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Lydia Campbell
BornLydia Brooks
(1818-11-01)November 1, 1818
Hamilton Inlet, Gross Water (Groswater Bay), Labrador
DiedApril 1905(1905-04-00) (aged 86)
Mulligan River, Labrador
Spouse William Ambrose Blake ​ ​(m. 1834)​ Daniel Campbell ​(date missing)​
Parents
  • Ambrose Brooks (father)
  • Susan (mother)

Lydia Campbell née Brooks (November 1, 1818 – April 1905), born to an Inuk mother and an English father, was an early diarist in Labrador. She is one of Labrador's best known historical figures and writers, affectionately known as "Aunt Lydia".

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.

Her great niece, Elizabeth Goudie, wrote Woman of Labrador, published in 1973. In 2001, the journal of her son, Thomas L. Blake (who died in 1935), was published as a book.

References

  1. "Campbell, Lydia | Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites". inuit.uqam.ca. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  2. Light, Beth; Parr. Canadian Women on the Move vol. 2. New Hogtown Press and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. pp. 273–275.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. Stopp, Marianne (June 27, 2011). "I, old Lydia Campbell: a Labrador Woman of National Historic Significance" (PDF). Memorial University. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
  5. 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.
  6. "Blake, Thomas L." International Laboratory for Research on Images of the North, Winter and the Arctic. Université du Québec à Montréal.

Further reading

  • Lydia Campbell (biography), published by Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Thomas L. Blake (biography), published by Université du Québec à Montréal

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