[2] Originally from Ontario and of Scottish descent, after high school Campbell's grandfather found him a job digging ditches for coaxial cable.

[3] As the city's former chief coroner, his life inspired a popular CBC Television drama called Da Vinci's Inquest.

[4] He was also one of several coroners who dismissed the murders of several indigenous women in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver between 1967 and 1985 as "unnatural and accidental."

[5] On 14 December 2004, Campbell and councillors Jim Green, Raymond Louie and Tim Stevenson announced that they would form an independent caucus within COPE.

[6] In 2005, the moderate group formed the centre-left Vision Vancouver party, but Campbell announced he would not run for re-election.

[7][8] On 2 August 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced Campbell's appointment by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson as a Liberal senator.