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Hubbard, Mina Benson ___ 1870-1956
___ Canadian ___ nurse writer
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Mina was born in Hamilton Township
on a farm near Bewdley, Ontario, and was the seventh of eight children.
She worked as a teacher then as a nurse. In 1901, she married an American
writer Leonidas Hubbard. In 1903, Leonidas with a friend, Dillon Wallace,
and George Elson, set out on an expedition to a desolate area of Labrador
- stretching nearly 1,000 kilometres from North West River near Goose Bay
to George River Post on Ungava Bay in northern Quebec - that had never been
described or mapped. However, early on in the expedition, the team went
along the wrong river and got lost. Leonidas died of starvation, but Wallace
and Elson were eventually rescued. Wallace published an account of the journey
which criticised Leonidas. In 1905, with the help of Elson and several others
hired by Elson, Mina herself undertook a similar expedition. It was a success,
for she came back with the first maps of the Naskaupi and George River valleys,
along with notes on the flora and fauna of Labrador. Some time later, while
in England she met and, in 1908, married Harold Ellis. Thereafter, she remained
in England and became a celebrated public speaker. She was also involved
with women's suffrage. The couple divorced in 1926. In 1956, she was killed
in the most dramatic way, by a train on railway tracks in Coulsdon, south
of London, England. Confusingly, there are two books about her expedition,
one - 'The Woman Who Mapped Labrador' - contains her diary, but this one
is not available as an etext. However, 'A Woman's Way through Unknown Labrador'
is available as an etext, and this, apparently, contains extracts of her
husband's diary.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1905 ___ exploration weather nature
WEB TEXT LINKS
A
Woman's Way through Unknown Labrador
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Memorial
University of Newfoundland
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Woman Who Mapped Labrador:
The Life And Expedition Diary Of Mina Hubbard
December 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |