Patrick Douglas Baird, 1912-1984
. It was in Baffin Island that Pat Baird first set foot in Canada. He was to return there many times, for he came to love the Arctic, its mountains, snow and ice. . Pat Baird became a well-known public figure in 1945-46, when he participated in the celebrated "Lemming" and "Muskox&quo...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65244 2023-05-15T14:19:15+02:00 Patrick Douglas Baird, 1912-1984 Orvig, Svenn 1984-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65244 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65244/49158 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65244 ARCTIC; Vol. 37 No. 2 (1984): June: 91–194; 193-194 1923-1245 0004-0843 Arctic Institute of North America Biographies Civil servants Expeditions Geographical names Glaciology Logistics Military operations Mountaineering Operation Musk-ox Research Research stations Scientists Canadian Arctic Greenland Baffin Island Nunavut info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion obituary 1984 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:19Z . It was in Baffin Island that Pat Baird first set foot in Canada. He was to return there many times, for he came to love the Arctic, its mountains, snow and ice. . Pat Baird became a well-known public figure in 1945-46, when he participated in the celebrated "Lemming" and "Muskox" military exercises in the Canadian northwest. Because of his experience, he led the main party in Exercise Muskox, an unprecedented automotive journey of 3400 miles around the Canadian Arctic, starting in Churchill and going to Victoria Island, then as far as Coppermine and back to the Peace River country. He did this successfully and well, and did not suffer any accidents or lose any men on his party. Col. Baird's decade of arctic and military experience led to his appointment as chief of the Arctic Section of the Canadian Defence Research Board. A year later, in 1947, he was made Director of the Montreal (head) Office of The Arctic Institute of North America, a post he held until his return to Scotland in 1954. During that time he planned and led two major expeditions to Baffin Island - to the Barnes Icecap region in 1950 and to the Pangnirtung Pass area and the Penny Highland in 1953. On these expeditions, glaciological investigations were undertaken for the first time in Canada's Arctic, and Pat became an authority on mountain glacier research and arctic mountaineering. . On his return to Canada in 1959 Pat Baird was appointed Director of the Gault Estate of McGill University . and Supervisor of Northern Field Studies in the Department of Geography [Schefferville Subarctic Research Station. After his retirement in 1969, Pat Baird continued to travel] . on several subsequent climbing trips to his beloved Baffin Island, where Baird Peninsula is named after him. . Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Institute of North America Arctic Baffin Island Baffin glacier glacier* Greenland musk ox muskox Nunavut Pangnirtung Peace River Subarctic The Arctic Institute Victoria Island victoria island University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Baffin Island Baird Peninsula ENVELOPE(-76.065,-76.065,68.918,68.918) Canada Greenland Nunavut Pangnirtung ENVELOPE(-65.707,-65.707,66.145,66.145) ARCTIC 37 2 |
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. It was in Baffin Island that Pat Baird first set foot in Canada. He was to return there many times, for he came to love the Arctic, its mountains, snow and ice. . Pat Baird became a well-known public figure in 1945-46, when he participated in the celebrated "Lemming" and "Muskox" military exercises in the Canadian northwest. Because of his experience, he led the main party in Exercise Muskox, an unprecedented automotive journey of 3400 miles around the Canadian Arctic, starting in Churchill and going to Victoria Island, then as far as Coppermine and back to the Peace River country. He did this successfully and well, and did not suffer any accidents or lose any men on his party. Col. Baird's decade of arctic and military experience led to his appointment as chief of the Arctic Section of the Canadian Defence Research Board. A year later, in 1947, he was made Director of the Montreal (head) Office of The Arctic Institute of North America, a post he held until his return to Scotland in 1954. During that time he planned and led two major expeditions to Baffin Island - to the Barnes Icecap region in 1950 and to the Pangnirtung Pass area and the Penny Highland in 1953. On these expeditions, glaciological investigations were undertaken for the first time in Canada's Arctic, and Pat became an authority on mountain glacier research and arctic mountaineering. . On his return to Canada in 1959 Pat Baird was appointed Director of the Gault Estate of McGill University . and Supervisor of Northern Field Studies in the Department of Geography [Schefferville Subarctic Research Station. After his retirement in 1969, Pat Baird continued to travel] . on several subsequent climbing trips to his beloved Baffin Island, where Baird Peninsula is named after him. . |
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