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 Andrew Baird
-Andrew Baird was originally from Bacarat, Australia. He was the accountant for the Yukon Gold Company in Dawson.((Walter R. Hamilton, //The Yukon Story,// Vancouver: Mitchell Press Ltd., 1964: 220-21.)) He was first associated with A.N.C. Treadgold in 1909. He was an accountant for many mining companies in the Klondike gold fields and in later years was an accountant for Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp. In 1953, Baird was the president of the Grand Lodge, Yukon Order of Pioneers.((Lewis Green, //The Gold Hustlers// Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1977: 242.)) Baird’s memoirs were privately printed as //Sixty Years on the Klondike// (1965). Baird retired to Vancouver in 1958.((Walter R. Hamilton, //The Yukon Story,// Vancouver: Mitchell Press Ltd., 1964: 220-21.))
+Andrew Baird was born in Bacarat, Australia and headed for the Klondike goldfields in January 1898. He and 350 other Australians set sail for Vancouver aboard the steamer //Miowara.// Baird and a partner he met during the trip transported their two tons of supplies over the White Pass and arrived in Dawson in June. Baird worked on a rich Cheechaco Hill claim and made enough money to acquire an interest in the productive Claim No. 5 above Discovery on Sulphur Creek.(("A Salute to History Hunters from the past." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 3 October 2025.))
+Baird could not work as a miner after losing a leg in a mining accident and he was the chief accountant of a mining company when he became associated with A.N.C. Treadgold in 1909. He was a partner and secretary-treasurer of the mining company Burral and Baird and for a time was manager and assistant treasurer of the New Northwest Corporation dredging company. In 1924 he was the president of the Dawson City Water and Power Company.(("A Salute to History Hunters from the past." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 3 October 2025.)) In later years Baird was an accountant for the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp.((Lewis Green, //The Gold Hustlers.// Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1977: 242.))
+Baird joined the Yukon Order of Pioneers and was the president of the Dawson Lodge Number One in 1931 and president of the Grand Lodge in 1933. He was president of the Dawson Branch of the B.C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines for fifteen years. He was secretary of the Good Samaritan Hospital for ten years. In 1953, he was the recipient of the Queen's Coronation Medal in honour of his community work.(("A Salute to History Hunters from the past." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 3 October 2025.)) Andrew Baird retired to Vancouver in 1958. His memoirs were privately printed as //Sixty Years on the Klondike// (1965).((Walter R. Hamilton, //The Yukon Story.// Vancouver: Mitchell Press Ltd., 1964: 220-21.))