Orders, Decorations and Medals

An O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Mrs Colin Campbell, widow of the former Attorney-General of Manitoba

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for 1934, crown reverse inscribed, ‘M. J. B. Campbell’; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, lady officer’s badge, 30 x 30mm., silver and enamel; Coronation 1911, silver (M. J. B. Campbell); Jubilee 1935, silver (M. J. B. Campbell); Coronation 1937, silver, unnamed; Poland, Cross of Merit, 1st Class, civil division, gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘M. J. B. Campbell’, mounted as worn, all but last with ‘bow ribbons’, last with enamel damage; together with a Coronation 1902, bronze, unnamed, contained in a case, with inside of lid inscribed, ‘Minnie J. B. Campbell O.B.E.’, nearly very fine and better (7) £280-320

Minnie Julia Beatrice Buck was born in Palermo, Ontario, and graduated from the Wesleyan Women’s College at Hamilton, Ontario. In 1884 she married Mr Colin H. Campbell. In 1900 he was appointed Attorney-General of Manitoba and was later Minister of Public Works. Retiring from the Government due to ill health in 1913, he died in Winnipeg on 24 October 1914.

She was the first president of the Manitoba chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, having been a member since 1908. Living in Winnipeg for 65 years, she dedicated her life to social welfare. From the early 1900’s she was an active worker for the Red Cross and was active in the foundation of the Y.W.C.A. in Winnipeg in 1906. In recognition of her voluntary public service rendered for over half a century, she was awarded the O.B.E. in 1935. For her war relief services during the Great War she was subsequently awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit. Minnie Campbell, O.B.E., died at the age of 90 years. With a newspaper cutting giving her obituary and with other other copied research.