Early life The fourth child of Thomas Edward Merrett, banker, and his wife, Katherine Stuart Campbell, Merrett's childhood summers were spent in
Métis-sur-Mer. He attended
Selwyn House School in
Westmount,
Quebec, and
Ashbury College,
Ottawa,
Ontario.
Marriage and family Campbell Merrett married Hazel Howard, one of four daughters of Judge Eratus Edwin Howard and his wife Evalyn Peverley, in 1937. His two sons – Timothy Howard Merrett, professor of computer science at McGill, and
Brian Merrett, photographer – live in Montreal and North Hatley.
Education Merrett graduated in 1931 from the School of
Architecture at
McGill University and subsequently did formative work traveling on scholarship in Europe. He did post-graduate studies in
London,
England, resulting in a certificate in Town Planning from the
University of London in 1934. In 1944 and 1945 he was the Town Planning Director for the City of
Saint John,
New Brunswick, following which he joined
Ernest Isbell Barott to form Barott, Marshall, Montgomery and Merrett, where he worked until his retirement in 1977. His projects included the town plan of
Pointe Claire, Quebec, as well as buildings for regional school boards, universities and pharmaceutical companies. His real joy came from the many expansion projects at Montreal's
Royal Victoria Hospital and much of the modern skyline of that institution can be attributed to him. ==See also==