James West Davidson, and John Rugge.  Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure, 1988.

“In July 1903 Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. set out to traverse by canoe and portage one of the last blank spots on the map of North America – 550 miles of the subarctic barrens of Labrador in northern Canada.” Hubbard died. His expedition failed. “…Wallace [Hubbard’s partner] resolved, in 1905, to return to Labrador at the head of his own exploring party to try again.” At the very same time, Mina Hubbard, Hubbard’s widow, to redeem her husband’s honor, had also begun an expedition. And the race was on. This is the story of both the 1903 and 1905 expeditions, the latter being “a race unique in the annals of wilderness exploration.”

Dillon Wallace, The Lure of The Labrador Wild. First Edition, 1905.  1990 paperback Ed.

“It was Dillon …

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This is taken From an article appearing on the Field and Stream website, no date given, titled “Quest for The Mother Lode…the lost world of monster brook trout, “ by T. Edward Nickens.

Clutched between Ungava Bay and the North Atlantic Sea, Labrador offers perhaps the largest chunk of terra incognita remaining in North America: a half million square miles of taiga, spruce and tamarack woods, and soaring stone ridges that taper into iceberg- laden seas, three quarters of the province is entirely roadless.”

“When Lee Wulff [who discovered the Minipi in the 1950s] guided Curt Gowdy into the Minipi River basin to film a segment of The American Sportsman, trout anglers in the lower 48 almost swallowed their teeth at the sight of kype-jawed brookies the size of an overnight bag.”

Labrador is a wilderness “more remote than most of Alaska” where “every …

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Commentaries about Labrador’s giant Brook trout have appeared over the years in magazines and books. For example, in McClane’s Standard Fishing Encyclopedia. the author writes about the big brookies of Labrador in the article on Brook trout.

Yet, usually the first question when you mention Labrador, is Where in the world is Labrador?

Mention Labrador without mentioning Canada, and the geographically compromised will say, Oh, down in South America, right?

So here’s a brief answer to this question plus a few words about Labrador itself.

Where in the world is LABRADOR?

A 16th century map shows a land called “Terra del Labrador” with this cryptic note:
This country was discovered by the people of the town of Bristol, and because he who first sighted land was a labourer from the island of the Azores, it was named …

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