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Mina Hubbard
1870–1956
Best known for a daring 1905 expedition through Labrador, this Canadian explorer turned grief into determination and helped map a region that was still poorly understood by outsiders. She also wrote vividly about the journey, leaving behind a record of endurance, skill, and resolve.
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A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
by Mina Hubbard
About the author
Born in Ontario in 1870, she worked as a teacher and later trained as a nurse in New York. After marrying journalist and explorer Leonidas Hubbard in 1901, her life changed dramatically when he died during a Labrador expedition in 1903.
In 1905, she organized and led her own expedition to complete the work he had begun. Traveling through Labrador with Indigenous and local guides, she became the first white woman to travel into that backcountry and helped produce an accurate map of the Naskaupi and George River systems.
She later wrote A Woman’s Way Through Unknown Labrador, a firsthand account that secured her place in exploration history. She spent later years in England, where she died in 1956.