Harold Laird

Prince Edward Island

The Province of Prince Edward Island - the Garden of the Gulf - is a province noted far and wide for her good - farms and good farmers, farmers who not only take a pride in their accomplishments as farmers but who also take pride in the maintenance of their neat and tidy farmsteads. Small wonder, then, that the Island province acquired a title she so richly deserves.

The late Harold Laird of Kensington was but one of the many good farmers who helped the Island to establish her agricultural industry as a source of livestock of outstanding quality.

The Laird herd was well known on the Maritime exhibition circuit with Mr. Laird being regarded as a breeder and exhibitor of some of the finest Guernsey cattle ever developed in Atlantic Canada. This fact was recognized by the Canadian Guernsey Breeders Association which elevated Mr. Laird to the presidency of that organization.

Mr. Laird, who graduated from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1914, enjoyed the distinction of belonging to one of the most distinguished classes ever to graduate from that institution, for it was a class which made a tremendous contribution to the agricultural economy -- not only that of the Maritimes but that of Canada.

No member of the class made more of a contribution than Harold Laird -a good farmer, an honourable man of fine character, and a respected Christian gentleman in every sense of the word.