B2R by the fire - 'Lure of the Labrador Wild'

It is hard to imagine in this day and age, when we have access to just about everywhere easily in North America, that just over a hundred nears ago there were places within our borders that had yet to be explored.
Matter of fact, before the 1950's very few non-aboriginal people lived in Labrador year round.

In 1900 author Dillon Wallace met  Leonidas Hubbard, who invited him on an expedition to Labrador to explore the area leading up to Lake Michikamau.

The expedition started by taking the wrong river and went down hill from there.

Wallaces style of writing was easy and relaxing, almost like reading and adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
You could even imagine Wallace and Hubbard as Holmes and Watson.

The two explorers.

Up until this expedition Wallace had worked as a lawyer.

This would be the first of 26 books by Wallace, after which Wallace became a writer and explorer for outdoor magazines.

Leonidas died on the expedition, and to Leonidas' wife, Mina, it seemed as if he was being blamed for the failure of the adventure.

When Hubbard planned a second expedition Leonidas' wife announced that she would also lead an expedition giving some redemtion to her husbands memory.

The race became very popular with the media of the day.


Both Expeditions produced books.

The book makes you want to see that part of the world.