Ellis, Mina A.
Ellis, Mina A.
Canadian explorer and author. Born in Bewdly, Ontario, Canada; graduated from the Brooklyn (New York) Training School for Nurses; married Leonidas Hubbard (a journalist and explorer), in 1901.
Superintendent of the Virginia Hospital in Richmond, Mina Ellis married Leonidas Hubbard, a journalist and explorer, in 1901; he perished in Labrador two years later. Intent on completing her husband's work, Ellis organized an expedition which in 1905 successfully crossed the northeastern part of the Labrador Peninsula; in doing so, she became the first white person to cross the Great Divide between the Naskaupi and George Rivers. On her return home, Ellis provided an account of the expedition to the American Geographical Society. A Woman's Way through Unknown Labrador was published in 1908.