Halder Kirby (1864–July 12, 1924) was a Canadian ice hockey player, doctor and druggist. He was a co-founder of the Ottawa Hockey Club, later to become the Ottawa Senators. He played with the team from 1883 until 1894. His brother Chauncey Kirby also played for Ottawa.
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Kirby was born in Ottawa in 1864, the third of six children born to Thomas H. and Mary Kirby, Irish immigrants to Canada. There were three boys, Chauncey, Halder and Richmond and three girls, Elizabeth, Emma and Laura. Thomas is listed in the 1872 census as a bank manager, and in the 1881 census as a city foreman. Halder Kirby is listed in the Ottawa Directory of 1889-90 as a 'druggist' with 'Kirby Brothers' along with Richard Kirby.
Halder Kirby helped found the Ottawa HC in 1883. He played for Ottawa in the inaugural Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC) season of 1886–87. When the club returned to the AHAC in 1890–91 he played one game for the team before playing two full seasons from 1891 until 1893. He played one final game in 1894. He later was the team doctor during the Stanley Cup victories of 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906.