Isobel Gunn
From QueerBio.com
Country
Canada
Birth - Death
1780 - 1861
Occupation
Explorer
Description
Employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, noted for having passed herself as a man (John Fubbister), thereby becoming, not just a pioneer of feminism, but the first European woman to travel to Rupert's Land, now part of Western Canada. Only became known as a woman after she gave birth at Pembina, North West Territories, during an expedition, which startled her co-workers. She was renamed Mary Fubbister, and sent back to Albany, New York and eventually back to her home in the Orkneys. Her life story was made into a documentary film, 'Orkney Lad (The): The Story of Isabel Gunn' (2001).
