In 1903, Leonidas Hubbard, a reporter from New York,
came to Labrador to do an expedition for a magazine
he was working for. He wanted to travel where no
white man has ever gone before. Starting in North
West River he wanted to go to Fort Chimo, now
Kuujjuaq. He brought a partner, Dillion Wallace, and
a guide from Hudson Bay, George Elson. He did not
listen to the advice of the local people. His fatal
mistake was made at the beginning of the trip when
they took the wrong river. They had a very difficult | time and had to turn back. Leonidas himself starved
to death before making it back to North West River.
In 1905, both Mina Hubbard, the window of
Leonidas, and Dillion Wallace, the partner of
Leonidas in the first trip, decided to try to
complete this expedition. They did not go together,
since they did not get along because Mina blamed
Wallace for her husbands death. Mina Hubbard was
accompanied by Gilbert Blake, a man from North West
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