The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard.(Book review)

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THE WOMAN WHO MAPPED LABRADOR: THE LIFE AND EXPEDITION DIARY OF MINA HUBBARD. By ROBERTA BUCHANAN, ANNE HART and BRYAN GREENE. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-7735-2924-1. 506 p., maps, b & w illus., bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$49.95.

Between June and August 1905, Mina Benson Hubbard and four indigenous guides undertook an arduous canoeing expedition from the community of North West River to the Hudson's Bay Company post at Ungava Bay by way of the Naskaupi and George rivers in Labrador. In doing so, Hubbard sought to map hitherto unknown ...

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