Difference between revisions of "Isobel Gunn"
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| + | 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). | ||
| + | ==Further Reading/Research== | ||
| − | + | * http://www.hbcheritage.ca/hbcheritage/history/people/women/isobelgunn | |
| + | * http://www.telefilm.ca/en/catalogues/production/orkney-lad-story-isabel-gunn | ||
| + | * http://canlit.ca/reviews/crossing_the_bay | ||
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Revision as of 16:01, 19 January 2014
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).
