User:HowardCampbell

Today as I write this communication ( May 05 2012 ) I am 67 years old,retired living in Tsawwassen,British Columbia,Canada.I am located on the web at www.panoramio.com/user/249085.I was born March 14 1945 in Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada to parents Earl Warren Campbell and Eileen Campbell.I am one of five children,Albert,Myself,Lenna,Sheila and Cran (see photo).I have one son Rory ( wife Arlene ) and three grandchildren Melissa,Allison and Aidan.My grandparents were William Warren Campbell and Phoebe Alice Tolman of Hillspring,Alberta,Canada.My grandfather William Warren Campbell was born August 03 1871 in Garfield,Utah.When he was 13 years old he started working for the Union Pacific Railroad.He also herded sheep along the Grand Canyon.In 1897 he got a job with Sheepman,William Tolman whose daughter became my grandmother,Phoebe Alice Tolman.My grandfather was with William Tolman ( DiamondField Jack ) during the sheep and cattleman's war in Idaho.It was during this time he met my grandmother.My grandfather started to court my grandmother and they were married on April 17 1900.They decided to take the sheep camp wagon and start for Cardston,Alberta,Canada.On the way it seemed like there were a thousand Indians,some times my grandfather was away from camp to get horses.That was when the Indians would come into camp to bother my grandmother.She had my uncle Edward in a baby carriage,the squaws wanted to take him out of the carriage.Grandmother always carried a six shooter she got out from under the pillow and started shooting into the air.My grandparents arrived in Cardston in the fall of 1906 and my grandfather started to work as a operator of the Card Estate in Cardston until 1907.My grandfather left the Cardston job and went to work for William Tolman freighting lumber from the Henry Hansen Saw Mill at Waterton Lakes.In 1909 my grandfather bought 1/4 section of land on the east shore of Strawberry Lake south of Hill Spring.In 1910 my father Earl Warren Campbell was the first baby boy born in Hill Spring,Alberta.In 1918 my grandfather bought 1/2 section of land on the north side of Strawberry Lake.In 1919 the great drought began.There was no feed in the country.All the animals died.They lost the farm.Later they bought another 1/2 section of land west of Hill Spring on the Waterton River and lived there for six years.In 1917 my grandmother Phoebe Alice Tolman took a nursing course in the Cardston School of Nursing.Grandmother served her nursing career night and day bringing a great many babies into the world,while raising her own family of nine children.Grandmother died on January 30 1936 and grandfather died on February 19 1939.My father Earl Warren Campbell left Hill Spring in the fall of 1941 with my uncle George Campbell,coming to Vancouver,British Columbia.In the spring of 1942 they joined the army.Injured and discharged the same year.My father got married to my mother,Eileen Crandell in April of 1942.My brother,Albert Campbell was the first born February 1944.My father went into the real estate buisness in 1946 opening his own office in 1949.