Series consists of photographic material which depicts events, activities, places, and individuals associated with the career of Patrick Douglas Baird as follows: military service with the Royal Canadian Artillery, 1939-1947; Director of the Arctic Institute of North America, Montréal, 1947-1954; Resident Field Geographer, University of Aberdeen, 1954-1959; Director of Field Studies in Geography and Manager of the Gault Estate, McGill University, Montréal, Mont St. Hilaire and Schefferville, 1959-1969; Administrative Officer, Arctic Institute of North America, Montréal, 1969-1976.
The following event and activitites are also documented: the Canadian Army's winter training Exercise Lemming, Manitoba, and Northwest Territories, 1944; the Canadian Army's winter training Exercise Polar Bear, British Columbia, 1945; the Canadian Army's winter training Exercise Eskimo, Saskatchewan, 1945; the Canadian Army's winter training Exercise Muskox, Northwest Territories, 1946; the Arctic Institute of North America's glaciological expedition to the Barnes Ice Cap, 1949-1950, and to the Penny Ice Cap, 1953-1954; the Alpine Club of Canada's camps, Baffin Island, 1963, 1963; the Glacier Mapping Symposium, Ottawa, 1965; Patrick Baird's expedition to Baffin Island with the artist A.Y. Jackso, 1965; the Club Alpino Italaino's "terra di Baffin 72" climbing expedition to Baffin Island, 1972.
Activities of Patrick Baird in the following countries and places are documented: Foxe Basin, 1938; England, 1940; Norway, 1948-1955; Alaska, 1948; Baffin Island, 1950; Pangnirtung, 1953; Italy, 1954; Scotland, 1955; Europe, 1955; Isle of Skye, 1956; Cairngorm Mountains, 1956; Ben Macdhui, 1956; Chamonix, 1958; Europe, 1958; Ireland, 1959; Mackenzie River, 1958; Mont St. Hilaire, 1960-1969; Schefferville, 1961; Twin Falls, 1961; Sept-Iles, 1961; Moisie River, 1962; Baie St. Paul, 1962; La Malbaie, 1962; Alberta, 1962; Baffin Island, 1965, 1966; Yukon Territory, 1967; Alaska Highway, 1967; Kazan River, 1968; Knob Lake, 1968-1975; Pond Inlet, 1970; Erik Harbour, 1970; Northwest Territories, 1970; Baffin Island, 1971; Baffin Island, 1972; Padlei, 1972; Baffin Island, 1973; Padlei, 1974; Baffin Island, 1974; Knob Lake, 1976-1985; Okoa Bay, 1981.
The following individuals are documented: Patrick Baird, J.C. Bowen; Jack G. Showler; Edmund Hillary; Camilien Houde; Doug Wilkinson.