Lydia Campbell née Brooks (November 1, 1818 – April 1905[1]), born to an Inuk mother and an English father,[2] was an early diarist in Labrador.[3] She is one of Labrador's best known historical figures and writers, affectionately known as "Aunt Lydia".[4]
Lydia Campbell | |
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| Born | Lydia Brooks November 1, 1818 Hamilton Inlet, Gross Water (Groswater Bay), Labrador |
| Died | April 1905 (aged 86) Mulligan River, Labrador |
| Spouse |
William Ambrose Blake
(m. 1834)Daniel Campbell (date missing) |
| Parents |
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She was born in Hamilton Inlet, Gross Water (Groswater Bay), Labrador, to Ambrose Brooks, a native of England who was employed with the Hudson's Bay Company, and Susan, his Inuk wife. She was home-schooled by her father. She was married twice: first to William Ambrose Blake in 1834, with whom she had five children, and later to Daniel Campbell with whom she had eight children. In 1894, Arthur Charles Waghorne, a clergyman, submitted her autobiography for publication; it appeared as Sketches of Labrador Life in the St John's Evening Herald. Campbell died in Mulligan River at the age of 86.[3]
Her great niece, Elizabeth Goudie, wrote Woman of Labrador, published in 1973.[5] In 2001, the journal of her son, Thomas L. Blake (who died in 1935), was published as a book.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Campbell, Lydia | Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites". inuit.uqam.ca. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
- ^ Light, Beth; Parr. Canadian Women on the Move vol. 2. New Hogtown Press and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. pp. 273–275.
- ^ a b Hart, Anne (1994). "Lydia Brooks". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XIII (1901–1910) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^ Stopp, Marianne (June 27, 2011). "I, old Lydia Campbell: a Labrador Woman of National Historic Significance" (PDF). Memorial University. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ Hulan, Renée (2002). Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 83. ISBN 0-7735-6944-8. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ "Blake, Thomas L." International Laboratory for Research on Images of the North, Winter and the Arctic. Université du Québec à Montréal.
Further reading
edit- Lydia Campbell (biography), published by Université du Québec à Montréal
- Thomas L. Blake (biography), published by Université du Québec à Montréal