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The woman who mapped Labrador : the life and expedition diary of Mina Hubbard
\"As Anne Hart's biography shows, Mina Benson Hubbard's life (1870-1956) was an adventure of frequent reinvention. Raised on an Ontario pioneer farm, Mina Benson was a shy nurse in New York when she married Leonidas Hubbard, an ambitious American journalist. Following his death during his 1903 attempt to cross Labrador, the devoted housewife set out to complete his expedition. While in England to finish her now-famous book, she met and married Harold Ellis, the scion of a landed North Country family. Mina became an enthralling public speaker, part of intellectual London circles, and involved with women's suffrage and other burning issues of the day.\"
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Great Heart
In July 1903 Leonidas Hubbard set out to explore the uncharted interior of Labrador by canoe, accompanied by Dillon Wallace, his best friend, and George Elson, a M?s guide. Bad luck and bad judgment led the expedition into disaster and the party was forced to turn back. Hubbard died of starvation just thirty miles from camp.
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Lost Country: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland, 1843-1933, by Patrick O'Flaherty. In this narrative history of the province, the author relates how Newfoundland advanced along a thorny path to dominion status and towards nationhood, a path it slipped off in the gloomy 1930s when it relinquished self-government in favour of what amounted to direct rule from London. Treasure Island Revisited, by Jack Fitzgerald. The story of Capt. Keating of the Cocos Island treasure is known throughout the world as The Lost Treasure of Lima, which was the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. The author recounts the story of Capt. John Keating, a Newfoundlander, who was given a map by an old pirate named Thompson and went on to Cocos Island to find a treasure trove. The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard, by Mina Hubbard. This volume makes Hubbard's expedition diary available for the first time and provides a biography of her extraordinary life. In the diary, an unguarded Hubbard vividly describes the Labrador wilderness, the great caribou migration and life at Hudson's Bay.
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Explore Canada's early adventurers at the library
Through the use of court transcripts, archival research and material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Peter Edwards, an investigative journalist, writes an intriguing re- evaluation of Canada's most notorious crime. Night Justice: The True Story of the Black Donnellys reveals that the origins of these grisly murders had their roots in feuds that began in Ireland. Political manoeuvring to win votes by some big names in national politics and an American frontier style of justice resulted in not a single conviction despite having eyewitness testimony. Adventure is not just for men. Heart So Hungry: the Extraordinary Expedition of Mina Hubbard into the Labrador Wilderness by Randall Silvis is a terrific adventure story involving a very determined woman. In 1903, Leonidas Hubbard died of starvation in a failed attempt to map the interior of Labrador. Hubbard's wife Mina was heartbroken.
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Profiting from times past
They raced through the Labrador and Quebec wilderness to the mouth of the George River on Ungava Bay - a race, as history relates, that Hubbard won by more than two weeks. I'll be playing a non-speaking role, just one of the crowd of locals who've come to gawk at the adventurous outsiders and wonder if they'll die miserably like their predecessor Leonidas Hubbard - the friend of one, the husband of the other - who starved to death on the Susan River two years earlier. The Innu, whose ancestors crossed the wilderness over and over again for generations before any Europeans ever saw the forests of Labrador, are not yet slated to be involved in the 2005 celebrations - partly because those who would be involved do not see them as relevant to themselves and partly because the organizers have only invited Innu participation as an apparent afterthought.
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Ready for my close-up
The people who plan to film the story of Mina Hubbard's 1905 journey across Labrador and northern Quebec need about 60 voiceless extras for their movie -- Innu, Inuit and settlers -- to fill the background of their own historical panorama. Whenever it happens it's something many in Labrador are beginning to keenly anticipate. Films have been made in this region before, but never a full-length feature that's intended for widespread theatrical distribution. Many are looking forward to the arrival of the production crews and the hiring of the extras, not only for the money all that will bring, but also for the sheer joy of telling a Labrador story and having the world hear it. Some aren't excited. One such is Phyllis Pritchard, who was at Wednesday night's meeting. The 75-year-old is the daughter of Gilbert Blake, Mina Hubbard's local guide. Pritchard says she and her sisters grew up with her father's stories about his trip with Hubbard. She says she never imagined anyone would take those stories so seriously, or that someone would want to portray her father in a film.
