A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador - Softcover

Hubbard, Mina Benson; Grace, Sherrill E.; Grace, Sherrill E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773527400 ISBN 13: 9780773527409

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Sherrill E. Grace is professor, English, University of British Columbia, and the author of Inventing Tom Thomson and Canada and the Idea of North. She is currently working as a consultant on a film about Mina Benson Hubbard.

Review

"A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador is worthy of the same attention given to prominent exploration and travel writers on the Canadian North and should be recognized as part of the cannon of Victorian travel-writing and women's autobiography. Grace's introduction is beautifully written and provides an impressive discussion of Hubbard's photographs and a wonderful analysis of the text." Carolyn Podruchny, Western Michigan University

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0773527400
• ISBN 13: 9780773527409
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 354