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Mina Hubbard
1870–1956
An explorer, nurse, and writer, she is best remembered for a 1905 journey through Labrador that helped map the Nascaupee and George River system. Her life story blends endurance, curiosity, and a determination to finish work that tragedy had left undone.
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A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
by Mina Hubbard
About the author
Born in Ontario in 1870, Mina Benson Hubbard worked first as a teacher and later trained as a nurse in New York. There she met journalist and explorer Leonidas Hubbard Jr., whom she married in 1901.
After Leonidas died on a Labrador expedition in 1903, she set out in 1905 to complete the journey he had hoped to make. Traveling with an Indigenous and local expedition team, she crossed the Labrador interior and became known for producing the first accurate map of the Nascaupee and George River route.
She later wrote about the expedition in A Woman’s Way Through Unknown Labrador, a vivid travel narrative that helped secure her place in Canadian exploration history. She spent later years in England and died in 1956.