Yukon who is who

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Andrew Baird

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.¹⁾

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 1909.²⁾ He was an accountant for many mining companies in the Klondike gold fields and in later years was an accountant for the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp. In 1953, Baird was the president of the Grand Lodge, Yukon Order of Pioneers.³⁾ His memoirs were privately printed as Sixty Years on the Klondike (1965). Andrew Baird retired to Vancouver in 1958.⁴⁾

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“A Salute to History Hunters from the past.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 3 October 2025.

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Lewis Green, The Gold Hustlers Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1977: 242.

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Walter R. Hamilton, The Yukon Story, Vancouver: Mitchell Press Ltd., 1964: 220-21.