Three individuals, one team to be enshrined Nov. 12
SUMMERSIDE – The P.E.I. Sports Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled its Class of 2016 on Thursday afternoon.

Three individuals – Bill Purcell, Ian (Tex MacDonald) and the late Thane A. Campbell – along with the 1977 P.E.I. Islanders’ senior baseball team will be enshrined at Credit Union Place on Saturday, Nov. 12.

Thane A. Campbell/Curling

Hon. Thane A. Campbell 1895-1978. Portrait drawn by Wayne Wright

Campbell, who was born in Summerside in 1895 and became the 19th premier of Prince Edward Island in 1935, contributed to the sport of curling for nearly 50 years.

He joined the Summerside Curling Club in 1928, and won the club championship in 1935.

Campbell was largely responsible for P.E.I. gaining inclusion in the Macdonald Brier championship for the first time in 1936. Some of his other highlights include helping bring the 1964 Brier to Charlottetown.

Campbell and Harold Gaudet organized “school boy” curling on P.E.I. in 1948, now known as the provincial juniors.

Campbell was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame as a builder in 1974. He passed away in 1978 at the age of 83.

[Campbell was also inducted into the PEI Curling Hall of Fame, in 2007, its inaugural year.]

Click for full story, including bios of the other inductees, in the Journal Pioneer.