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Marjorie Wilkins Campbell began writing as a teen while she attended Swift Current Collegiate. She went on to free-lance and eventually became the editor of Magazine Digest of Montreal and women’s editor of Canadian Magazine.

In 1966, Wilkins Campbell spent nearly four months conducting research in B.C. where she was familiarizing herself with the Fraser River and its surrounding areas, preparing to write a book on explorer; Simon Fraser.

In previous years, Wilkins Campbell travelled to various cities throughout North America, Europe and the U.K. researching material for her book, No Compromise, which was published in 1965.

For her literary work, she was the rewarded with two Governor General Awards. In 1955 she won the Juvenile Award for The Nor’Westers and 1950 she won the creative non-Fiction Award for her book, The Saskatchewan.

Campbell won multiple awards including a $1000 Canada Council grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship in the amount of $4500 towards research for a book on fur trader William McGillivray.