RUSSELL, Norman Campbell Hall (1905-1978), of Winnipeg, Man. was the son of John H.G. Russell, one of the leading architects in Manitoba during the first half of the 20th C. N.C.H. Russell was born in Winnipeg on 2 July 1905 and was encouraged by his father to take up the study of architecture at the University of Manitoba where he graduated in 1931. He was invited to form a partnership with his father, and the new firm of Russell & Russell was later joined by Peter Dobush, a talented young architect in Winnipeg, and the new firm of Russell, Russell & Dobush was active in 1939-40.
After WWII, N.C.H. Russell continued to work under his own name. He was appointed President of the Manitoba Association of Architects in 1957, and was later elected as a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Inst. of Canada in 1967. By 1970 he was working in Calgary, Alta., and he later moved to the Lower Mainland area of British Columbia in 1971. He died at Summerland, B.C. on 7 December 1978 (obituary Winnipeg Free Press, 12 Dec. 1978, 55; biog. and port. R.A.I.C. Journal, xliv, June 1967, 8)