- Person
- ca.1870-1982
Captain Charles Wesley Baird, master mariner and businessman, was born circa 1870 in Great Village, NS to John William Baird (1834-ca.1917) and Susan Bigney (1841-1897). Charles owned several sailing schooners including Peaceland, Newburgh, and American Team and was captain of the tugboats J.A. Mumford and Gypsum King. The tugboat would take 3 or 4 barges loaded with gypsum from NS to New York, USA. He married Hannah Eugenie Stoddard (ca.1870-1933) in Mount Denson, NS in 1890, then moved to Windsor, NS, circa 1900. Hannah opened the family home as a boarding house circa 1911. Hannah and Charles had seven children.