Jane-Anne Campbell

Jane-Anne Campbell lived with purpose, enormous energy and enthusiasm, and a deep compassion for the people in her life and for the natural world. She died peacefully at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto on September 14, 2026, surrounded by family, six months after a rare angiosarcoma diagnosis. She was 62.

Born in Toronto to the late Donald and Elizabeth Bradbury, Jane-Anne shared her mother’s intense work ethic and dedication to serving others and her father’s curiosity and open-minded, gregarious nature. She attended the Toronto French School and spent her teenage years in Beamsville in the Niagara region. She completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees in nursing at the University of Toronto in 1988, then began her PhD.  Throughout her university education, Jane-Anne worked at Bloorview Children’s Hospital, becoming VP Nursing at age 29. She went on to serve as Director of Planning after the merger that created the Bloorview MacMillan Centre (now Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital).

Jane-Anne  married Glen Campbell in 1999. They adopted three daughters from China: Clara in 2001, Mary in 2003, and Holly in 2007. With the arrival of Clara, Jane-Anne left her career and her studies, putting her full energy into her family. She was a tireless champion for her girls, helping to organize playgroups for other adoptive families, spending mornings at the figure skating rink, weekends at the ski hill and evenings making sure that homework got done. 

Jane-Anne was a woman of rare contrasts: proper but unpretentious, competitive and ambitious, but never particularly concerned about advancing her own interests; warm and encouraging, stubbornly determined yet deeply empathetic. She was kind but fearless --   always ready to speak up to right a wrong, to advocate for those who needed a voice or in defense of the natural world that meant so much to her.  She was at ease paddling her kayak across frigid waters, doing island-to-island long distance swims and embarking on late night hikes through the forest.  She had a keen intelligence and loved to tell a good story. She had an energetic, upbeat presence.  She enjoyed life.

 Her reverence for wildlife was legendary. Whether rescuing injured birds and turtles, slamming on the brakes to move a critter from the road, executing her catch-and-release program for cottage mice, or in various volunteer roles, Jane-Anne was an unwavering practitioner and advocate for conservation and peaceful coexistence with wildlife. She served as a land steward for the Georgian Bay Land Trust, Environment Director for the Sans Souci and Copperhead Association and spent hundreds of hours traversing wetlands and forests around Georgian Bay for the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas.

Jane-Anne will be deeply missed by her husband, Glen; her daughters, Clara, Mary, and Holly; her brother, Michael Bradbury; her nieces Nicole and Sophie Bradbury; and a wide circle of extended family, friends and fellow nature enthusiasts.

A celebration of Jane-Anne’s life will be held on Sunday November 8 (2-5pm) in Toronto at the Bram and  Bluma Appel Salon, 2nd floor, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St. (just north of Bloor St.).  Additional details will be posted here before the event.  In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Birds Canada, the Georgian Bay Land Trust or Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.