Lydia Campbell Explained

Lydia Campbell (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]

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]

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  1. Web site: Campbell, Lydia Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites. 2020-11-29. inuit.uqam.ca.
  2. Book: Canadian Women on the Move vol. 2. Light. Beth. Parr. New Hogtown Press and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. 273–275.
  3. 6582 . Lydia Brooks . Hart, Anne . 13.
  4. Web site: I, old Lydia Campbell: a Labrador Woman of National Historic Significance . Memorial University . Stopp . Marianne . June 27, 2011 . March 29, 2013.
  5. Book: Hulan, Renée . Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture . registration . 83 . 2002 . McGill-Queen's University Press . 0-7735-6944-8 . March 29, 2013.
  6. Web site: Blake, Thomas L. . International Laboratory for Research on Images of the North, Winter and the Arctic . Université du Québec à Montréal.