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Vol. 6 No 13
The Voice of North Grenville
March 28, 2018
Alf Campbell - friend of the forest Kemptville Drug Mart
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Alf Campbell died on March 11, in his 87th year. Alf didn’t look like a warrior, and he didn’t sound like one either. But, long before the term was used as it is today, Alf Campbell was an EcoWarrior of the highest order. He spent more than half a century in our community, adding to our knowledge of, and appreciation of forests and trees and the plants and their importance in our survival as a people. Inspired by the work of the great godfather of forestry in Ontario, Edmund Zavitz, Alf went to the University of
Toronto’s School of Forestry, and when he graduated, back in 1956, he arrived in Kemptville to begin his life’s work. He and Peg, his wife of 56 years, came here as a young married couple, getting lost in Merrickville and trying to find out where Kemptville was. County Road 43 was just the gravel Hoey Road in those days, and Alf and Peg must have wondered what they were getting into here. He began as an Extension Forester, working both at Limerick Forest and the Ferguson Forest Station north of the Village of Kemptville, as it was then. How different the place was in 1956. Alf
once told me that, when he Alf. Alf was a unique link, an first went to Limerick For- almost circular chain connectest, the trees only came up ing Zavitz, Howard Ferguson to his waist. He could stand and Kemptville. Ferguson, and look out over them, as native of Kemptville, had far as the eye could see. The encouraged Zavitz, who inForest had only been in ex- spired Alf, who came to work istence since 1940, and was in Kemptville at the Forest an attempt to reforest an area Station established in 1945 that had once been cleared and named after Ferguson. He farmland, an area that had embodied a heritage, a desire been devastated by wind and and determination to restore erosion after the tree cover their forests to the people of had been removed. Ontario and to ensure that Alf Campbell worked at the land would always have bringing the trees back, and its protective tree cover and reforestation, a major scheme life-supporting forests. in Ontario since Zavitz had But it was not just as a been encouraged by G. Howard Ferguson in the 1920's and 30's, was a passion for continued on page 2
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