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A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (Large Print Edition)

History

Hubbard, Mina Benson

Americas

BiblioLife

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

<p>In 1903 Hubbard's husband, Leonidas, starved to death on his cartographic and ethnographic expedition to Labrador. Hubbard decided to complete her husband's work, becoming a skilled explorer and cartographer in her own right. She set out in July 1905 and with the help of George Elson, a Métis guide who had been employed by her husband on the original trip, and three other guides completed her expedition in record time with significant results, including completing the first accurate map of the Labrador river system, thus correcting the earlier map that had led to her husband's death. Her original photographs and the map are reproduced in this volume.</p>

Biographies & Memoirs

Grace, Sherrill E.

Community & Culture

McGill-Queen's University Press

In 1903 Hubbard's husband, Leonidas, starved to death on his cartographic and ethnographic expedition to Labrador. Hubbard decided to complete her husband's work, becoming a skilled explorer and cartographer in her own right. She set out in July 1905 and with the help of George Elson, a Métis guide who had been employed by her husband on the original trip, and three other guides completed her expedition in record time with significant results, including completing the first accurate map of the Labrador river system, thus correcting the earlier map that had led to her husband's death. Her original photographs and the map are reproduced in this volume.

<p>In 1905 Mina Benson Hubbard became the first white woman to cross Labrador, completing the expedition that had led to her husband's death. The Woman Who Mapped Labrador makes available for the first time the unguarded and personal diary that was the basis for her famous book, A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador. Three specialists have combined their expertise to enhance the richness of this original source. Roberta Buchanan's annotation of Hubbard's expedition diary makes it accessible to contemporary readers. Anne Hart's biography illuminates an Edwardian woman's transformation from teacher, nurse, and devoted wife to courageous explorer and social activist. Bryan Greene's discussion of Hubbard's navigational, cartographic, and topographical techniques shows her to have been a serious explorer. His nineteen newly drawn maps make it possible to follow her journey in detail. In her diary Hubbard's full enthusiasm for the Labrador wilderness shines through her descriptions of the great caribou migration, the Montagnais/Naskapi Indians (Innu), and life at a Hudson's Bay post. She also reveals in frank detail the difficulties of asserting her authority as a female expedition leader and her satisfaction at beating out her male rival, Dillon Wallace.</p>

The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard

Hart, Anne

Buchanan, Roberta

Greene, Bryan

Here, too, I would express my sincere appreciation of the contribution to the book from Mr. Cabot, who, descendent of the ancient explorers, is peculiarly well fitted to speak of Labrador. The great peninsula has been, as he terms it, his "playground," and by canoe in summer or on snowshoes in winter he has travelled thousands of miles in the interior, thus placing himself in closest touch with it.   To Dr. Cluny Macpherson for his generous service I am deeply grateful.   To George Elson for his loyal devotion to Mr. Hubbard and myself my debt of gratitude must ever remain unpaid.   To Dr. James E. C. Sawyer, my beloved pastor, I am indebted for the title of my book.

World

Breakwater Books Ltd.

Nabu Press

Indypublish.Com

Friday morning was warm and bright. It seemed wonderful to be having so much fine weather in Labrador, and not a fly or mosquito as yet. The one nuisance we had met was mice or lemmings. They had been busy with my hat in the night, and when I came to put it on that morning I found there was a hole eaten in the crown and a meal or two taken out of the brim. There seemed to be thousands of them, and they ran squealing about everywhere, great fat fellows, some of them as big as grey squirrels. The ground was so perforated with their holes that it reminded one of a porous plaster.

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A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (Large Print Edition)

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador