HERBERT E. SAMPSON 1871–1962

Herbert Sampson was born and educated in Toronto and moved to Regina in 1909 where he died on September 16, 1962. He was graduated from University College, University of Toronto in 1893 and received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1896 from Osgonde Hall, Toronto, where he practised for the next thirteen years.

A year after moving to Regina he attended his first camp of the Alpine Club of Canada, in Consolation Valley. From then until 1953 he went to the annual camps in thirty-seven different seasons for his usually rather short vacations. He had climbed about seventy-five peaks, some more than once, in the Canadian Rockies, generally leading a rope and often a party. In 1930-1932 he was President of A.C.C. In 1928 he joined the American Alpine Club. At the A.C.C. camps he was a familiar and always cheery figure. He loved the mountains and those whom he met amongst them and climbed with. He took a very active part at the camps whether around the campfire, taking groups for walks and scrambles or in the actual climbing.

He had a distinguished career as a lawyer, and was Crown prosecutor (K.C. and Q.C.) from 1912 to 1947 in Regina and for a few more years as city prosecutor. He had a remarkable memory and often listened to evidence and cross examination for days at a time and then apparently without notes asked the essential questions which struck directly at the heart of the case.

In civic matters, on the School Board, as a Director of the Y.M.C.A., in various sports, in his church, in artistic circles and in numerous good works he took a constantly active part. He was one of the leading citizens of Regina for much of his more than fifty years there. He had a friendly greeting for all as he walked around town with one of his pet dogs.

His wife died in 1944 and he leaves a married daughter and two sons, one of whom, Alan, is a doctor, practising radiology in Philadelphia.

Henry S. Hall, Jr.