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Patrick Douglas Baird fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1930-1989.

Reference:

R5346-0-4-E, MG31-C9

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Moving images, Architectural and technical drawings, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

106934

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Patrick Douglas Baird fonds
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Fonds includes:

9 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1930-1989.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

2.6 m of textual records.
3,610 photographs : b&w and col.
2 film reels (5 min).
20 maps.
7 architectural drawings.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of diaries, correspondence and manuscripts on Arctic geography, glaciology, mountain climbing and exploration. Also included is information on gold mining in Sierra Leone and the nature preserve of the Gault Estate on Mont St Hilaire, Québec.

Fonds also consists of photographic material depicts events, activities, places, and individuals associated with the career of Patrick Douglas Baird.

Fonds also includes films shot by Baird about walrus hunting in the Canadian Arctic, 1938-1939.

Fonds consists of seven architectural drawings for a summer house for Mrs. Henry A.C. Jackson at St. Aubert, Quebec and twenty maps relating to various expeditions to Baffin Island undertaken by Patrick Baird from 1933 to 1973.

Provenance:

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Baird, P. D. (Patrick Douglas), 1912-1984
Additional name(s):

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Jackson, A. Y. (Alexander Young), 1882-1974

Jackson, Geneva

Jackson, Henry A.C. 1940-1974
Biography/Administrative history:

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Baird, P. D. (Patrick Douglas), 1912-1984 : Pat Baird, geographer, was born in Newmarket, England, educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at Cambridge University where he received a B.A. and M.A. in Geography. He was engaged in many expeditions to the Canadian Arctic from the J.M. Wordie Expedition in 1934 for Cambridge University, the British Canadian Expedition 1936 to 1939, two expeditions for the Arctic Institute of North America in 1950 and 1953 and numerous other Expeditions to Baffin Island for scientific research and mountain climbing up to 1974. He was instrumental in promoting the establishment of Auyuittuq National Park in Baffin Island. From 1934 to 1936, he served as a geologist at a gold mine for the Sierra Leone Development Company in Africa. During World War Two, he served overseas from 1939 to 1943 rising from the rank of gunner.

In 1944, he returned to Canada and aboard the NASCOPIE made a survey of Inuit settlements in the Eastern Arctic which recommended that the Federal Government greatly increase its responsibilities for education and health. He then trained men in Arctic warfare and with the rank of Lt. Col. was field commander of Operation Muskox in 1946. In 1947, he was appointed Director of the Montreal Office of the Arctic Institute of North America serving until 1954. From 1954 to 1959, he returned to Scotland as a geography professor at the University of Aberdeen. He returned to Canada in 1959 to serve as warden of the Gault Estate at Mont St Hilaire which included responsibility for McGill's Arctic research as well as being a geography professor. In 1970, he was responsible for the Montreal Office of the Arctic Institute of North America until his retirement in 1976.

He was the author of The Polar World, 1964 as well as numerous periodical articles.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The Finding Aid MSS2005 is a descriptive file list. MSS2005 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000554.pdf

Moving images: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level descriptions. (90: Open)

Architectural, technical drawings (Other) Please consult lower level descriptions. (90: Open)

Cartographic material (Other) Please consult lower level descriptions. (90: Open)

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Custodial history:

Received in 1994 from Mrs. Geneva Baird of Manotick, Ontario.
Subject heading:

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James M. Wordie, 1934

Thomas Manning, 1936-1939

Mont-Saint-Hilaire (Québec)

Auyuittuq National Park

Eastern Arctic

Mountain climbing

Glaciology

Nunavut

Gold mining Sierra Leone
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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122-020053-0
122-060195-0
1994/0265
1995-0057 MISA
1995-072 DAP
2613 (1994-12-20)
94-299

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-C9
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG31 C 9] 1--13

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 2005] 147

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: no restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items greater than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Moving images: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holder.
Architectural, technical drawings : Please consult lower level descriptions.
Cartographic material : Please consult lower level descriptions.

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