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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 River. Wallace did not take a local guide. The race was on. Mina completed the trip long before Wallace.
Plans to make a movie of the Mina Hubbard expedition are underway.
