Quinte Agricultural Hall of Fame > Dr. D. Ralph Campbell
DR. D. RALPH CAMPBELL
1918-2008
Dr. Campbell was born and raised on the family farm at Foxboro. After farming for a number of years, involved in organizing the Hastings County Farm Radio Forums, and helping found the Foxboro Cooperative, he served in the RAF as a bomber pilot. Ralph then studied at the University of Toronto from 1946-1949 and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford university. Dr. Campbell was a lecturer the Ontario Agricultural College and was head of the Department of Agricultural Economics from 1952-1962. Ralph became an Advisor to the Ford Foundation, an advisor to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, a Rockefeller Foundation Advisor and was President of the University of Manitoba for four years from 1976-1981. He was President of the Agriculture Institute of Canada in 1960 and President of the Canadian Ag Economics Society in 1959. Dr. Campbell authored two books "We Flew By Moonlight", recounting his experiences as a wartime pilot and "From Foxboro, Ontario", which reviewed his long life with emphasis on his early years in a farm community.
In 1986 he was named to the Order of Canada and in 2008 Ralph was inducted into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame. Ralph was always a "people person", a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and friend.
Nominated by the Hastings County Federation of Agriculture
Inducted 2008