Christina (Campbell) Reid (1847 - 1933)

Born 2 Jun 1847 in Belfast, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Wife of Duncan Roderick Reid — married 28 Oct 1875 in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Descendants

Died 11 Apr 1933 at age 85 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Biography

Christina was the youngest of 12 children born to Alexander Campbell & Janet McInnis.

Christina (Campbell) Reid was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

She married Duncan Roderick Reid at Prince Edward Island on October 28, 1875. They had 5 children and moved to Vancouver on October 16th, 1884 when it was named Granville and home to only 300 people.

They narrowly escaped the Great Fire of June 1886 by covering themselves with wet blankets in a ditch near their home while the flames passed over them, burning Duncan's hat and coat and foot-wide holes in the blankets. They lost everything except for an iron cooking pot, a silk umbrella, and a varnished sewing machine that was in heavy demand for sewing tents and clothes after the fire.^[1]

“It was on January 13th 1898 that I was elected the first woman school trustee on the Vancouver School Board. An act had just been passed by the Provincial Legislature which permitted women to sit on school boards, and I was asked to offer myself for election. I had been a resident of Vancouver longer than most women, had taken a more or less active part in church, political and civic affairs, and when friends asked me to offer myself I acceded to their request. That the invitation was generally approved of by the electors—men at that time—is proven by the fact that I was elected at the top of the poll. I served two years, but I cannot say that I particularly enjoyed the experience. I had something to do with the obtaining of the Sir William Macdonald endowment for manual training for schools, was among the first advocates for the teaching of domestic science in schools, and with the affiliation of the Vancouver High School” (Cambie and Dunsmuir) “with McGill University, and was appointed a governor of the college.”

During the Great War, Mrs. Reid, then aged between 67 and 71, was president of Ward 3 branch of the Red Cross Society, and herself knitted hundreds of pairs of socks for soldiers. Her daughters state she knitted over four hundred pairs (equal to almost one pair every four days), an achievement surpassed by one person only in Vancouver.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The History of Vancouver's First Letter Carriers. http://bcpostal.ca/Vancouver's-First-Letter-Carriers.html Accessed 9 May 2022.
2. ↑ Matthews, Major James Skitt. Early Vancouver, Vol. 2. Vancouver: City of Vancouver, 2011. https://archives.vancouver.ca/projects/EarlyVan/SearchEarlyVan/Vol2pdf/MatthewsEarlyVancouverVol2_FirstLadySchoolTrustee.pdf Accessed 10 May 2022.

See Also:

• "Canada, Prince Edward Island Baptism Card Index, 1721-1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCXZ-RKZ : 8 March 2021), Christy Campbell, 29 Jun 1847; citing p. 173, volume 2, Belfast , Prince Edward Island, Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,487,752.

• "Canada, Prince Edward Island Marriage Registers, 1832-1888," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBJ-2G13 : 20 February 2021), Duncan Roderick Reid and Christine Campbell, 28 Oct 1875; citing , Prince Edward Island, Canada, Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,630,094.

• "Canada Census, 1901," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHVJ-5PH : 23 February 2021), Christina Reid in household of Duncan R Reid, Burrard, British Columbia, Canada; citing p. 1, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.

• "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27XY-MH2 : 16 March 2018), Christina Reid in entry for Duncan R Reid, 1911; citing Census, Vancouver Sub-Districts 19-50, British Columbia, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,417,662.

• "Canada, British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL5W-B92 : 8 November 2017), Christina Reid, 1933.

• Obituary. The Province. Vancouver, British Columbia. 13 April 1933. page 12. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101555512/obituary-for-christina-reid-aged-85/ Accessed 9 May 2022.

• Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for Christina Campbell Reid (2 Jun 1847–11 Apr 1933), Find A Grave: Memorial #26324424, citing Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada ; Maintained by Islandergirl (contributor 48322933) .