Charlotte Selina Bompas

Born in 1830, she became the wife of William Carpenter Bompas, later known as the first Bishop of Selkirk in the Yukon. After marrying him, she joined his missionary work in northwestern Canada and spent years traveling and living in demanding conditions far from the world she had known in England.

Her writing is best known through A Heroine of the North: Memoirs of Charlotte Selina Bompas (1830–1917), a book drawn from her journal and letters. Those firsthand accounts helped preserve a picture of missionary life, long journeys, and daily survival in the North.

She died in 1917, and her story has lasted because it combines personal courage with a rare record of life in the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic during the nineteenth century.