If you have the name Hugh Craig Campbell, have a Scottish father and are born in Liverpool, when it come to football what chance do you have. And when, having grown up on Merseyside, you in 1909, having been born in 1870 so at the age of almost forty and a Clerk, decide to move with your family to Montreal in Canada, what are the initial and second things you do? The former is join and then preside over the local Sons of Scotland. The latter is in April 1911 become the first President of the Quebec Football Association, the current Federation de Soccer du Quebec, initiating a league and creating the Quebec Cup.

And that would soon lead to more. From the foundation in 1912 of the Dominion of Canada Football Association, now the Canadian Soccer Association, seven of the earliest presidents to 1931 were in order Barter, Watson, Fisher, Guthrie, McNeil, Easton and Russell, with the one missing, the third, for four years from 1915, once more Craig Campbell.

Hugh Craig Campbell, double-Diasporan, would step down from the DCFA presidency in 1919. He was forty-nine, with just a decade more to live in his adopted city and country. He would pass away probably in Westmount still on the island in 1929 and is buried in Mont-Royal Cemetery, joined there seventeen years later in 1946 by his wife, Edith.