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\HIDDEN COUNTRY\: DISCOVERING MINA BENSON HUBBARD
In 1905 Canadian explorer Mina Benson Hubbard successfully completed an expedition through Labrador that enabled her to map uncharted territory and write about her experiences. Her story of this expedition exists in several forms, including her 1908 autobiography, but this study explores her self-discovery as much as her discovery of unknown Labrador.
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Legion Village brings back Golden Rail Pub
The year 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of [Mina Benson Hubbard]'s incredible trek across Labrador. In 1905 this adventurous woman set out to travel an uncharted region of Labrador, motivated by the desire to protect the name and reputation of her late husband, Leonidas Hubbard, who preceded her in Labrador exploration.
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Adventure becomes journey of self-discovery
The event that was to change her life and take her into one of the world's most hostile and unforgiving areas was a chance encounter with an old issue of National Geographic. It contained excerpts from the diaries of a remarkable woman named Mina Hubbard, a young Canadian widow determined to honour the memory of her husband, Leonidas Hubbard, who had perished of cold and starvation in 1903 during an aborted canoe journey into the uncharted heart of Labrador. Two years after her husband's death, Mina Hubbard successfully completed that journey, travelling with three guides on a wilderness adventure that took her 960 kilometres north from Goose Bay to the shores of Ungava Bay. [Alexandra Pratt] was \"seduced\" by Mina's extraordinary story - a story compelling enough to bring this young English journalist across the ocean to a basement archive at Newfoundland's Memorial University where she confronted the full text of the woman's century-old diary. At first she was scarcely conscious of the compulsion taking hold of her, but she feels now that there was an inevitability in her decision to relive Mina's journey into a mysterious, primeval land. \"It was sometime between her diary in St. John's and travelling to Labrador and meeting the people there that it happened. Certainly by the time I got on the ferry to leave Labrador I knew I was going to do the trek.\" Photo: Southam News / ADVENTURE: Alexandra Pratt is a young British journalist with a zest for adventure, so when she set out by canoe to journey into the unforgiving Labrador wilderness, she saw it initially as the most adventurous experience of her young life. Instead the trek turned into a haunting journey of self-discovery - \"physical, personal, emotional, spiritual, political\" - and her new book about what happened (just published in Canada by Harper Collins) is definitely not the book she originally intended to write. ;
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Labrador trek a journey of self-discovery for author
The event that was to change her life and take her into one of the world's most hostile and unforgiving areas was a chance encounter with an old issue of National Geographic. It contained excerpts from the diaries of a remarkable woman named Mina Hubbard, a young Canadian widow determined to honour the memory of her husband, Leonidas Hubbard, who had perished of cold and starvation in 1903 during an aborted canoe journey into the uncharted heart of Labrador. Two years after her husband's death, Mina Hubbard successfully completed that journey, travelling with three guides on a wilderness adventure that took her 960 kilometres north from Goose Bay to the shores of Ungava Bay. [Alexandra Pratt] was \"seduced\" by Mina's extraordinary story -- a story compelling enough to bring this young English journalist across the ocean to a basement archive at Newfoundland's Memorial University where she confronted the full text of the woman's century-old diary. At first she was scarcely conscious of the compulsion taking hold of her, but she feels now that there was an inevitability in her decision to relive Mina's journey into a mysterious, primeval land. \"It was sometime between her diary in St. John's and travelling to Labrador and meeting the people there that it happened. Certainly by the time I got on the ferry to leave Labrador I knew I was going to do the trek.\" Photo: Southam Newspapers / Pratt surveys the landscape from the banks of the Naskaupi River, in Labrador. ; Photo: Southam Newspapers / British author Alexandra Pratt came face to face with herself while trekking through Labrador. ;
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