Andrew Browning Baird (1855-1940)

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Born at Motherwell, Ontario on 6 October 1855, the son of Charles and Agnes (Browning) Baird. He studied at Upper Canada College and at the Universities of Toronto (BA 1877), Edinburgh (BD 1881), Leibzig (Germany), and Knox College, Toronto (DD). He married Penelope Campbell Cook of Galt, Ontario.

He became a Presbyterian Minister in 1881 then moved to Western Canada, stopping briefly in Winnipeg on his way to Edmonton. After 1887 he taught Church History at Manitoba College. He was President of the Historical Society from 1893 to 1895, the Manitoba Horticultural Society from 1896 to 1899 and, in 1916-17 was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. He was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Manitoba in 1922.

He had three daughters and one son as a result of his 1903 marriage to E. J. Grant (?-1936). His son was killed in World War One.

Baird died at Winnipeg on 22 September 1940. His extensive papers are held at the University of Winnipeg Archives, with additional papers at the Archives of Manitoba.

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Memories of Fort Ellice
Manitoba History, Number 54, February 2007.

More information:

Andrew Baird of Manitoba College by Reverend John A. M. Edwards, University of Winnipeg Press, 1972.

Pioneers of Manitoba by Robert Harvey (1970).

Sources:

“Free Press Necrology Files”, Winnipeg Elite Study, G. Friesen Fonds, Mss 154, Box 15, File 16, University of Manitoba Archives]

Profile revised: 26 May 2009

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