1928). David & Betty had three sons, James “Ross” (1909-1981), William Colin (b 1911) & John (b 1913). The family lived at 430 10th St E until the 1950’s and then at 613 Dufferin Ave. David became a Justice of the Peace in 1928 and remained so until his death on 7 December 1970.

Margaret Kathleen Houlding was born in 1915 to Gilbert Edgar Houlding (1880-1929) & Margaret Maud Campbell (1880-1966). Gilbert’s sister was Elizabeth (Betty) Gertrude Houlding, David Deloss Campbell’s wife. Margaret worked as a stenographer for her uncle by marriage (D D Campbell) in 1935 but no further trace of her has been found.

Thomas Preston Houlding was born in 1913 in Saskatoon to Charles Elmo Houlding (1884-1945) & Emma Anna Alice McKinnon (1890-1925). Charles Elmo Houlding was the cousin of Betty Houlding. Thomas was an engineer associated with the Francois Cementation Co based in Bentley, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. He travelled to the UK several times during the 1930’s and to Ghana at least once during this period. He married Juanita ? and lived in Ottawa, Ontario in 1968.

Their family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title 3rd Ave Campbell/Houlding/Smith Tree.

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