Sir William Campbell died of illness on January 18, 1834.įor more detailed information, visit the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
He retired from the bench in 1829 and became the first judge in Canada to receive a knighthood. In 1825, William became the 6th Chief Justice of Upper Canada. He had his house built in 1822 on a plot of land located at 54 Duke Street at the top of Frederick Street. In 1811, he was commissioned as a judge by the British crown and sent to the town of York in Upper Canada, which had a population of 700 prior to the War of 1812. Sir William rose to become the Attorney General of Cape Breton Island. While there he met and married Hannah Hadley, the daughter of a successful local fisherman. At the end of the war, he was released and sailed with the United Empire Loyalists to Nova Scotia, where he resumed his legal studies to supplement his income. He was part of the British Force that surrendered to the Americans at the siege of Yorktown, Virginia in 1781. He was subsequently sent to America to fight in the Revolutionary War. His instructor passed away, and Sir William volunteered for the 76th Foot, a Highland regiment in the British Army. She served as Senior Advisor to the SLF Board of Directors from 2019 to 2020.William Campbell was born in 1758 in Caithness, Scotland. She is a YWCA Woman of Distinction (2009) and one of the Top Women of Influence in Canada (2012). She was instrumental in launching the UN’s Trust Fund on Violence Against Women. Ilana is a labour and human rights lawyer who, prior to co-founding the SLF, worked for eight years at the United Nations Development Fund for Women, where she first understood the urgency of bringing frontline activists into decision-making positions. The Foundation also led in refraining from bureaucratic harassment of grantees, instead creating a humane Impact Assessment Framework done in consultation with partners.
This community-led work was so effective that Ilana, as Executive Director from 2003 to 2018, together with colleagues, soon built the Foundation into a $10 million a year fund.Īmong her innovations was the Grandmothers Campaign, which enlisted a vibrant worldwide network of activist older women, primarily from Canada, working directly to support African grandmothers.
Unlike many other charities of the time, Ilana and Stephen had deep ties with grassroots organizations in Africa and knew how to build respectful relationships that led to innovative programs on the ground. The rivalry between Canada and the United States in rowing was best. Together, working at her kitchen table, she and Stephen forged a unique, anti-colonial vision of working as supportive partners with African activists, understanding that it was the frontline advocates who must lead the way. The success of Hanlan drew suggestions by editorial writers that he achieve knighthood. In 2003, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis joined with her father, Stephen Lewis, to create a Foundation to work hand-in-hand with Africans struggling against the AIDS pandemic. The order is named for the founder of Lesotho the knighthood is the country’s highest honor.
In 2007, King Letsie III, monarch of the Kingdom of Lesotho (a small mountainous country in Southern Africa) invested Stephen as Knight Commander of the Most Dignified Order of Moshoeshoe. In 2003, Stephen Lewis was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest honor for lifetime achievement. He is the author of the best-selling book, Race Against Time, and he holds 42 honorary doctorates from Canadian and American universities. From 1984 through 1988, he was Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations.įrom 1970-1978, Stephen was leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, during which time he became leader of the Official Opposition. From 1995 to 1999, he was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the organization’s global headquarters in New York. He was the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from June 2001 until the end of 2006. Stephen Lewis’s work with the United Nations spanned more than two decades. He served as a Commissioner on the Global Commission on HIV and the Law. Stephen is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Emeritus Board Member of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Stephen Lewis is the co-founder and board co-chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and he is the co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization.