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  • Black and white photo of Fred Campling from the neck up, wearing glasses.

    1950s

    Frederic Albert Lindsay Campling

    BASc52

    Spring 2022

    Frederic Campling passed away on Jan. 27, 2022. He was 93. He was predeceased by his wife Joan (Arts49) and his brother, Electrical Engineering Professor Charles Campling. He is survived by his children, Kathleen (Douglas Smyth), Robert (Com79), Jo-Anne Lacroix (NSc80), Nancy (MBA84) (Greg Burton) and Mary (Com86) (David Procter); his grandchildren, Laura, Eric, Bryan, Michael, Michelle, Jeremy Burton (Artsci12), and Joshua Burton (Sc13); and nine great grandchildren.

    In 1951 as a civil engineering summer student, Fred went to Kapuskasing to work on a hydro dam project for Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company Ltd., where he was introduced to the world of pulp and paper. He was hired by the company upon graduation. Fred and Joan made Kapuskasing their home for the next 40 years. Fred retired from Spruce Falls in 1991 as the president and CEO. Retirement years were spent travelling, volunteering, playing golf, skiing, and enjoying his family. He made soup and jam, tended his vegetable and flower gardens, played bridge, and made folk-art birdhouses with hand tools. A lifelong supporter of Queens, Fred will be remembered for a life lived to the fullest, with kindness, understanding, curiosity, and joy.

  • Black and white photo of Kathryn Anne Campbell holding a baby in her lap.

    1970s

    Kathryn Anne Campbell (n矇e Birnie)

    BCom'75, B.Ed'01

    Spring 2022

    Kathryn Anne Campbell passed away on Feb. 14, 2022. She is survived by her husband John David Campbell (Com'75).

    Kathryn and John met during Frosh Week in the fall of 1971 and were married in Theological Hall by Padre Laverty on May 11, 1974. Their time at Queen's remained a beloved touchstone throughout their 50 years together. One infamous story recalled how Kathryn used oil paints to write No John David on the steps of Victoria Hall during a lonely weekend in first year the university had to sandblast the steps to remove her handiwork! This was but one of the many tales from Queen's told to their children Alexandra Edie (Artsci'06), Genevieve Couper (Comp'08), and Suzanne Gouthro.

    Kathryn practised as a chartered accountant for many years in the Toronto, Peterborough, and Ottawa regions. She rose to the position of CFO of the City of Kanata and the City of Gloucester before returning to Queen's to complete her Bachelor of Education.

    Kathryn then went on to have a fulfilling second career teaching high school to developmentally-delayed teenagers in Peterborough. She was born at home on a cold Feb. 14 Valentines Day in 1952 to Pat and Hope Birnie of New Liskeard. As a Valentine's Day baby, the occasion was always special for Kathryn.

    She died at home in Ennismore, Ont., on Valentines Day, surrounded by family and many dozens of flowers, following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. 

    The family are grateful that they were able to toast her 70th birthday together and help her through the final hours of her life by sharing stories, music, laughter, and tears many of which included Queen's memories and connections. She will be dearly missed by John, her daughters, grandchildren, extended family, and many, many friends.

  • 1940s

    Ruth Isabel Brown

    BA49

    Spring 2022

    Ruth Isabel Brown passed away on Dec. 8, 2021. She was 105. She is survived by her nieces, Brenda Brochu, Esther Brown, and Beverley Brown; grandniece Denise Brochu and grandnephew Vincent Brochu and their families. She was predeceased by her parents and brother Bob Brown.

    Ruth was born in Ensleigh, Alta., on Oct. 29, 1916. Her father returned from the First World War only to die in the flu epidemic of 1919. Her mother was forced to move back to her family's farm, near Daysland, east of Camrose. Ruth experienced first-hand the drought and hardship of the Great Depression on a western farm. By the time the Second World War broke out in 1939, she was working for the Alberta Department of Education in Edmonton. She enlisted in the WRENs and served in Scotland as a "captain's writer" attached to H.M.C.S. Naden. It was a transformational experience.

    After discharge she obtained a BA from Queen's, followed by a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto. After graduation, she worked in the field of child welfare in Toronto. She then moved to Ottawa to work in policy for the Department of Health and Welfare, where she was involved with the development of the Canada Health Act and universal medical insurance. Throughout her life she exhibited dignity, exceptional discipline, intelligence, and a profound determination to be independent. She cherished her health, her house, her life, and friends in the Glebe (Ottawa), a parade of cats, an array of newspapers and, paradoxically, ballroom dancing. She was an inspiration to all.

  • 1970s

    Douglas F. Barbour

    PhD76

    Spring 2022

    Douglas F. Barbour passed away on Sept. 25, 2021. He was 81. He is survived by his wife, Sharon; his nephews Greg Barbour (Monica, Anja, Kael) and Jay Barbour (Anne, Gerritt); his godchildren, Annie and Michael Beard (Sanja, Daniel, Lukas); and a wide family of friends and relatives.

    Family, friends, and colleagues of Edmonton poet and critic, Douglas Barbour, are mourning his loss. A professor at the University of Alberta for many years, he was an active member of the Edmonton literary community, supporting local events and poets, and bringing in readers, often putting them up, to share with his community. As co-founder of NeWest Press, he was a supporter of Western Canadian writers; as a poet, he was an ambassador for Canadian poetry in his national and international reading tours. He was in contact with fellow poets around the world until his death.

    In 2003, Douglas was inaugurated into the City of Edmonton Hall of Fame. In 2018, he was given a lifetime achievement award for outstanding contribution to Canadian literature by the Alberta Book Publishers Association. Just recently, the association renamed the speculative fiction award the Douglas Barbour Speculative Fiction Award in recognition of his critical contributions to the field of science fiction and fantasy.

    He is being remembered by many for his generosity, his kindness, and his joyous engagement with life: art, music, poetry, and everyone around him.

  • Black and white photo of Stuart Archibald standing in a school hallway and pointing at a photo on the wall.

    1990s

    Stuart Archibald

    BASc'97

    Spring 2022

    Stuart Archibald passed away on Feb. 27, 2022. He is survived by Janice (Marchand), father to Ian; stepfather of Ann and Greg Folker; his mother, Ruth Ann Harris; siblings, Jon, Wally (Laura Dawson) (Artsci86) and Susan; nephew Graham (Artsci20); and longtime friends Steven Fehr (Artsci84), John Keith (Law 91), and Joan Harcourt, Literary Editor, Queens Quarterly.

    Family, friends and colleagues are gutted by the sudden loss of Stuart. He was a thoughtful person and respected driver of semi-trailers and heavy off-road vehicles from his youth until early February. When not applying knowledge from his Dalhousie University BComm or his time in Goodwin Hall to the petroleum sector or atmospheric gases in Canada and the U.S., he maintained his personal fleet of buggies favouring the W123. Stuarts attention to detail and depth of knowledge about the equipment in his care were unmatched. He maintained his fitness as an avid long-distance cyclist and enjoyed downhill skiing.

  • Photo of Roger Burton Stotts, leaning against a rock, in the early 50s.

    1950s

    Roger Burton Stotts

    BSc53

    Winter 2021

    Roger Burton Stotts was a proud graduate of Queens University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in metallurgical engineering in 1953. In spite of the fact that he went on to earn a Masters of engineering science from the University of Western Ontario (as it was then known) in 1970, his love for and loyalty to Queens was unwavering. He died at his home in Stratford, Ont., in the company of as many members of his family as could be there in these COVID times, including his wife of 68 years, Mary Eleanor (MacDowell) Stotts. A lifelong baseball player, coach, and fan, his final words were Batter up!