Baird

Irene Baird was a British-Canadian author and journalist born in 1901 in Carlisle, England, who immigrated to Canada at age eighteen and married Robert Baird in Vancouver. She is best known for her novel Waste Heritage (1939), which depicts the impacts of the Great Depression, including the 1938 Vancouver Post Office occupation by the unemployed, and she also wrote nonfiction about Canada and its Indigenous peoples. After a career in radio and journalism, she retired to Victoria, British Columbia, where she died in 1981.