Edmund Ernest Campbell died at the Toronto General Hospital on February 1st, 1937, at the age of 56.
Born in Prince Edward Island, he entered McGill University in 1904, after having worked for two years for the Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Co., in their mines at Michel, B.C. At McGill he took the mining engineering course, and graduated B.Sc. in 1908. During the following year he worked at mines in South Dakota, British Columbia, and Ontario, and from 1909 to 1910 he attended the Graduate School at McGill University, specializing in practical geology. His M.Sc. degree was conferred on him in 1911. In 1910 he entered the service of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co., as engineer and surveyor at that company’s mines at Phoenix, RC.
In May, 1911, he was appointed examining engineer for the company, and in 1914 he became superintendent for the company at Valdez, Alaska, where he was in charge of the equipment of the Midas mine, which had been acquired on his recommendation. In 1915 he was appointed superintendent of Granby mines in the Anyox District, B.C., a position which he resigned in 1920 on his appointment as general superintendent of the United Verde Extension Co. in Arizona.
He returned to Canada in 1928, and practised as a consulting engineer, with headquarters in Toronto.
Mr. Campbell was a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and was a Member of Council and Vice-President of that Institute.
He was elected a Member of the Institution in 1917.
Vol. 47, Trans I.M.M. 1937-8, p. 538
