Jean Baird

Jean Baird has been a professor, magazine publisher, consultant for non-profit organizations, and creative director of Canada Book Week for the Writers’ Trust of Canada. She is co-founder of the Al Purdy A-frame Association, which transformed the Purdys’ famous A-frame in Ameliasburgh, Ontario into a writers’ residence.

Recordings

Jean Baird tells the story of the baseball

Baird, Jean and George Bowering. “The Story of the Baseball Story.” Interview by Karis Shearer. 7 April, 2023. The SoundBox Collection. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca

Collector and bibliographer Jean Baird tells Karis Shearer the story of the baseball that she donated to the Baird-Bowering fonds at UBC Okanagan Special Collections and Archives..

Bibliography

Bowering, George and Jean Baird. The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning. Vintage, 2011.

“UBC Okanagan benefits from generous literary contribution: Baird and Bowering donate to special collections and humanities lab.” UBC Okanagan. 7 December, 2022. Available online: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2022/12/07/ubc-okanagan-benefits-from-generous-literary-contribution/

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The SoundBox collection is digitized, archived, and remediated on the traditional and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. The collection encompasses the thoughts and work of voices recorded across so-called British Columbia and so-called Canada, including on the traditional and unceded territories of the Syilx Okanagan Nation, Secwépemc, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Located on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. The collection is housed at The University of British Columbia (Okanagan) and loved by The AMP Lab.

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Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Recordings

Jean Baird tells the story of the baseball

Bibliography

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